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Previous: January 1, 2009

Thursday 01.08.2009

• Insurance brokers EPIC and Arthur J. Gallagher settle lawsuit
• Chevron lowers outlook
• Oakland business cleans up after riot
• Vetrazzo pacts allow national distribution
• Popovits named Genomic Health CEO
• Bill Keller joins Community Bank of the Bay
• Fannie, Freddie foreclosure pause extended
• Virtuallogix names Dorchak CEO
• EMC to cut 2,400 jobs
• Macy's to close 11 stores nationwide
• Ross Stores reports December sales up 6%
• Wells taps two Wachovia execs
• Bebe’s Q2 same-store sales down 20%
• Fundraising retreats in Q4 for private equity firms
• Holiday sales plunge at Williams-Sonoma
• Ooma names new CEO
• Gap’s December sales down 12%

Wednesday 01.07.2009

• Ailing economy hurts hospitals, patients
• American President Lines to land in Phoenix
• Facet Biotech to lay off 78
• BioSeek signs deal with Belgian pharma company
• Synosia lands $29M investment
• Committee to help manage Neurobiological Technologies
• BofA sells China Construction shares for $2.8B
• Greenline Industries hires new CEO
• Cost Plus lets investor boost stake
• Gene Security Network raises $6M
• New Resource Bank names new chairman
• Intradigm adds $2.9M, loses CEO
• Software maker Scientific Learning to cut 14% of work force
• Bling Nation names CFO
• Intel cuts earnings forecast
• One True Media gets $9M in second round
• Sun Microsystems buys cloud computing company Q-layer

Tuesday 01.06.2009

• Mechanics Bank touts strength as it accepts Treasury investment
• Real estate icon Hal Ellis dies
• Blue Shield settles with Insurance Department
• Network Equipment Technologies to cut 40 workers
• Aehr Test profit shrinks in Q2
• Polycom to cut 150 people
• ACBJ Chairman wins business journalism award
• BofA CEO recommends top brass get no bonuses
• Facet Biotech chief business officer ‘terminated’
• S.F. Fed names chairman and deputy chairman
• UCSF wins $7.5M grant to address health worker shortage
• KineMed wins Parkinson’s grant
• Anacor Pharmaceuticals raises $50M in equity financing
• Macrovision changes plan, to sell TV Guide assets to Lions Gate for $225M
• Sentilla raises $7.5 million
• Stanford survey: Financial services firms dominate class actions in 2008
• Logitech to cut 15 percent of its workers
• Growth in health care spending slows

Monday 01.05.2009

• Wells Fargo buys loans and leases from GE
• Xobni raises $7 million
• Oakland A’s touch that dial: New radio deal
• LDK Solar lowers Q4 sales expectations by $130 million
• Building Materials to shuffle operations, lay off 260
• Solyndra raises $219 million
• Xoma hires CFO
• Report: Meg Whitman quits boards, may run for governor
• Venture-backed IPOs last year hit 30-year low
• AXT cuts Q4 guidance
• PLX Technology completes acquisition of Oxford Semiconductor
• Adobe, Intel to bring Flash to TV
• Nuon Therapeutics names chief medical officer
• Apple CEO Steve Jobs afflicted with 'hormonal imbalance'

Friday 01.02.2009

• FDIC sells IndyMac for $13.9 billion
• Scientific Learning changes CEOs
• Wikipedia passes $6M fundraising goal
• Sonic Solutions lowers Q3 expectations
• AsianWeek to stop publication
• Time Warner, Viacom reach New Year’s deal
• Manufacturing falls to 28-year low
• BofA closes Merrill Lynch deal
• Venture liquidity hit 5-year low in 2008
• Report: Some IPOs may surprise in 2009

Thursday 01.01.2009

• Wells’ acquisition of Wachovia completed

Wednesday 12.31.2008

• Impax sued over copy of infection drug Doryx
• Copart lets public peek at its auto sales site
• New product speculation swirls by Apple faithful in advance of MacWorld
• New jobless claims drop, continuing unemployment rolls grow
• Nektar completes $115M asset sale to Novartis
• XStor launches collaborative imaging system
• FDA approves Roche blood test
• Report: Big bailout recipients still shaky
• SEC changes oil, gas reporting rules

Tuesday 12.30.2008

• PG&E adds AT&T exec to board
• Wells cuts 53 jobs in Arizona
• Glu Mobile revises MIG acquisition terms
• Virage Logic cuts Q1 forecast
• XenoPort to sell $40M in stock, warrants
• AMD reports more job cuts, higher restructuring costs

Monday 12.29.2008

• Suitor Select Staffing proposes to Westaff
• FDIC close to a sale of IndyMac to private equity investors: report
• Heller Ehrman files Chapter 11
• Moore Foundation taps new science exec
• Actuate buys $60M of its stock in Dutch auction
• Celera, Abbott revise agreements
• $99 iPhones offered by AT&T, not Wal-Mart

Wednesday 12.24.2008

• Report: CEO pay will change in 2009
• Wells Fargo names Shelley Freeman Florida bank head
• Cavium Networks closes acquisition of W&W Communications
• Survey: Tech companies freezing salaries, hiring in 2009
• iPod is top seller for holidays
• Claims against WaMu now total $7.8B
• Coke scolded over labeling of Diet Coke Plus
• Mortgage applications up 48 percent as interest rates dip
• Verizon awarded $33M in 'cybersquatting' case

Tuesday 12.23.2008

• Facebook, MySpace revenue dips
• San Francisco Opera posts fiscal surplus
• TPG permits investors to cut capital commitments up to 10 percent: report
• Wells Fargo elects four Wachovia directors
• California home sales up 83.2%, median price drops 41.8%
• Exar lowers Q3 guidance
• PLX Technology cuts Q4 revenue forecast
• VIA Pharmaceuticals in licensing deal with Roche
• Thermage completes acquisition of Reliant
• Online holiday spending down 1%
• National Retail Federation asks for more sales tax breaks
• Reports: Fry's executive charged in alleged $65M fraud
• ATS Medical closes $20M financing deal, settles CarboMedics lawsuit
• Wells Fargo Bay Area exec relocating to Los Angeles with promotion
• UCBH completes second phase in Chinese bank deal
• Existing home sales plummet nationwide in November
• Wachovia shareholders OK Wells deal
• Zoran cuts guidance
• U.S. economy shrank by 0.5% in third quarter
• Unisys cutting 1,300 jobs, freezing salaries, ending 401(k) matches
• BDNA merges with PS’Soft
• Savi may win portion of DoD contract
• UnitedHealth settles with SEC over stock-options backdating charges
• Southwest moves closer to Canada flights
• Harmonic to buy Scopus Video Networks for $51M

Monday 12.22.2008

• California controller says state’s running out of cash
• UC medical centers nurses support strike
• River Cats' manager moves up to the A's
• Report: More Californians sign up for public assistance
• NetGear HQ sells for $35.7M
• Toyota expects fiscal operating loss
• Sonoma's Sebastiani Vineyards sold to Foley Wine Group
• Chevron to make $1.4M in East Bay donations
• Census: Calif. No. 2 in most new residents
• Provigent gets $10M in funding
• Sangamo BioSciences in $3M deal with Pfizer
• KB Toys starts going-out-of-business sale
• Survey: Layoffs leading to data theft
• EAG to buy Nano Integrated Solutions
• Online spending heavy but misses holiday mark
• Check Point to buy Nokia security appliance business
• KaloBios Pharmaceuticals gets $12M
• Palm gets $100M infusion