The Wall Street Journal Western Edition 1989 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
Apple Computer 'press defense' wins suit. (Legal Beat) | Business, general | Arthur S. Hayes, Ann Hagedorn |
Apple Japan and Canon face antitrust probe. (Japan's Fair Trade Commission searches Apple Computer Japan, Canon Sales Co. offices) | Business, general | Masayoshi Kanabayashi |
Apple's stock continues weeklong slide as firm discloses poor profit outlook. | Business, general | William III Celis |
Ashton-Tate is cutting its work force 15% to 20%, predicting wider losses. (Ashton-Tate Corp. announces companywide layoffs and cost-cutting plans due to third quarter losses, excess inventory and slow sales) | Business, general | Marilyn Chase |
Ashton-Tate posts $19.4 million loss for third quarter. | Business, general | |
AT&T decides not to raise its dividend; move disappoints analysts who had wanted rise; share price drops $1.25. (Dividend News) | Business, general | John Keller |
AT&T expands early-retirement plan; earnings climbed 19% in third period. | Business, general | Laurie P. Cohen |
AT&T is clear to continue discount plans; FCC's ruling will affect long-distance packages aimed at big customers. (Federal Communications Commission) | Business, general | Bob Davis |
Balance of power: program-trading war masks deeper battle for market supremacy; 'old guard' seizes offensive, but rivals are bigger, richer and high-tech; civil war at the Big Board. (includes glossary of program-trading terms) | Business, general | Craig Torres, William Power, Douglas R. Sease |
BellSouth, LIN agree to merge cellular lines; spinoff, dividend planned; pact may spur McCaw to raise its bid for LIN. (LIN Broadcasting Corp., McCaw Cellular Communications Inc.) | Business, general | Janet Guyon, Dennis Kneale, Julie Amparano Lopez |
Big-company tactics spur turnaround at small firm. (Structural Dynamics Research Corp's Ronald Friedsam turns the company around by using big-corporation tactics) | Business, general | Peter Pae |
Brooke plans to make equity investment in MAI Basic Four. (Brooke Partners L.P.) | Business, general | |
Bull's chairman to use U.S. acquisitions to lift computer maker's world stature. (Groupe Bull; Francis Lorentz) (company profile) | Business, general | Philip Revzin |
Compumat net in third period to rise slightly. (Compumat Inc.) | Business, general | James P. Miller |
Computer disks come on line as the latest vehicles for ads. (floppy disks used in advertising) | Business, general | Joanne Lipman |
Computer firm injects freedom into franchising. | Business, general | Michael Selz |
Computer vaccines or snake oil? (anti-virus computer software) (Enterprise) | Business, general | Michael Selz |
Computer virus doesn't cause much lost sleep. (Friday the 13th virus) | Business, general | |
Computer whizzes sign off on shares. (computer industry execs are selling stock in their own companies) (Inside Track) | Business, general | Alexandra Peers |
CompuTrac says it expects to report earnings plunge. | Business, general | Michael Allen |
Data General's co-founder, de Castro, to give day-to-day authority to Skates. (Edson de Castro, Ronald Skates) (Who's News) | Business, general | Christopher J. Chipello |
DEC net fell 32% in quarter, sales rose 6.4%; results for fiscal 1st period lead analysts to predict weaker results ahead. | Business, general | Gary Putka |
Dow Jones seeks to buy rest of Telerate for $18 a share, or total of $576 million. | Business, general | |
EC moves to spur more competition in phone services. (European Community's telecommunications services market to be partially deregulated) | Business, general | Mark M. Nelson |
End of an era: new computer firms, font of big fortunes, grow increasingly rare; technology shift, high costs scare venture capitalists from makers of hardware. Another opening for Japan? | Business, general | |
Fax machine craze sends a message of opportunity. (new services, technologies feed facsimile boom) | Business, general | Udayan Gupta |
Finnish electronics firm's bold strategy may be unraveling since 2 acquisitions. (Nokia Oy AB' acquisition of data division of L.M. Ericsson Telefon AB, Standard Elektrik Lorenz AG) | Business, general | Stephen D. Moore |
GE and Telefon Ericsson form venture in mobile cellular telephone systems. (General Electric Co., L.M. Ericsson Telefon AB) | Business, general | Stephen D. Moore, Charles W. Stevens |
Headhunter surmounts big obstacles in race to locate president for Wang. (Thomas Neff; Richard W. Miller) (Who's News) (column) | Business, general | Amanda Bennett |
Hewlett-Packard's Task Broker assigns jobs to computers. (software package) (product announcement) | Business, general | |
Home banking gets another chance; banks hook up to videotex to reach users. (Prodigy Services Co.'s Prodigy) | Business, general | Michael Allen |
House panel to examine how Pentagon handled computer contracts with IBM. | Business, general | Andy Pasztor |
IBM asks firms to make cards for PS/2 line. (adapter card s for Micro Channel-based microcomputers) | Business, general | Bill Paul |
IBM expected to try to bring order to software chaos. (IBM helps with corporate software development backlog problem) | Business, general | Paul Carroll |
