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| Aug. 6 |
Port of Oakland |
Port to eliminate 100 jobs The Port of Oakland is cutting about 15% of all positions, in its biggest reduction in force in recent memory
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| Jul.20 |
San Jose |
Unemployment rises in Silicon Valley Unemployment increased in June to a combined 6.1%, up from 5.6%, even though the high-tech hub has added more jobs
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| Jul.19 |
East Bay |
East Bay lost greatest number of jobs N. California has been more insulated from the job declines than Southern. San Jose and San Francisco have moved into neutral mode
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| Jul.2 |
Oakland |
Dozens laid off from Children's Hospital
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| Jun.27 |
Mountain View |
Intuit to slice workforce by 575 jobs
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| Jun.4 |
Port of Oakland |
Slowing economy forces port job cuts
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| Apr.15 |
Livermore Lab |
Lab To Layoff 500 More Workers Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in recent months it has already shed some 900 jobs. The cuts are driven by declining federal funding
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| Apr.7 |
AMD |
AMD Lowers Sales Outlook, Plans Job Cuts |
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| Apr.4 |
Google |
Biggest purge in Google's history, 300 cut |
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| Mar.20 |
eBay |
eBay cuts 125 jobs
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Visa Soars In Largest-Ever IPO
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| Mar.14 |
Bay Area |
1,600 Bay Area teachers losing their jobs The California Teachers Association: more than 1,600 teachers across the nine counties will be getting notices that they may be losing their...
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| Mar.10 |
San Francisco |
Hundreds Teachers Getting Layoff Notices |
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| Mar.7 |
SJ Mercury News |
Mercury News Lays Off 34
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| Feb.19 |
SJ Mercury News |
Papers seek buyouts to cut costs The company that operates SJ Mercury News, Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times may resort to layoffs
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| Feb.15 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo laying off 490 workers in California
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| Jan.29 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo to lay off 1,000. Profit Drops 23%
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| Jan.22 |
Concord |
Chevron notifies 76 employees of layoffs
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| Jan.21 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo expected to cut hundreds of jobs
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| Jan.18 |
Livermore Lab |
Lab to lay off more workers this year
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| Jan.15 |
Santa Clara |
Applied Materials to Cut 1,000 Jobs
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| Dec.13 |
Palm |
Troubled Palm pares staff to cut expenses |
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Transport 'sabotage' hits France
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| Nov.13 |
Livermore Lab |
Lab to cut jobs because of rising costs Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory plans to cut about 500 jobs because of costs stemming from a changeover in management
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Pleasanton |
E-Loan to cut 410 jobs |
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| Aug.7 |
Sun |
Sun Microsystems to Reduce Work Force |
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| Jun.19 |
SJ Mercury News |
Paper To Cut 17% Of News Staff
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| May.19 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle to cut 25% of jobs in newsroom 80 reporters, photographers, copy editors, as well as 20 employees in management positions are expected to be laid off by end of the summer
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| May.16 |
Gap |
Layoffs Could Number In Hundreds |
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| May.3 |
Gap |
Plans to reduce workforce |
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Airbus to cut 10,000 jobs
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| Oct.5 |
San Pablo |
Pink Slips Go Out To 300 Hospital Workers |
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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
| Most of the job cuts will come from the management, marketing and information technology ranks. Market share stolen by smaller rival AMD
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| Sep.1 |
Intel |
Intel May Announce Up To 20,000 Layoffs |
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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
| The cuts, over the next six months, will cost from $340 million to $500 million over the next
several quarters
The plan includes selling real estate and exiting leases.
It will save from $480 million to $590 million.
