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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

percent in 2004, a decline of 1.1 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. I – like many – will use technology to move my money but keep my account open – costing the bank money. High-tech employment fell from 12.1 percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

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in 2005, the thinking was that enhanced communications technology would help buyers and sellers better connect. The companies served different user bases: Nextel was more of a business brand, with customers often drawn to its signature walkie-talkie technology. Toshiba was forced to write off $6.3B eBay and Skype. Price: $2.6B.

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

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Coda Automotive sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections in May 2013, and announced it was restructuring its business as a battery technology company. Coda’s unsold vehicles were later acquired by Mullen Technologies, an electric vehicle company based in California. No AdMob, no product. Founded: 2013. Declared Bankruptcy: 2018.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

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And that we should do that not because they’re tax evaders or evil — all things he said they, like all of us, are. That the middle class is bifurcating — to the have’s and mostly to the have not’s as a result of jobs that are disappearing because technology and software is eliminating them. What they discovered was sobering: 56.5

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When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 116 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time

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SPOT Watches, Microsoft (2004). MSN was no one’s favorite web portal, and by 2004 there were many better ways to get stock quotes, weather, and other information than through this clunky watch. Sapphire iPhone Screens, Apple and GT Advanced Technologies (2014). NW-HD1 Audio Player, Sony (2004). Wave, Google (2009).

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

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It wouldn’t be until almost exactly one year later that investors really started flocking to the early social media startup. Thiel became an outside board member with his $500K seed investment in Facebook in 2004. At the time of the investment, the company had what was considered a sky-high $87.5M When Snap Inc.

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