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Feb 25 2009 5:10pm EDT

Last Bytes: Apple, Nortel, Online Advertising

Shareholders of Apple voted to re-elect the company's board of directors despite concerns related to the disclosure, or lack thereof, about the health of chief executive Steve Jobs. [Marketwatch]

Major job cuts coming at Nortel. [New York Times]

Internet advertising could fall by 5 percent in the first quarter of 2009, the first contraction in online ad spending since the dot-com bubble burst in 2001. [Dow Jones]

Federal regulators fined hundreds of small telecommunications providers for not abiding by new rules designed to protect consumer phone records, proposing more than $13 million in total fines. [Wall Street Journal]

by Joan R. Magee


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