News tagged with economic meltdown
Microsoft says cost-cutting CFO to step down
Nov 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said its chief financial officer is departing at the end of the year and will be replaced by the man now responsible for the books at the division that produces Microsoft Office and other ...
Investors lap up Apple's 47 percent profit jump
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Wall Street knew Apple Inc.'s results for the most recent quarter would blow past the company's guidance, but investors clearly weren't prepared for the 47 percent jump in profit that Apple delivered.
Microsoft CEO's compensation down 6 percent in '09
Sep 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The value of the compensation package granted to Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer fell about 6 percent in fiscal 2009, a year in which weak computer sales cut into the software maker's profits.
Microsoft CEO Ballmer's salary up 4 percent in '09
Sep 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. raised CEO Steve Ballmer's salary by 4 percent at the start of fiscal 2009, a year in which the software maker's profit declined 17 percent as the economic meltdown decimated personal ...
No jobs, no insurance: hard times for young adults
Jul 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Emily Weinstein graduated from college into an economic meltdown, and as a self-employed jewelry maker she'll be lucky to bring in $16,000 this year.
Quicken helps budget-minded iPhone owners
May 01, 2009 |
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Intuit is offering iPhone owners free Quicken software designed to help them live within their means during these tough economic times.
Taiwan's HTC says profit down 30 percent
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Taiwan's smartphone maker HTC Corp posted a year-on-year 30 percent fall in first quarter net profit as the global economic meltdown hit sales, the company said Monday.
Journalism evolving, not dying: science author
Mar 14, 2009 |
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Newspapers are dying but journalism is evolving, an acclaimed science writer told a gathering of the techno-hip at South By South West Interactive Festival on Friday.
New working-class task force faces broad challenges, labor expert says
Feb 17, 2009 |
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A task force launched by President Obama to boost America's middle class will have to help retool beleaguered U.S. workplaces facing their most sweeping changes since World War II, a University of Illinois labor expert says.
Flawed deposit insurance programs need reform, banking expert says
Jan 05, 2009 |
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Government insurance programs that safeguard bank deposits should be reformed to ease taxpayers' undue stake in propping up the nation's banking system, according to research by a University of Illinois finance professor.
