News: Business & Finance

• For use in weekend editions of Oct. 11-12 and thereafter.
  Peter Svensson
  Oct 11 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  On a bank of the Mohawk River, a windowless industrial building of corrugated steel hides something that could make floor lamps, bedside lamps, wall sconces and nearly every other household lamp ...

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• How badly could a recession hurt cleantech?
  Chris Morrison
  Oct 10 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  It’s safe to say that the cleantech investors who pumped tens of billions of dollars into cleantech over the past three years didn’t expect a serious recession any more than anyone else. ...

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• Expect to see start-ups and VCs hit standoff over valuations
  Matt Marshall
  Oct 10 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  When the stock market goes into the dumps, it takes a while for the effects to trickle down to start-ups. That’s because start-ups are often are working away on a project that’s isolated ...

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• Sinking shares could make Yahoo a target again
  Jessica Mintz
  Oct 10 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  When Yahoo Inc. co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang spurned Microsoft Corp.'s rich buyout offer this spring, he promised brighter days in Sunnyvale were just over the horizon. Now the market collapse has ...

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• It only seems like the only news is the economy
  Nancy Weil
  Oct 10 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  Not all of this week's news involved global financial turmoil: while IT budgets are being cut and AMD is breaking itself up, a security tool was released for Firefox that prevents "clickjacking" and ...

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• Google prepping special iPhone ads?
  Anthony Ha
  Oct 10 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  Just because Google will soon release its mobile operating system Android, it’s not ignoring the iPhone. In fact, the online ad giant is preparing to offer advertisers a way to tailor ads for ...

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• Remaining objective when fear is in the air
  William Quigley
  Oct 10 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  [Editor's Note: Taking a break from the doom and gloom of the economic downturn, venture capitalist William Quigley offers a more optimistic assessment of the current situation.] It is hard to ...

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• Twofish raises $4.5M to create economies for virtual worlds
  Dean Takahashi
  Oct 10 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  Twofish has raised $4.5 million in a second round of funding for its business of creating the economic infrastructure behind virtual worlds. The deal is another indication that the virtual goods ...

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• Zoho uses Google Gears to go offline — what about Gmail?
  Anthony Ha
  Oct 10 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  There’s a lot to like about Zoho Mail, the next step in Zoho’s rapid roll-out of a broad range of business applications . But for a non-Zoho user, there’s one thing that’s ...

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• Surprise! Web ads aren't immune from the credit crisis
  Jordan Golson, The Industry Standard
  Oct 10 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  Numerous analysts have been slashing their online ad forecasts in the wake of the market bloodbath. Unsurprisingly, market conditions will affect things, but at least there is still growth. Wachovia ...

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