Day after day this week, technology stocks got hammered: the CNET Technology Index, which tracks 66 publicly traded tech companies, dropped for the fourth straight day Thursday to hit its lowest level in more than three years. Of course, tech stocks were not alone. Just when it seemed like it couldn't go any lower, the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Thursday fell below 9,000 for the first time in five years, and the Nasdaq and S&P 500 indexes all continued to slide. But tech industry leaders, some of whom had thought their industry might be immune from the financial crisis, are seeing the week as a critical wakeup call. Even the healthiest of companies have seen their stocks being sold en masse. Google, for example, finished trading Thursday at about $329 per share, a new 52-week low and less than half the asking price for a...
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