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No one ever went to jail for jailbreaking
Philip Elmer-DeWitt 2010-07-28 11:51If you pay full price for a piece of hardware -- say an iPhone -- it seems only fair that you should be able to do with it whatever you want. Hit it w...
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Where Toyota went wrong
Alex Taylor III 2010-02-03 09:18By Alex Taylor IIIWhen Toyota gets around to doing one of its famous "root cause" analyses of the Great Accelerator Recall, it should start by looking...
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After a drug conviction, can you ever get hired?
Anne Fisher 2010-09-03 01:07Dear Annie: I just read your column on job hunting with a flawed credit history ("Bad credit, no job?" July 2010). I have an even worse problem. About...
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Where Goldman really went wrong
Allan Sloan 2010-04-22 11:26"Our assets are our people, capital and reputation. If any of these is ever diminished, the last is most difficult to restore."-- From Goldman Sachs B...
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What went wrong at AMD
Eleanor Bloxham 2011-01-19 01:53The AMD board's ouster of CEO Dirk Meyer on Monday caught many by surprise and highlights the need for better succession planning and communication be...
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The best private equity deal to ever fall apart
D.M. Levine 2010-05-27 01:27When news started to trickle out two weeks ago that a consortium of private equity firms were in talks to buy up a Fortune 500 provider of real estate...
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How corporate America went open-source
Kit R. Roane 2010-08-21 12:24There was a time when open-source software was the domain of computer geeks and do-it-yourselfers with more time than money. But, as Oracle's legal sa...
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Breaking up with the Nexus One
Michael V. Copeland 2010-02-12 01:15Was I fickle? Or was our relationship doomed from the start?by Michael V. CopelandI just put my Nexus One “superphone” back in its box to send it home...
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Why Wall St. went gaga for Hurd
Adam Lashinsky 2010-09-10 01:23In Hurd, Oracle gets an executive who has now been competing at the highest level with its most important adversaries. And if Hurd can adjust to being...
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What went wrong at Burger King
Dan Mitchell 2010-09-08 01:08It's not yet clear what Burger King's new owner, the Brazilian-backed private equity firm 3G Capital, has in mind for the troubled No. 2 fast-food cha...
