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Ten catastrophes: All-time worst tech industry executive decisions

Submitted by on 2 September 2011 – 21:15No Comment

Information Technology, software and computer companies are certainly not without their share of poor executive decisions and mismanagement. While dozens of notable examples could have made our list, these were by far the top top 10 worst in the history of the technology industry, causing many billions of dollars of lost revenue or resulted in the downfall of entire companies.

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