Gizmodo: So, Apple, How Do You Avoid Corporate Hubris? [Blockquote]

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During a Goldman Sachs tech conference today, Apple COO Tim Cook revealed Apple's secret to success: High standards, and a low tolerance for half-assed proposals. Except, that wasn't the...
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Digg: "Fabulous Fab" is the Most Popular Guy on Wall Street

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Fabrice Tourre, the Goldman Sachs employee at the center of an SEC investigation, may have been denounced in Senate hearings, but he's being lauded on Wall Street. What gives?



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World Cup Prediction Failures

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pdcull writes "We all read on Slashdot about the investiment banks using their massive computer power and clever modelling techniques to predict the FIFA World Cup outcome. Now that Goldman Sachs's, UBS's and Danske Bank's favorite, Brazil, has been eliminated, and with JP Morgan's England long gone, the question that begs to be asked is: can we really trust these guys to predict the financial markets any better than they did World Cup?"

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