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1. Nortel
Floundering since a disastrous accounting scandal in 2004, the once-strong networking company finally filed for bankruptcy in January.
2. BearingPoint
The company formerly known ass KPMG Consulting filed for bankruptcy and sold for parts.
3. eBay/Skype
Technology rights were disputed as the online phone service was put up for sale, but eBay's bumbling was not in doubt.
4. Spansion
A hyped joint venture between Fujitsu and AMD and one of the world's largest flash memory makers, Spansion filed for bankruptcy in February.
5. Digital River
Shares in the e-commerce service provider plummeted in October when Symantec, the customer behind a quarter of its revenue, announced it would cut ties.
6. Qimonda
Depressed DRAM sent the U.S. subsidiary of this memory chip manufacturer declared bankruptcy early in 2009.
7. Quantum
EMC snapped up Data Domain for $2.4B and ditched its long-standing OEM deal with data-deduper Quantum.
8. Psystar
Constant pressure from Apple lawyers helped drive the Mac cloner into bankruptcy in May.
9. ConSentry Networks
Network access control proved a tough business, and ConSentry went belly-up in August.
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