IBM to reduce radiation from future VDT models. (video display terminal) (Technology) (column) | Business, general | Bill Paul |
Kodak optical disk stores more data than other devices. (Kodak ADL 560 14-inch optical disk) (product announcement) | Business, general | Peter Pae |
Luft resigns post as Nixdorf chairman; Nasko to succeed him at computer firm. (Klaus Luft, Nixdorf Computer AG, Horst Nasko) | Business, general | Terence Roth |
MAI Basic ends bid to take over Prime Computer. (MAI Basic Four Inc.) | Business, general | David J. Jefferson |
MAI Basic to post 'significant' loss for third quarter. (MAI Basic Four Inc.) | Business, general | David J. Jefferson |
MCI's new marketing chief moves fast to realign management, sales strategy. (MCI Communications Corp., Kevin Sharer) | Business, general | Mary Lou Carnevale |
Microsoft posts 36% earnings rise for its 1st period. | Business, general | G. Christian Hill |
Mind what you say; they're listening. (technology and eavesdropping) | Business, general | Jill Abramson |
Nasdaq composite sets another high as technology stocks return to favor. (Nasdaq Composite Index) (Over-the-Counter Focus) | Business, general | Sonja Steptoe, Craig Smith |
NCR net income decreased 10% in third period. | Business, general | |
Newport Electronics chairman is taking stand against board; Weekes to tender his shares to bidder, but directors recommend a rival offer. (Chairman Barret B. Weekes to tender Newport Electronics Inc shares to High Technology Corp, but Newport Electronics is making a competitive bid) | Business, general | Jill Bettner |
Newspapers warily study fax editions.; big drawback: most machines aren't in homes. | Business, general | Patrick M. Reilly |
Nintendo-Atari zapping contest goes to Washington. (antitrust allegations, possible federal investigation) | Business, general | G. Christian Hill |
Nintendo envisions coast-to-coast matches for players. (Nintendo of America Inc.) | Business, general | Anne Newman |
Nintendo, Fidelity to develop jointly financial software. (Nintendo Co.; Fidelity Investments) | Business, general | Christopher J. Chipello |
Northern Telecom is set to unveil fiber-optic line. (Northern Telecom Ltd's FiberWorld family of fiber-optic switching and transmission products) (Technology & Medicine) | Business, general | Suzanne McGee, Julie Amparano Lopez |
Olivetti introduces computer based on Intel 486 chip. (Ing. C. Olivetti & Co.) (Technology) | Business, general | Laura Colby |
Other agencies say no soap to Treasury's push for high-tech tracking of money laundering. (Politics & Policy) | Business, general | Paul M. Barrett |
Palm-top computers get thumbs down, shunned by people as costly, confusing. | Business, general | Michele Manges |
Prodigy service in Northeast to be delivered by Nynex. (banking at home) | Business, general | Julie Amparano Lopez, John L. Keller |
Program trading index of Big Board fell last month. (New York Stock Exchange report) | Business, general | |
Schools giving TV warmer reception. (Education) | Business, general | Gary Putka |
Sematech funds don't face cut, Bush aide says. (semiconductor manufacturing consortium) | Business, general | Bob Davis |
Silicon Graphics gets two U.S. jobs valued at over $100 million. | Business, general | |
Softsel to acquire Microamerica Inc. in share exchange. (Softsel Computer Products Inc.) | Business, general | Jeff Rowe |
Tandy net fell 3.3% in quarter to $62.8 million. | Business, general | Karen Blumenthal |
Tandy posts flat net for its 4th quarter; revenue grew 10%. | Business, general | |
Telerate and Dow Jones discuss dispute on share price but offer is unchanged. | Business, general | David B. Hilder, Patrick Reilly |
Telerate Inc. results to fall to break-even in the fourth quarter. | Business, general | |
Telesphere International to post net for 2nd period after 3 quarters of losses. (Telesphere International expects to report earnings that will surpass break-even goal for second quarter) | Business, general | Andrew Patner |
Unisys to unveil image processor for banks to help handle checks. (Technology) | Business, general | |
Unitrode chip ban imposed by U.S.; loss for year seen. (Defense Department issues 'stop shipment' order because of quality control questions) | Business, general | Lawrence Ingrassia |
U.S. discloses sweeping probe into IBM jobs. (General Services Administration investigates wrongdoings on government contracts) | Business, general | Andy Pasztor |
U.S. Memories says IBM to grant access to chip-making data. | Business, general | |
Vancouver Stock Exchange's floor-trading era ends next month with full computerization. | Business, general | Gary Lamphier |
Wang Labs sees further growth in the Far East. (Wang Laboratories Inc.) | Business, general | Steven Jones |
Wang Labs to reduce work force 8%, take $30 million charge in 2nd period. (Wang Laboratories Inc.) | Business, general | Suzanne Alexander |
Western Digital had $2.7 million loss in its 1st period due partly to weather. | Business, general | Jeff Rowe |
West provinces warn Canada on widening of phone jurisdiction. | Business, general | |
Working at home has yet to work out. | Business, general | Thomas R. King |
Wrong way to save chip industry. (government aid to protect semiconductor production) | Business, general | Andrew Rappaport |
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