SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- MarketWatch.com, an innovator in business news, personal finance information and investment tools, has named Therese Poletti technology columnist and Benjamin Pimentel technology reporter.
Poletti, an award-winning staff writer at the San Jose Mercury News for the last seven years, will deliver real-time breaking news commentary to MarketWatch.com's audience of institutional and retail investors while providing fresh views of large, ongoing news topics in technology. Pimentel, previously a reporter with 14 years of experience at the San Francisco Chronicle, will cover manufacturers and fabrication equipment vendors in the semiconductor industry.
"Therese, one of the best-known technology reporters in the nation, has been a driving force in Silicon Valley news for more than a decade while Ben has made an indelible mark at one of the premier technology news sources," said David Callaway, editor-in-chief, MarketWatch.com. "Our strong technology team has just gotten even stronger, and as we redesign our tech section to give those stories more prominence, we couldn't be happier to bring Therese's byline and Ben's depth of reporting experience to our team."
Poletti covered technology trends, companies and culture in Silicon Valley at the Mercury News. She covered the Hewlett-Packard boardroom scandal and the stock options backdating investigations, and was the lead reporter on the proxy battle at HP and later on the ouster of former HP CEO Carly Fiorina. Poletti broke the story that Intel was working on an alternative to its Itanium chip to better compete with AMD. She previously served as a correspondent for Reuters America, a reporter for The Business Journal (San Jose, Calif.) and a business reporter/intern for Crain's New York Business.
Poletti earned an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. from Santa Clara University. She has received recognition for individual and team coverage of HP's boardroom scandal and of Fiorina from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, and the Society of Professional Journalists. She was also a finalist for a Gerald Loeb Award and in the Best in the West awards.
Pimentel covered business, technology and Silicon Valley at the San Francisco Chronicle and produced podcast reports for the paper's web site, SFGate.com. He most recently served as a public relations manager at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He previously served as co-anchor at Balitang America, a weekly newscast geared to the Filipino community in North America, and contributed radio commentaries about the Philippines and the Asian American community to Pacific Time on KQED-FM. Pimentel holds an M.J. from the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. from the University of the Philippines. He is fluent in Tagalog.
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