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Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business.

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Yahoo CEO Didn't Have to Get 'Minkowed'

Yahoo Inc.

(NASDAQ:YHOO) Chief Executive Scott Thompson should have read the column I wrote in February 2009 headlined "Of all the indignities, don't get Minkowed."The column went like this:"Getting Minkowed begins when you learn that a guy named Barry Minkow has just shorted your stock, betting that information he has just uncovered can make it go down. Then you learn that Minkow has discovered those lies that you put on your resume."Now, your board has to face investors who are asking, 'Gee, if there's a lie on the resume, are there lies on the books, too?' Your immediate removal is the only good answer to this question. You've just been Minkowed."Thompson is getting Minkowed by a powerful shareholder who wants him out for claiming a degree in computer science he does not have. Even Warren Buffett has joined in the Minkowing. "If you cannot trust the people you're working with, you have a problem," the Oracle of Omaha said, taking questions from reporters at his annual hoedown.At lea...

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