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| Jun. 24 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area home prices continue steep fall
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| Jun. 22 |
San Francisco |
Exodus of S.F.'s middle class
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| Jun. 18 |
Contra Costa County |
43.3% of resold homes foreclosed
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| May.28 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area home prices plummet 20.2% Nationwide prices of single-family homes fell 14.1 percent in March nationwide compared with a year ago
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| May.20 |
San Jose City Hall |
McKesson Sued On Prices
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San Jose |
Silicon Valley janitors strike| Janitors at some of technology and biotechnology companies will go out on strike, having dismissed a contract offer from cleaning companies | | |
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| May.16 |
Napa |
Pioneering winemaker Mondavi dies Pioneering vintner Robert Mondavi, who helped put Californian Cabernets and Chardonnays on the world's map, has died at the age of 94
| Mondavi died peacefully at his Napa Valley home. Governor Schwarzenegger said he was 'a true California legend'
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| May.13 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area Gas Price Hits $4.02 A Gallon
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| Apr.30 |
Genentech |
Bad news on cancer drug Rituxan |
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| Apr.29 |
San Francisco |
Home prices down 17% in February |
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San Francisco |
Average Gas Price Reaches $4 A Gallon| The average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline in San Francisco is marking a record-setting price for the city | |
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| Apr.24 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo-Google Alliance Probed |
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Ship Pilot Charged With Lying In Spill Probe
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| Apr.17 |
San Francisco |
Bay Home Prices Fall 16%
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IMF head gives food price warning
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| Apr.1 |
Oakland Downtown |
Luxury condos sell at a discount |
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| Mar.25 |
SF Downtown |
Supe Looks To Curb Business Energy Use |
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Bay Area |
Bay Area home prices drop record 13.2% |
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| Mar.21 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area Nurses Launch 10-Day Strike| Thousands of nurses who work at hospitals affiliated with Sutter Health have gone on strike for the third time since October | |
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| Mar.9 |
Contra Costa County |
Evictions becoming common
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| Mar.7 |
SJ Mercury News |
Mercury News Lays Off 34 |
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| Mar.6 |
Google |
Pentagon bans Google map-makers
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| Feb.26 |
Google |
Google showing signs of slowing down |
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| Feb.22 |
Millbrae |
Workers Strike At Convalescent Hospital |
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| Feb.20 |
San Francisco |
Bankruptcy for Sharper Image| The retail chain known for selling expensive gadgets filed for bankruptcy protection, saying it plans to sell off stores and inventory | |
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| Feb.19 |
SJ Mercury News |
Papers seek buyouts to cut costs
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| Feb.14 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area home sales fall to 20-year-low
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| Feb.7 |
San Carlos |
Firm fined after worker's death |
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| Feb.6 |
Cisco |
Shares Sink on Forecast |
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| Jan.31 |
Google |
Disappointing 4Q
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| Jan.30 |
SF City Hall |
Restaurants asked to ban trans fats
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| Jan.22 |
Contra Costa County |
Bay Area foreclosures rose 482.5% 4,573 in the fourth quarter, compared with 785 a year ago. Contra Costa County up 533.3%. Alameda County 514.4%
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| Jan.21 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo expected to cut hundreds of jobs |
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World markets plunge on U.S. fears
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| Jan.18 |
Livermore Lab |
Lab to lay off more workers this year |
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| Jan.17 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area home sales fall to 20-year low
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| Jan.15 |
Intel |
Wall Street punishes Intel on 4Q results |
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| Jan.8 |
San Francisco |
PG&E's blacked-out is 10-year record An estimated 1.9 million to 2.1 million customers lost electricity after the storm's howling winds and driving rain
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| Dec.20 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area Home Sales Fall 36% The Bay Area housing market showed no signs of recovery in November, as sales fell to a nearly 2-decade low
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| Dec.13 |
Oakland |
Nurses Strike For 2nd Time In 2 Months |
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| Dec.6 |
