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But it was the Apple II that became a hugesuccess and ga e Apple its position as a critical player in thethen-nascent PC industry. ID:nN14487087Today, Jobs is a board member and the largest indi idualshareholder o Walt Disney Co (DIS.N), a position he took whenDisney bought his animation company, Pixar Animation Studio,now known as Disney-Pixar, in 2006. Disney did not respond to queries about whether Jobs wouldcontinue to ser e on the company's board. Apple's stock ell as much as 10 percent ollowing Jobs'announcement, be ore paring losses to trade at $79.64 a terhours The stock had closed down 2.71 percent at $85.33 onNasdaq. (Additional reporting by Anupreeta Das, Jonathan Stempel,Rodrigo Campos, Jenni er Ablan, Yinka Adegoke, Sinead Carew,Jim inkle, Nichola Groom, Gina Keating, Lisa Baertlein andMuralikumar Anantharaman; Editing by Edwin Chan, RichardChang) Stocks Media. Health care policy and go ernment relations irms to pro ide integratedser ices to health care clients amid change o administration in WashingtonWASHINGTON, Jan 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ EBG Ad isors, Inc. and OldakerGroup, LLC, announced today the ormation o National Health Ad isors, LLC, astrategic alliance o the public policy a iliate o EpsteinBeckerGreen, oneo the country's premier health care law irms, and a leading go ernmentrelations irm.As the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress begin their work to re ormAmerica's health care system, the Washington, DC-based joint enture o erslobbying and consulting ser ices to companies needing to understand and impactthe re orm debate.Ser ices o ered by National Health Ad isors, http://, include:Legislati e Ad ocacyHealth Policy AnalysisCoalition BuildingStrategic Messaging and Alliance De elopmentLegislati e and Regulatory Risk AssessmentsEBG Ad isors, http://, is a Washington, DC consultancyaddressing strategy and public policy issues or de elopers o biosciencesinno ations; pro iders o health care ser ices; trade associations,coalitions, and alliances; pri ate-equity and in estment irms; and otherorganizations participating in the health care industry.EBG Ad isors is an a iliate o Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., http://, one o the nation's largest health care and li esciences legal irms.Leslie Norwalk, ormer Acting Administrator and DeputyAdministrator or the Centers or Medicare & Medicaid Ser ices, is strategiccounsel to the irm.The Oldaker Group, a iliated with Oldaker, Belair & Wittie, LLP, http://, is noted or its legislati e and lobbying ad ice and ederal election law expertise.Bill Oldaker, a eteran lobbyist, has beendescribed by The New York Times as "a longtime Washington insider" and"ad isor to Democratic leaders.""National Health Ad isors will use the knowledge o 135 healthcare lawyersand consultants with the Capitol Hill ad ocacy expertise o the OldakerGroup's pro essionals," said EpsteinBeckerGreen Chair Doug Hastings.Bill Oldaker added: "This blend o resources will pro ide solutions or healthcare clients acing ast-paced legislati e and regulatory change."SOURCEEBG Ad isors, Inc.Josh Karlen, Senior Manager o Public Relations o EpsteinBeckerGreen,1-212-351-3711, .

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The maker o lash memory chip products said Thursday ithas engaged Barclays Capital to assist with the process. The company has been hurt by alling prices in the memorymarket and in entory issues, and it has had to try to sellassets and shut down acilities, analysts said. Spansion doesn't ha e the balance sheet to weather theeconomic downturn, Caris & Co analyst Betsy an Hees said. "They're running into a time constraint," an Hees said."They could do with money to continue to run the company. Andwithout the ability to go out and get additional credit, it'seither a sale or merger or un ortunately the worst casescenario bankruptcy. "They're doing this to a oid going into bankruptcy andde aulting to their creditors," she said.