Chief executive McNealy had argued against more drastic work force reductions
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| Apr.5 |
San Jose |
Troubled Calpine To Sell Plants, Cut Staff |
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| Apr.4 |
Oakland |
Mother's Cookies crumbling |
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| Feb.9 |
Oracle |
Oracle laying off 2,000 employees The software maker warned they would eliminate overlapping jobs following their takeover of Siebel Systems
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| Feb.2 |
Redwood City |
Layoffs at Electronic Arts as new consoles emerge |
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| Oct.6 |
Hayward |
Good Guys to close stores |
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| Jul.19 |
HP |
Hewlett-Packard cuts 14,500 staff| HP is to lay off about 10% of its workers over the next 18 months as part of its long-awaited restructuring | |
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New Harry Potter book hits shops
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| Jun.9 |
San Francisco |
Two Bakery Plants to Close |
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| May.21 |
San Jose City Hall |
City Police Face Layoffs |
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HP |
15,000 could lose jobs in current quarter |
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| Apr.30 |
Milpitas |
Solectron to slash 3,500 jobs to cut costs |
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Woman struck by chair suing Rangers
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| Jan.15 |
San Jose |
Jobless Rate Drops in Tech Sector |
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| Jan.14 |
Pleasanton |
Oracle to fire 5,000| The job cuts outlined represent a 9% reduction from the 55,000 employees on the 2 companies' combined payrolls | |
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SF City Hall |
115 city workers to lose their jobs |
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| Dec.13 |
Pleasanton |
Pleasanton Wary of PeopleSoft Deal |
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| Nov.23 |
HP |
$200 million hit for staff reductions |
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| Sep.10 |
OAK |
Alaska Air shuts base, 340 laid off |
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| Sep.8 |
San Jose Downtown |
Medical Center announced closure |
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Phone Equipment Allegedly Vandalized
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| May.14 |
San Jose |
Rocket motor plant to close |
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| May.12 |
West Contra Costa |
350 teachers to lose their jobs |
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| Apr.2 |
Sun |
Sun settles with Microsoft, cuts 3,300 job| Struggling server maker reached a sweeping, $1.6 billion settlement and plans to cooperate with its longtime nemesis | |
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| Mar.23 |
Richmond |
City Hall may loose 300 jobs |
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| Feb.28 |
SF City Hall |
215 positions eliminated |
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| Nov.15 |
San Jose |
Silicon Valley still losing tech jobs |
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| Nov.14 |
Adobe |
3% of work force laid off |
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| Sep.18 |
Sun |
Sun to cut another 1,080 jobs |
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| Sep.10 |
San Francisco |
Levi Strauss to eliminate up to 650 jobs |
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| Sep.4 |
Pleasanton |
PeopleSoft foresees up to 1,000 job cuts |
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| Aug.27 |
Mountain View |
Silicon Graphics cuts 600 more jobs |
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| Jul.22 |
Siebel |
490 workers cut |
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| Jul.10 |
San Francisco |
KQED plans severe cuts |
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| Jun.10 |
Pleasanton |
Safeway to cut 940 office jobs |
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| May.22 |
Mountain View |
Silicon Graphics to Cut 400 Jobs |
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| May.20 |
HP |
Jobs cut as earnings beat expectations |
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| May.15 |
Oakland |
Hundreds of Jobs Axed from Schools |
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| May.1 |
Oakland |
ANG Newspapers lays off 49 employees |
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| Apr.11 |
BART |
Plan to eliminate 181 jobs, increase fares |
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| Mar.20 |
Milpitas |
Solectron to cut 12,000 jobs
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| Mar.18 |
SF Chronicle |
Possible job cuts discussed |
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| Mar.17 |
Santa Clara |
Applied Materials to lay off 14% |
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| Mar.10 |
Oakland |
District to layoff hundreds of teachers The troubled School District voted to send about 1,000 district employees a warning that they may be laid off
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| Mar.4 |
San Jose |
County to lay off 437 employees |
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| Feb.27 |
Walnut Creek |
Longs Drug firing 170 employees |
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| Feb.21 |
San Francisco |
Examiner lays off staff; plans to be free 40 people lost their jobs. The smaller, free paper will continue with about 15 reporters, editors and photographers
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Palo Alto |
Agilent to cut 4,000 more jobs Maker of test and measurement equipment, will cut 11% of its work force, after posting a wider quarter loss