San Francisco |
Test in S.F. finds lead in lots of toys |
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| Dec.5 |
Genentech |
FDA Panel Rejects Avastin, stock drops |
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San Jose |
Second Brocade exec convicted |
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| Nov.13 |
Livermore Lab |
Lab to cut jobs because of rising costs
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| Oct.21 |
San Francisco |
SF Gas Prices Highest In Country |
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| Oct.9 |
San Ramon |
Chevron Forecasts 3Q Earnings Will Drop |
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| Oct.6 |
Oakland Downtown |
'Crown Jewel' Of Redevelopment In Limbo |
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| Sep.28 |
San Francisco |
Nurses authorize N. California strike |
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Apple |
iPhone warning proves true |
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| Sep.24 |
SF Downtown |
Security Guards Go On Strike |
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Design Picked For Transbay Terminal
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| Sep.19 |
Contra Costa County |
County has most foreclosure |
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World markets fall after US losses
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| Aug.7 |
San Francisco |
CEO Convicted In Brocade Stock Trial A former chief executive Gregory Reyes was convicted of defrauding investors in a stock options backdating scheme
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| Jul.24 |
Apple |
iPhone launch falls short, stock falls |
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| Jul.23 |
Oakland |
Garbage Talks Round Has No Agreement |
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| Jul.6 |
Alameda County |
Garbage Piling Up As Lockout Continues |
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| Jul.2 |
Alameda County |
County Garbage Workers Locked Out Waste Management has told 500 sanitary workers not to show up. Trash collectors were locked out, as negotiations remain deadlocked
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| Jun.19 |
SJ Mercury News |
Paper To Cut 17% Of News Staff |
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| Jun.18 |
80 |
I-80 Tops List Of Most Congested |
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| Jun.14 |
Contra Costa County |
Homes Sales Fall To 12-Year Low |
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| May.30 |
San Jose |
Firm Sued Over CIA Torture Flights |
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| May.29 |
Google |
FTC reviews into Google-DoubleClick deal |
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| May.19 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle to cut 25% of jobs in newsroom
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| May.15 |
San Jose |
Gas prices for super unleaded close $4
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| Apr.24 |
Apple |
Ex-execs in SEC sights |
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| Apr.17 |
Mountain View |
Last-minute tax users swamp Intuit
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Google To Buy DoubleClick For $3.1B
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| Apr.10 |
Bay Bridge |
Bridge To Be Closed On Labor Day |
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| Mar.28 |
South of Market |
Gas Reaches $4 A Gallon At Shell Station
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| Mar.27 |
SF City Hall |
S.F. Board Bans Plastic Grocery Bags
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| Mar.15 |
Contra Costa County |
Bay Area Home Sales Continue To Drop |
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| Jan.19 |
Alameda |
Problem Shuts Ferry Service |
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Trade to top China-Africa summit
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| Oct.24 |
Alameda County |
Garbage Strike Looms |
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| Oct.17 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area Home Prices Down The median price for a home in the was $611,000 in September, 1.5% less than in August
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| Sep.22 |
HP |
CEO Offers Apology; Chair Resigns Now Mark Hurd announced that the fallout over the scandal also appeared to take down 2 senior HP employees
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| Sep.5 |
Intel |
10,500 Layoffs Announced Semiconductor giant is laying off employees as part of a massive restructuring effort to reverse sinking profits
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| Aug.24 |
Apple |
Apple Recalling 1.8m Laptops |
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| Aug.3 |
Apple |
Apple Warns Some Profits May Be Erased |
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| Jul.5 |
San Francisco |
Apple sued over stock options 2 lawsuits have been filed against its current and former officers and directors relating to stock options grants
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Google goes to Congress
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| May.31 |
Sun |
Sun to Cut Up to 5,000 Jobs Sun Microsystems planned to reduce 37,500-person work force by 11% to 13% to return to
consistent profitability
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| May.12 |
San Francisco |
Questions Surround Concrete Supplier |
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| May.8 |
Mountain View |
SGI files for chapter 11 bankruptcy |
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Oil breaks through record $75
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| Feb.23 |
Concord |
2-Day Hospital Strike Begins |
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| Feb.9 |
Oracle |
Oracle laying off 2,000 employees
