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Obama presses economic theme as team solidifiesPosts Tagged ‘financial meltdown’
Despite economic hard times, people are still addicted to cable TV
Americans, it seems, are addicted to cable TV. Like every other addiction, we need our hit so bad that we’ll ignore the realities of our financial situation—we’re all going broke, fast—in order to watch Entourage and Down and Dirty with Jim Norton. (more...)
Stocks: The Lost Earnings Season
The coming blitz of quarterly results may leave investors more confused than ever about the outlook for corporate profits and the economy For stock investors, this earnings season is turning into the lost quarter. This month, companies began unveiling their results from the 2008 third quarter, which included July, August, and September. And [...]
Startups Feel the Squeeze
With the IPO market bleak and venture capital scarce, innovative new companies are running low on cash Gajus Worthington has seen the effect of the financial meltdown on U.S. startups, and it's not a pretty picture. The chief executive of Silicon Valley's Fluidigm set out to take his chipmaker public about a month ago. On Sept. 5, the first [...]
Twitter to IM: Drop Dead
It took a worldwide financial meltdown for Twitter to finally cough up the IM hairball. At BearHug Camp, I spent about 10 of the 30 minute executive visitation trying to pin down Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Alex Payne on when exactly Track and IM would be back, and in what order. Turns out the IM part isn’t coming back; it’s been moved from [...]
