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Despite economic hard times, people are still addicted to cable TV

Americans, it seems, are

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 the next couple [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]