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| May. 8 |
Houston |
Enron boss Skilling set to have sentence reduced| The former chief executive of Enron could be released from prison nearly a decade earlier than expected | |
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| Feb.28 |
Chicago |
Groupon founder fired as shares dive The founder and chief executive of Groupon, Andrew Mason, has been ousted after the online voucher firm posted another quarterly loss
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| Feb.27 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple boss laments share price fall Tim Cook has acknowledged shareholder unease over the technology giant's falling share price, but said the company was working on a pipeline...
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| Feb.18 |
Los Angeles |
Lakers owner Jerry Buss dies at 80 The owner of basketball team the Los Angeles Lakers has died at the age of 80, his assistant has confirmed
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| Jan.3 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Google chairman Schmidt to visit N. Korea Google chairman Eric Schmidt will be traveling to North Korea with former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson
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| Dec.12 |
Miami |
Deported McAfee lands back in US The software tycoon John McAfee has arrived in the United States after being escorted to the airport in Guatemala City and deported by Guate...
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| Oct.16 |
Manhattan |
Citigroup's boss Pandit resigns Citigroup chief executive Vikram Pandit has surprised Wall Street by resigning with immediate effect. He is being replaced by Michael Corbat
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| Oct.15 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo appoints Google executive Yahoo has appointed Google executive Henrique de Castro as its next chief operating officer, the second big name it has hired from its rival...
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| Sep.4 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Facebook boss to hold on to stock Mark Zuckerberg has said that he will not sell any of his shares in Facebook for at least one year in a bid to shore up investor confidence
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| Jul.27 |
Seattle |
Tech titan backs gay marriage law Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com and his wife are donating $2.5m to defend a gay marriage law passed in the US state of Washington
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| Jul.16 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo names Google exec as new boss Technology firm Yahoo has appointed leading Google executive Marissa Mayer as its next chief executive
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| May.19 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries sweetheart
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| May.13 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo CEO Thompson quits his post The chief executive of computer firm Yahoo has stepped down, amid accusations that a fake computer science degree was included on his CV
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| Mar.14 |
New York |
Goldman boss defends its ethics
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| Mar.6 |
Houston |
Stanford convicted of $7bn fraud
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| Jan.23 |
Canada |
Blackberry-maker CEOs step down  | Blackberry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has said its co-chief executives Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have stepped down in a shake-up | |
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| Jan.17 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo founder Jerry Yang resigns
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| Jan.4 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo names PayPal exec as CEO
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| Dec.26 |
Connecticut |
Fire kills ad executive's girls and parents
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| Nov.8 |
New York |
Rajaratnam to pay record $92.8m
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| Oct.10 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Jobs 'died of respiratory arrest'
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| Aug.24 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Steve Jobs quits as Apple chief  | Apple founder Steve Jobs has resigned as chief executive of the technology giant and will be replaced by its chief operating officer Tim Cook. The Silicon Valley legend, who underwent a liver transplant following cancer, said he coul... | |
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| Jan.20 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Schmidt to step down as Google CEO Eric Schmidt will step down from his role as CEO in April and be replaced by co-founder Larry Page. Schmidt will stay on as executive chairman
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| Dec.11 |
Manhattan |
Madoff's son found hanged in NY| Mark Madoff, 46, one of convicted US fraudster Bernard Madoff's sons has committed suicide in his apartment | |
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| Mar.29 |
Detroit |
GM chairman to leave car maker| The chief executive of struggling General Motors - Rick Wagoner - has agreed to step down immediately at the request of the White House | |
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| Mar.16 |
Washington |
Wolfowitz to run World Bank President Bush has nominated US Deputy Defense Secretary as the next head of the World Bank
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| Sep.17 |
New York |
$140m NYSE chief Grasso resigns A special board meeting called to address the furor over CEO's pay and retirement package
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| Dec.6 |
Washington |
Treasury chief O'Neill, Lindsey resigned Both men were asked to resign by the White House, continuing the house cleaning of the Bush's economic team
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| Jul.8 |
U.S. Congress |
Bush wants new laws on corporate abuse Former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers and ex-CFO Scott Sullivan take Fifth on Capitol Hill
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| Jan.25 |
Texas |
Former Enron VP commits suicide John C. Baxter discovered inside a vehicle. A suicide note was found at the scene
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| Jan.14 |
Seattle |
Microsoft CEO Gates Steps Down Bill Gates is handing the reins to his former Harvard classmate, Steve Ballmer, the company's president
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