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Jamba Juice offers poison pill boost to ward off hostile takeovers
A month after borrowing $25 million at a minimum of 12.5 percent, the parent company of the Jamba Juice franchise, said today that its board of directors has adopted a […]
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Of course, if there’s no enlightenment, a Zen slap just hurts
If you read through enough Zen koans, you’re quickly struck, as it were, by the number of those oblique lessons that end with a student getting slapped. It may be […]
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Something like this might have saved Usenet
The wonderful geek Web comic xkcd has a loyal following across the tech workforce, and now we have evidence of just how well its humor resonates within the Googleplex. A […]
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Apple to reveal latest economic stimulus plan Tuesday
The rumors of something new coming to Apple’s laptop lineup started floating around a month ago. Since then, the speculation has been heating up and the requisite “are they real […]
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Quoted
“What every great Internet company has done is to figure out a way to make money that has to match to what they are doing on the site. I don’t […]
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Off Topic
Word Magazine’s map showing where iconic album-cover photographs were taken, and London artist Harriet Russell’s playful tests of the Royal Mail’s ability to decipher addresses. Also, from Esquire, “The Unspeakable […]
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New Depomed shareholder pays dearly for its stake
Depomed got a new major shareholder earlier this month when Kings Road Investments converted 18,158 shares of the company’s preferred stock it owned into 2.9 million shares of the Menlo […]
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Chordiant slashes forecast and announces layoffs
Chordiant Software slashed its forecast for its fiscal fourth quarter by a third and said it will lay off 33 employees, or about 13 percent of its work force, after […]
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Franklin Resources sees asset shrinkage accelerate
Franklin Resources, the investment management company whose San Mateo headquarters is pictured here, released its monthly update of its assets under management, a report we usually breeze by, but given […]
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Accuray touts first Mideast sale of multi-million dollar robotic surgery system
Accuray, the Sunnyvale developer of robotic radiosurgery systems says that it will install its first CyberKnife system in the Middle East at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre […]
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