2.7 million U.S. workers went on vacation in April

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Number of the day 2.7 million That's how many U.S. workers were on vacation in April, according to a monthly survey by the Labor Department. As the unemployment rate has fallen to 8.1 percent last month from 10 percent in Oc ...
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Jonah Goldberg: No accusation is too ludicrous to hurl at corporations

Source: Omaha.com

Jack Andraka, a 15-year-old kid from Maryland, just won the world’s largest high school science competition by creating a new test for pancreatic cancer, one of the nastiest and most lethal forms of the disease. According to various news reports, the w ...
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Tech's $20 million CEOs

Source: ITWorld.com

May 26, 2012, 7:35 AM — Eyebrow-raising executive compensation shows no signs of abating, and Network World's analysis of CEO pay finds the tech/telco industry is no exception. The average CEO pay for companies in the S&P 500 Index climbed to $12.9 milli ...
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Market Snapshot: Investors keeping tabs on Greece, jobs picture

Source: MarketWatch

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Is HP's Autonomy the Worst Place to Work On The Planet?

Source: Wired

Autonomy's CEO Mike Lynch is being shown the door after just seven months. Photo: HP It was the $10 billion acquisition that helped sink Leo Apotheker. Larry Ellison called it overpriced. And today, it’s HP CEO Meg Whitman’s big ...
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Tech courts its own basketball team

Source: Fortune

By Richard Nieva, reporter FORTUNE -- San Francisco is likely getting a new toy. This week, the NBA's Golden State Warriors announced their intentions to move the Oakland-based team across the bay to San Francisco, complete with plans for a swanky ...
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HP/Autonomy: a necessary gamble

Source: Globe and Mail

That gleeful background noise, as Hewlett-Packard presented its quarterly results on Wednesday, was Larry Ellison giggling. Last autumn, the Oracle boss got into a nasty public back-and-forth with Mike Ly ...
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Sun Hardware 'Blows,' According to Oracle Internal Documents

Source: NetworkWorld

One of the reasons I'm not a huge fan of litigation is because of something we call discovery. Both sides get the opportunity to drill into each other's private correspondence and look for things neither ...
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SAP to buy Ariba, boosts cloud bet

Source: Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Top European software company SAP AG plans to buy Ariba Inc in a deal valuing the business and commerce network company at $4.3 billion, its latest maneuver against Oracle in the fast-growing Internet-based computing m ...
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