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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Silicon Valley calls the help desk on Volcker rule

Posted by Reuters: Business News on January 12, 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – While Wall Street giants fight to get regulators to loosen the broad trading restrictions of the Volcker rule, a bank that sits in the heart of California’s high-tech corridor has mounted its own aggressive and more focused lobbying effort.



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Apple, with eye on media, names Disney’s Iger to board

Posted by Reuters: Business News on November 16, 2011

(Reuters) – Apple Inc moved to shore up its board after the death of Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs, appointing Walt Disney Co chief executive Bob Iger to its board to propel its media ambitions.


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HP loses strategy chief as overhaul rumbles on

Posted by Reuters: Business News on October 21, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co’s chief strategy and technology officer has retired, becoming the latest senior executive to leave the storied Silicon Valley giant struggling to restore its tarnished credibility.


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Apple’s visionary Steve Jobs dead at 56

Posted by Reuters: Business News on October 6, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Steve Jobs, the transcendent Silicon Valley entrepreneur who reinvented the world’s computing, music and mobile phone industries and changed the daily habits of millions around the globe, died on Wednesday at the age of 56.



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HP names Whitman CEO, Apotheker out

Posted by Reuters: Business News on September 22, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co named former eBay Inc Chief Executive Meg Whitman its president and CEO, replacing the harshly criticized Leo Apotheker in a bid to restore investor confidence in the iconic Silicon Valley company.



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Steve Jobs resigns from Apple, Cook becomes CEO

Posted by Reuters: Business News on August 24, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs relinquished the reins at Apple Inc to right-hand man Tim Cook on Wednesday, after 14 years in command at a company he brought back from the brink and turned into the world’s largest technology corporation.



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Steve Jobs resigns from Apple, Cook becomes CEO

Posted by Reuters: Business News on

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs on Wednesday resigned as chief executive of Apple Inc in a stunning move that ended his 14-year reign at the technology giant he co-founded in a garage.



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Steve Jobs resigns as CEO, named chairman

Posted by Reuters: Business News on

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs on Wednesday resigned as chief executive of Apple Inc in a stunning move at the technology giant he co-founded in a garage.



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Insight: GM hopes spending on start-ups will make it cool

Posted by Reuters: Business News on August 17, 2011

DETROIT (Reuters) – From an empty auto-parts plant in the heart of Rust Belt America, General Motors Co is out to show the world that the automaker once dismissed as an industrial dinosaur has gained some Silicon Valley cool just two years after its taxpayer-funded bankruptcy.



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Apple directors talked CEO job with recruiters: report

Posted by Reuters: Business News on July 19, 2011

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Several Apple Inc board members have discussed a successor to CEO Steve Jobs since the Silicon Valley icon went on medical leave in January, and have discussed it with at least one head of a high-profile tech company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.



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