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WASHINGTON – Regulators have closed small banks in Tennessee and Arizona, bringing the number of U.S. bank failures to 20 this year.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says it seized Community South Bank, based in Parsons, Tenn., with 15 branches and about $386.9 million in assets and $377.7 million in deposits as of June 30. It also shuttered Phoenix-based Sunrise Bank of Arizona, with six branches, $202.2 million in assets and $196.9 million in deposits.
CB&S Bank, based in Russellville, Ala., agreed to assume all of Community South Bank’s deposits and to buy about $121.7 million of its loans and other assets.
First Fidelity Bank, based in Oklahoma City, agreed to assume all of Sunrise Bank’s deposits and to buy all its assets.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced on Friday that he plans to retire from the world’s biggest software company after more than 13 years at its helm. Here’s a look at the ups and downs of his tenure:
— 1980: Ballmer joins the company co-founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975.
— July 21, 1998: Widely seen as the successor to chairman and longtime friend Gates, Ballmer is named president of the software company. He’d previously led Microsoft’s sales and marketing.
— Sept. 23, 1999: Ballmer warns that technology stocks are overvalued, including those of his own company, in public remarks that help accelerate a sharp sell-off on Wall Street. He blames a “gold rush” mentality for the stock price increases.
— Jan. 13, 2000: Gates promotes Ballmer to CEO of Microsoft while staying on as chairman and chief software architect.
— Nov. 15, 2001: Microsoft releases its Xbox video game system, one of the company’s most successful products.
— March 26, 2004: At a conference for online advertisers, Ballmer says Microsoft’s biggest mistake was failing to develop its own search engine, which caused it to fall behind rivals Google and Yahoo in the space…

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NEW YORK, N.Y. – A former hedge fund portfolio manager has pleaded not guilty in New York to charges in a rewritten indictment that accuses him of pursuing an inside investment edge from more than 20 doctors.
Mathew Martoma entered the plea Friday in federal court in Manhattan.
Martoma was arrested in November on charges that he persuaded a medical professor to leak secret data from an Alzheimer’s disease trial. Prosecutors say the inside information enabled other investment professionals at the hedge fund founded by Steven A. Cohen to earn a quarter-billion dollars illegally.
The new securities fraud indictment unveiled Thursday accused Martoma of seeking illegal information from other doctors from 2006 to 2008 while working at Cohen’s SAC Capital Advisors.
The Boca Raton, Fla., resident remains free on bail.
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