<div id="subtitle">AP IMPACT: Mortgage middlemen to profit from gov't housing bailout despite checkered past</div><div><p>Billions of dollars the government is spending to help financially pressed homeowners avert foreclosure are passing through — and enriching — companies accused of preying on the people they're supposed to help, an ...

<div><h1> IS SILICON VALLEY LOSING ITS MAGIC? </h1><p>Transmeta Corp. once embodied the Silicon Valley dream. Starting in 1995, the company raised more than $300 million in a nervy bid to reinvent the market for chips powering portable computers. Yet Transmeta struggled in recent years, and the grand hopes officially ...

<div><p>Digg founder Kevin Rose on Friday shined light on a stormy economic landscape, saying the climate is right for launching Internet startups.</p><p>Difficulty getting financing means fewer competitors entering the market and that there will be more media attention focused on young technology firms, Rose told those gathered ...