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| Jan.1 |
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Bush adviser target of vandalism
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| Jan.9 |
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Macworld Expo |
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| Jan.11 |
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HP profits down |
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| Jan.12 |
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William Hewlett dead at 87| He was an engineer who co-founded Hewlett-Packard Co. in a garage in 1938 and pioneered Silicon Valley | |
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| Jan.16 |
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Intel beats expectations |
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| Jan.17 |
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Loss worse than expecting |
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| Jan.18 |
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Sun meet expectations |
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| Jan.23 |
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Sun, Microsoft settle Java suit |
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| Jan.27 |
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HP to Cut 2% of Jobs |
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| Jan.29 |
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Agile merges with Ariba |
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| Feb.13 |
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Applied Materials beat expectations |
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| Feb.15 |
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HP meets lowered expectations |
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| Feb.22 |
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Sun lowers 3rd-quarter earnings |
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| Feb.26 |
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Sub-$1000 Unix workstation |
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| Mar.7 |
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Yahoo! CEO to step down CEO Koogle, 49, will stay on as chairman. 1st-quarter earnings will come short of expectations
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| Mar.8 |
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Intel to cut 5,000 jobs |
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Loudcloud lowers IPO price |
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| Mar.13 |
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Guard Killed in Jewelry Robbery
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| Mar.18 |
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AltaVista to add online newsstand |
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| Mar.21 |
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3Com loss worse than expected |
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| Mar.26 |
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Microsoft new lab |
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| Apr.2 |
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Ariba to cut 1/3 of workforce
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| Apr.4 |
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$20 Million Gift
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| Apr.11 |
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Yahoo cutting 12% work force
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Yahoo! expands porn business |
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| Apr.13 |
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Yahoo takes adult merchandise off Company will remove pornographic products from its shopping, auctions and classifieds
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| Apr.17 |
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Yahoo! names CEO Veteran Warner Bros. executive Terry S. Semel named as new chairman and CEO
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Intel net income drop 80%
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| Apr.18 |
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HP to cut 3,000 jobs Hewlett-Packard lowered earnings forecasts again cutting up to 3,000 management jobs or 3.5%
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Apple returns to profitability
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| Apr.19 |
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Sun earnings fall 73% |
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| Apr.20 |
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Ariba Loss Widens |
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| Apr.23 |
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Intel Launches Pentium 4 Chip Processor has 1.7 GHz. The price is $352
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| Apr.27 |
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Yahoo to stay independent |
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| May.1 |
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Apple unveils new iBook laptop |
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| May.7 |
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3Com cuts 3,000 jobs
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| May.8 |
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Nat. Semiconductor cut 1,100 jobs |
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| May.11 |
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Intel Science Fair |
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| May.13 |
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AMD introduces new mobile chips |
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| May.17 |
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Palm Slashes Forecast |
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| May.19 |
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Online Luring
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| May.21 |
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To phase out old style of monitors |
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| May.24 |
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Covad shows $1.4 billion loss
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G. Moore steps down from board
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| May.29 |
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Sun Microsystems lowers forecasts Revenue in fourth quarter is expected to be between $3.8 billion and $4 billion. Sun to concentrate on Fortune 500 companies
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| Jun.1 |
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Palm to cut jobs, names new COO |
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| Jun.5 |
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Covad finds new CEO |
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| Jun.8 |
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Juniper Networks below expect. |
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| Jun.11 |
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Film student gunned down
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| Jun.12 |
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SONICblue cut jobs by 30% |
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| Jun.13 |
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Integrated Device to cut 900 jobs |
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| Jun.21 |
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Bluesman John Lee Hooker dies
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| Jun.26 |
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3Com loses $518 million |
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| Jun.29 |
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Workers asked to take pay cuts |
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| Jul.2 |
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Fastest Chips
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| Jul.3 |
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No more Power Mac G4 Cubes
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| Jul.5 |
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AMD fall well short of earnings
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| Jul.9 |
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Motorcycle slams into van. 2 dead |
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| Jul.11 |
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Earnings edge forecast, shares rise
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| Jul.12 |
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Profits fall 92% |
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| Jul.17 |
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Intel beats expectations In the 3-month period it had a net profit of $196 million
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Molecular computers
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Apple beats expectations |
