Pity poor Genworth Financial (GNW). All the phony banks are getting bailout money except Genworth. For more, click here.

Genworth, once part of General Electric (GE), said its deal to buy InterBank hinged on acceptance into the government program. For more, click here.

Making Genworth's collapse all the more painful was the surge in insurance industry stock prices last Wednesday after a report that the Treasury was prepared to give some large life insurers an injection of government aid. The rally sent up shares of MetLife(MET) and Prudential(PRU), mega-insurers that have long had bank holding-company status, as well as Lincoln National(LNC), Hartford Financial(HIG) and Genworth, which jumped on the bank-buying bandwagon during the height of the credit crisis last year. For more, click here.

Making Genworth's collapse all the more painful was the surge in insurance industry stock prices last Wednesday after a report that the Treasury was prepared to give some large life insurers an injection of government aid. The rally sent up shares of MetLife(MET) and Prudential(PRU), mega-insurers that have long had bank holding-company status, as well as Lincoln National(LNC), Hartford Financial(HIG) and Genworth, which jumped on the bank-buying bandwagon during the height of the credit crisis last year. For more, click here.

Making Genworth's collapse all the more painful was the surge in insurance industry stock prices last Wednesday after a report that the Treasury was prepared to give some large life insurers an injection of government aid. The rally sent up shares of MetLife(MET) and Prudential(PRU), mega-insurers that have long had bank holding-company status, as well as Lincoln National(LNC), Hartford Financial(HIG) and Genworth, which jumped on the bank-buying bandwagon during the height of the credit crisis last year. For more, click here.

Making Genworth's collapse all the more painful was the surge in insurance industry stock prices last Wednesday after a report that the Treasury was prepared to give some large life insurers an injection of government aid. The rally sent up shares of MetLife(MET) and Prudential(PRU), mega-insurers that have long had bank holding-company status, as well as Lincoln National(LNC), Hartford Financial(HIG) and Genworth, which jumped on the bank-buying bandwagon during the height of the credit crisis last year. For more, click here.

Take Amazon.com's (AMZN) absurd episode this week, for example. The online retailer apologized Monday for an admittedly "embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error" that led to the sales ranking being removed from tens of thousands of its books, thus making book searches nearly impossible. For more, click here.

Hold the phones! At long last eBay (EBAY) is hanging up on its disastrous Skype acquisition. For more, click here.