5 posts and columns on Mercury News

Apple Buys Old HP Campus

in News on November 25, 2010 at 10:23 am PT

Hewlett-Packard has found a buyer for its decades-old campus at 19091 Pruneridge Avenue in Cupertino, Calif. Apple.

Former Brocade CEO: Hello, BofA? Yes, I’d Like to Stop Payment on a $15 Million Check.

in News on August 19, 2009 at 7:18 am PT

Another first for former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Greg Reyes. He was the first Silicon Valley CEO to be indicted on federal charges in the options backdating scandal of a few years ago and the first to be found guilty. And on Tuesday, he became the first to have his conviction overturned.
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Palm Investors: All Hail Jon Rubinstein

in News on June 11, 2009 at 11:10 am PT

Jon Rubinstein’s appointment as Palm CEO was well received by investors. Clearly, the Pre father’s background at Apple and his recent efforts to rebuild Palm around a new and competitive operating system–the OS the company should have had two years ago–have convinced Wall Street that he’s the guy to bring back the company’s long-lost edge.
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Crappy Times Are Here Again…

in News on March 6, 2009 at 2:00 pm PT

Another grim report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics today shows the job market slipping closer still to the grim levels it reached in 1982. The country lost 651,000 jobs in February, pushing the national unemployment rate to 8.1 percent, the Bureau said Friday. That’s its highest rate in 25 years.