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Hold the Phones. Qualcomm May Have One Life Left.
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I was never very good at video games, but I knew enough as a kid to use the special code for extra lives in Contra. (People younger than 30: Look it up.)
I wondered on Wednesday whether Qualcomm Inc. had finally run out of what has seemed to be infinite lives.