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| Jul.18 |
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Webby Awards
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| Jul.19 |
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Sun beats expectations
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| Jul.26 |
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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.31 |
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Sun to cut up to 300 jobs |
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| Aug.2 |
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Fitzhugh guilty of 2nd-degree murder Jury acquitted a real estate consultant of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Kristine
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| Aug.3 |
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Body found of Stanford student Police believe they have found the body of Christina 'Minna' Sandmeyer, 22. They were treating it as a suicide
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| Aug.6 |
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Google names E. Schmidt new CEO Co-founder Larry Page becomes president of products division. Sergey Brin was named president for technology
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| Aug.7 |
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50 vehicles vandalized overnight |
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| Aug.8 |
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New Microsoft research group |
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| Aug.16 |
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HP reports 89% drop in profit
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| Aug.20 |
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Agilent cutting 4,000 jobs
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| Aug.31 |
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Donor withholds $60M from Stanford
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| Sep.3 |
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HP buying Compaq for $25 billion| The new company with annual earnings of $3.9 billion and 145,000 employees would rival IBM | |
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| Sep.6 |
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Teen Averts Attempted Kidnapping
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Quarter revenue as expected |
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| Sep.15 |
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Guilty for copying specs of chip |
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| Sep.18 |
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New CEO, 30% job cut |
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| Sep.26 |
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Exodus files for bankruptcy protection Exodus Communications said business will continue to operate. Company has obtained $200 million in debtor financing
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| Sep.27 |
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Quintuplets delivered |
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| Oct.3 |
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Sun signs $100million pact with News |
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| Oct.5 |
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Sun cut 9% of work force Sun Microsystems lowers earnings outlook and cut 3,900 jobs
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| Oct.10 |
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2 Bay Areans win Nobel prizes
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Expectations met, layoffs possible |
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| Oct.11 |
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Bin Laden aide visited mosque in 1990s
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| Oct.16 |
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Intel meet expectations |
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Transmeta CEO replaced |
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| Oct.17 |
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Profits drop 61% |
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Ariba names interim CFO as CEO |
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| Oct.18 |
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Sun beats expectations Sun Microsystems posts $180 millin first-quarter loss
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| Oct.23 |
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iPod: New digital music player 
The new MP3 player is a device with the size of a deck of cards, that can hold 1,000 songs
| It will take up to 10 seconds to download a CD of music via a FireWire link. The player will only work on Macs running operating systems and iTunes 2. The device only works one way, from a computer to the iPod, to discourage digital music piracy
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| Oct.31 |
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$125,000 Porsche stolen |
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| Nov.4 |
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Moore invests $4.6B into philanthropy |
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| Nov.6 |
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Founder family oppose Compaq deal The family and foundation of William Hewlett will vote their 5% stake against the takeover
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| Nov.7 |
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Tentative deal to take BART south |
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| Nov.8 |
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CEO Yankowski resigns Eric Benhamou, chairman, will take his place until a permanent replacement
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| Nov.9 |
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Bike-Riding Attacker |
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| Nov.13 |
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Los Altos Woman Victim of NY Crash |
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| Nov.14 |
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HP beats estimates |
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| Nov.15 |
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Yahoo to cut 400 jobs More than 12% of its work force to be cut. Yahoo is condensing 44 business units into 6
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Agilent to cut 4,000 more jobs Company is meeting expectations in its 4th quarter
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CEOs reject $22M in merger bonuses |
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| Nov.16 |
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VP resignes |
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| Nov.20 |
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Association president critically injured |
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| Nov.28 |
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Troubled 3Com won't renew name
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250 jobs to cut, revenue as expected |
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| Dec.3 |
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MedImmune to buy Aviron |
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| Dec.6 |
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Revenue to beat forecasts |
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| Dec.7 |
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Packard Foundation against merger Hewlett-Packard largest shareholder plans to vote against the $25 billion acquisition of Compaq
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| Dec.10 |
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Unreliable tests for Lyme disease |
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| Dec.11 |
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Xerox spinning off famed lab |
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| Dec.12 |
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Applied Materials to cut 1,700 jobs |
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$436 million offer for HotJobs |
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| Dec.13 |
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Opposition to merger is widespread |
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| Dec.18 |
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3Com beats expectations |
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| Dec.19 |
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Narrower-than-expected loss |
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| Dec.20 |
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Mayor Accused of Abusing Authority |
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| Dec.27 |
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Takeover of HotJobs.com cleared
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