Don’t Call It a Recession: How’d the East Bay Do Yesterday?

What a day, huh? The Bay Area’s tech sector took a real beating yesterday, as the NASDAQ dropped nine percent, and the region’s most sophisticated and profitable companies led the charge toward the basement. Apple’s stock lost a remarkable 18 percent of its value, and Google’s stock fell more than ten percent, dropping below $400 a share for the first time since 2006, when it was on its way up. So, how did the East Bay’s biggest public companies do in yesterday’s bloodbath?