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  • April 2008
    • Google Taps Quattrone for Yahoo Advice

      Google Taps Quattrone for Yahoo Advice

      (Newser) - Google has hired controversial former dot-com banker Frank Quattrone to advise the company on its increasingly complicated role in Yahoo’s takeover drama, the New York Times reports. It’s Quattrone’s first high-visibility gig since his obstruction-of-justice conviction was overturned last year. Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a longtime associate of Quattrone’s. More »

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      Google   Microsoft   Yahoo   AOL   Eric Schmidt   tech bubble   Frank Quattrone

  • March 2008
    • Ex-Qwest CEO's Conviction Overturned

      Ex-Qwest CEO's Conviction Overturned

      (Newser) - A federal appeals court overturned Joe Nacchio’s guilty verdict today and ordered a new trial for the ex-Qwest CEO before a different judge, the Denver Post reports. The court ruled that the district judge who presided over Nacchio's trial on insider trading charges erred in excluding testimony from an expert witness who teaches law at Northwestern. More »

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      insider trading   Qwest   Joseph Nacchio   tech bubble   appellate court   overturned verdict

  • February 2008
    • How Obama Is Like a Dot-Com

      How Obama Is Like a Dot-Com

      (Newser) - Barack Obama may be generating excitement across America, but so did tech stocks during the late-'90s bubble, writes Der Spiegel ’s Gabor Steingart. "The rhetoric all sounds strangely familiar," he warns, comparing Obama’s campaign to that absurd era in the market’s history. Just as the bubble stocks had no use for pesky balance sheets, Obama sees little need for policy specifics. More »

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      Barack Obama   Hillary Clinton   Obama 2008   foreign policy   Obama-mentum   tech bubble

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