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Disney buys Pixar in $7.4bn deal
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| Jan.19 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area Home Sales Decline In December |
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| Dec.20 |
San Jose |
Calpine Corp. Files For Bankruptcy Struggling power generator filed for bankruptcy protection as it grapples with more than $17 billion in debt
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| Sep.13 |
Berkeley |
Strikers Set Up Pickets At Hospitals |
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| Sep.9 |
Western Addition |
New Central Freeway Opens
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| Jul.19 |
HP |
Hewlett-Packard cuts 14,500 staff
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New Harry Potter book hits shops
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| Jun.22 |
BART |
Workers Vote To Authorize Strike |
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| Jun.15 |
Emeryville |
Chiron Warns on Fewer Flu Vaccines |
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G8 ministers back Africa debt deal
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| May.5 |
Walnut Creek |
Report Blames Pipeline Company |
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Cargo Handlers Accused of Stealing
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| Apr.6 |
Bay Bridge |
Welders: New Bridge Unsafe The FBI is investigating disturbing claims that the new span being built is riddled with defective welds
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| Mar.28 |
San Jose |
Woman Files Lawsuit Over Finger in Chili |
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| Jan.26 |
Emeryville |
Chiron's 2004 income falls dramatically |
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SF City Hall |
City considering fee on grocery bags |
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| Jan.19 |
eBay |
Stock slides 11.7% |
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| Jan.14 |
Pleasanton |
Oracle to fire 5,000
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| Oct.11 |
eBay |
Software glitch disrupts PayPal service |
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| Oct.5 |
Emeryville |
Flu maker Chiron slashes profit outlook |
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| Sep.29 |
San Francisco |
Hotel workers begin two-week strike Cooks, housekeepers, bellboys at 4 hotels began a noisy action that could spread to other venues and discourage visitors
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| Sep.2 |
Intel |
Financial forecast lowered for 3rd quarter |
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| Aug.23 |
San Pablo |
Tribe scales back plan to build casino |
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| Aug.16 |
Bay Bridge |
Bay Area Might Be Stuck with Bridge Bill The state blames the upscale signature design for more than half of the cost overrun
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| Aug.12 |
HP |
3rd-quarter earnings below expectations |
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| Aug.4 |
Google |
Possible securities violations disclosed
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| Aug.1 |
Apple |
CEO Jobs Says Has Cancer Surgery |
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| Jun.8 |
SF Downtown |
150 protesters held at biotech conference |
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| May.27 |
Bay Bridge |
Bridge bid comes in $1 billion over target |
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| Feb.10 |
Oracle |
DOJ recommends blocking PeopleSoft bid |
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| Jan.28 |
Alamo |
Workers Protest at Home of Safeway CEO |
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| Jan.4 |
East San Jose |
Beef bone recall |
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| Dec.23 |
San Francisco |
Delayed Response Worsened Outage |
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| |
Iraq tenders 'only for US allies'
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| May.5 |
3Com |
3Com moving to Massachusetts |
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| Feb.21 |
Palo Alto |
Agilent to cut 4,000 more jobs |
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| Sep.1 |
Golden Gate Bridge |
$5 toll to cross span |
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| |
Dow saw its second-biggest gain ever
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| Jul.16 |
Intel |
4,000 jobs trimmed
|
| Jun.3 |
Napster |
Napster files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Industry heavyweight Bertelsmann AG follows through on a plan to take over what's left of the Internet music-swapping service
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| |
CEO claims victory in merger vote
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| Jan.3 |
San Francisco |
Providian to cut 800 jobs |
|
|
| Dec.4 |
Redwood City |
ExciteAtHome will cease in February |
|
| |
iPod: New digital music player
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| Jul.26 |
HP |
HP cutting 6,000 jobs
|
| |
PG&E files for bankruptcy
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| Mar.9 |
Cisco |
Cisco cut 8,000 jobs
|
|
| Nov.21 |
San Francisco |
Examiner ends after 113 years 220 San Francisco Examiner workers faced a new era
|
| May.14 |
SF Chronicle |
Sale of Chronicle turns into 'nightmare' Clint Reilly's antitrust suit to stop Hearst from buying the Chronicle and selling Examiner has turned into a soap opera
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| |
'I love you' virus disrupts computers
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| Feb.7 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo, eBay crippled by hackers |
|
| |
Y2K bug fails to bite
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