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    By Peter Cohan

    | 4:00PM 10/18/2009
    Galleon Holdings, the $3.7 billion hedge fund whose founder, Raj Rajaratnam, is out on $100 million bail for his role at the center of a $20 million insider trading scandal, owns big positions in dozens of public companies. And those companies' share prices and management teams could be in trouble....

    By Vishesh Kumar

    | 1:15PM 10/16/2009
    The current M&A wave among tech giants like Dell (DELL), Cisco (CSCO) and Intel (INTC) reveals something new -- and promising -- about the tech landscape, and perhaps for the U.S. economy at large. The titans' shopping spree shows that rather than just bottom-fishing, they're jostling to get in...

    By Dan Burrows

    | 5:00PM 10/02/2009
    Stocks recovered from a gruesome unemployment report and the first drop in factory orders in five months to finish with fractional losses Friday. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) shed 22 points, or 0.2 percent, to close at 9,488, while the broader S&P 500 ($INX) dipped five...

    By Melly Alazraki

    | 7:46AM 10/01/2009
    U.S. stocks are set to kick off the fourth quarter on a lower note even as M&A activity continued. Investors will focus this morning on barrage of economic data and await a testimony by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Meanwhile, the IMF raised its global growth projections for next...

    By Douglas McIntyre

    | 5:20AM 10/01/2009
    Cisco (CSCO) can't seem to help itself. Each year it buys several companies, some of them big. Early today the router company agreed to buy Oslo-based Tandberg. The deal will close early next year and under the terms of the transaction Cisco, which has about $35 billion in cash and short-term...

    By David Schepp

    | 1:20PM 9/21/2009
    The constant drumbeat for corporations to rein in salaries may finally be echoing in the nation's boardrooms. AT&T (T), Cisco Systems (CSCO), and Tyco International (TYC) are among nine companies that have signed on to a number of guiding principles that will link pay to performance, ensure...