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September 09, 2011

• Foxconn, the Chinese supplier of Apple’s iPad 2, is expecting to ship 20 million iPad 2s before Christmas.
• Amazon Chairman and internet billionaire Jeff Bezos' private rocketship crashed and burned during test flight. A "flight instability" triggered safeguards which stopped thrust on the Blue Origin's rocket. http://www.blueorigin.com/letter.htm
• A federal judge has tossed out a "grossly excessive" November jury award that would have seen software company SAP pay $1.3 billion to arch-rival Oracle for theft of its intellectual property. A new trial will be required if Oracle rejects the new $272 million dollar settlement.

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