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AOL TW Posts Loss of Nearly $100 Billion
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| Jan.17 |
Oakland City Hall |
Fire Department Reduces Staff |
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| Jan.14 |
San Jose |
3 Kmarts to close |
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| Nov.19 |
Concord |
B of A Slashes more than 200 Jobs |
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| Nov.14 |
AMD |
Chip-maker to cut 2,000 jobs |
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| Nov.9 |
San Jose |
Silicon Valley's Jobless Rate 7.9% |
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| Nov.7 |
AMD |
AMD plans layoffs, will take large charge
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| Nov.4 |
Santa Clara |
Appl. Materials to cut 800 Bay Area Jobs |
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| Oct.21 |
San Francisco |
United reservation centers shut down
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| Oct.17 |
Sun |
Sun posts $111M loss, to cut 4,400 jobs
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Dow closed at 7,286
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| Sep.25 |
HP |
HP to cut additional 1,800 jobs
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| Sep.17 |
Schwab |
Schwab to cut 10% of staff
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| Sep.5 |
Santa Clara |
SONICblue cuts 25% work force |
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| Sep.3 |
Napster |
Napster as Company Folds
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| Jul.17 |
Siebel |
Siebel cutting 1,100 jobs; profits plunge |
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| Jul.16 |
Intel |
4,000 jobs trimmed Chip-making giant posted disappointing second-quarter earnings. Most of the reductions will be made through attrition
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Bush wants new laws on corporate abuse
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| Jun.24 |
Sun |
Layoffs allegedly favored foreign workers |
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| May.7 |
HP |
Merger Layoffs Will Hit At Least 15,000 CEO Carly Fiorina says she will try to keep the lid on layoffs
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| Mar.12 |
San Francisco |
NextCard fires 546 workers |
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| Mar.1 |
Albany |
Teachers to layoff |
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| Jan.24 |
San Jose |
JDS cuts 2,000 jobs, posts loss |
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| Jan.22 |
Mountain View |
Microsoft eliminates UltimateTV division |
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| Jan.16 |
Milpitas |
LSI Logic will cut 1,400 jobs |
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| Jan.3 |
San Francisco |
Providian to cut 800 jobs Credit card issuer will cut a 6% of its work force, to make the troubled company more efficient
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| Jan.2 |
San Jose |
Pakistani technology office to leave |
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| Dec.28 |
Oracle |
Up to 850 workers to be fired
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ExciteAtHome will cease in February
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| Nov.27 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle to cut 220 jobs
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| Nov.15 |
Palo Alto |
Agilent to cut 4,000 more jobs
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Yahoo |
Yahoo to cut 400 jobs
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| Nov.1 |
San Jose |
BEA Systems layoffs 300 |
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| Oct.29 |
Redwood City |
Openwave to cut 300 jobs |
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iPod: New digital music player
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| Oct.15 |
Pleasanton |
Commerce One to cut 1,300 jobs
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| Oct.5 |
Sun |
Sun cut 9% of work force
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| Sep.28 |
San Jose |
Atmel to cut 2,500 jobs |
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Wall Street reopens, Stocks plummet
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| Aug.20 |
Palo Alto |
Agilent cutting 4,000 jobs |
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| Jul.26 |
San Jose |
JDS to cut 7,000 additional jobs
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HP |
HP cutting 6,000 jobs Hewlett-Packard Co. lowered its sales forecasts yet again and is slashing 6% of work force
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| Jul.9 |
Foster City |
Webvan closes, lay off 2,000 Online grocer would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It never came close to making money
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| May.17 |
Pleasanton |
Commerce One Cuts 10% Jobs |
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| May.7 |
3Com |
3Com cuts 3,000 jobs |
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| Apr.18 |
HP |
HP to cut 3,000 jobs
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| Apr.11 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo cutting 12% work force |
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PG&E files for bankruptcy
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| Apr.2 |
Mountain View |
Ariba to cut 1/3 of workforce |
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| Mar.22 |
Schwab |
Schwab plans to cut 3,400 jobs |
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| Mar.9 |
Cisco |
Cisco cut 8,000 jobs Stock price plunged to a 52-week low dropping 10%
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William Hewlett dead at 87
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