The Wall Street Journal Western Edition 1993 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
3Com's shares plunge 30% after firm discloses 4th-period shortfalls. | Business, general | Bill Richards |
Alliance talks cool at EDS, British Telecom. (Electronic Data Systems Corp., British Telecommunications PLC) | Business, general | Joseph B. White, John J. Keller |
An anti-virus crusader gets infected. (McAfee Associates)(OTC Focus) | Business, general | William Power |
Apple picks Spindler as chief for rough days ahead. (Michael Spindler) | Business, general | Ken Yamada, G. Pascal Zacharay |
Apple's failure to win Japanese order reflects barriers for computer makers. | Business, general | David P. Hamilton, Yumiko Ono |
As Blyth continues transformation to software firm, investors take notice. (Blyth Holdings Inc.) | Business, general | Laurie Delater Weeks |
As IBM's woes grew, its accounting tactics got less conservative; firm aggressively recorded shipments as sales, used rare leasing 'insurance;' company defends its moves. | Business, general | Michael W. Miller, Lee Berton |
As its borrowing expenses grow, IBM plans new measures to raise, save cash. (Heard on the Street) (Column) | Business, general | Laura Jereski |
Ask Group results trailed estimates in its 3rd period. | Business, general | Michael J. Ybarra |
Atmel harnesses cash, skill to battle big chip makers; tiny start-up caters to the portable market and avoids red ink. (Company Profile) | Business, general | Timothy L. O'Brien |
AT&T, China set broad pact on phones, gear: firm's role of outsider, tied to 1989 ban, ends; rivals are formidable. | Business, general | John J. Keller, James McGregor |
AT&T's Kahn quits as chief of card unit. (Paul G. Kahn, chief executive officer of AT and T Universal Card Services) | Business, general | Peter Pae |
Bangalore takes on tasks a world away; foreign companies flock to India's high-tech capital. | Business, general | Marcus W. Brauchli |
Bell Atlantic Corp. is expected buy TCI in move valued at over $16 billion; announcement seen today; purchase would link Baby Bell, cable power. (Tele-Communications Inc.) | Business, general | |
Britain's plan to sell BT stake faces hurdles; British Telecom is meeting growing competition, toughened regulation. | Business, general | Shoba Purushothaman |
Bull's Zenith to buy 19.9% of Packard Bell. (Zenith Data Systems) | Business, general | Bob Ortega |
Canon unveils product 'seeds' in bid to grab a piece of computer market. (new technologies revealed) | Business, general | Neela Banerjee |
Century, cable, cellular firm, sees advances. (Century Communications Corp.) | Business, general | Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal |
Childish pursuits pay at Broderbund, home of Carmen Sandiego. (Small Software Companies Crack the Educational Market)(Broderbund Software Inc.) (Company Profile) | Business, general | Carrie Dolan |
Chip maker Cyrix, Intel rival, plans $25.4 million IPO. (initial public offering) | Business, general | Michael Totty |
Chips become big black-market item. | Business, general | Enrique J. Gonzales |
Clinton plans expanded role on technology: U.S. would shift funds from defense research, back specific projects. | Business, general | Bob Davis, Michael K. Frisby |
Clones besiege profit margins of Sound Blaster's parent; Singapore's Creative Technology faces fight for PC sound-card crown. | Business, general | G. Pierre Goad |
Comdisco follows industry fancy in computer choice: lessor plots shift to smaller machines and networks from IBM mainframes. (Company Profile) | Business, general | James P. Miller |
Compaq says computer market in North America faces slowdown. | Business, general | Kyle Pope, David Hamilton P. |
Composite index rises 8.92 points to set a record. (Nasdaq composite index) (OTC Focus) (Column) | Business, general | Dave Pettit |
Computer message prompts libel suit. (Legal Beat) (Column) | Business, general | Arthur S. Hayes |
Creative destruction at IBM. (Column) | Business, general | Mark Stahlman |
Cyberspace clash: computer users battle high-tech marketers over soul of Internet; firms believe there is room for ads on vast network, but risk being 'flamed'; Gore's Superhighway project. | Business, general | Steve Stecklow |
Database linking law firms and clients may slash fees. (Counsel Collect online information service from Counsel Connect Inc.) (Legal Beat)(Column) (Product Announcement) | Business, general | Junda Woo |
Dell Computer chops prices on products, indicating that PC war isn't over yet. | Business, general | Scott McCartney |
Dell Computer drops planned share offering. (Company Profile) | Business, general | Michael Siconolfi, Michael Allen |
Dell programs new products, sales strategy. (Dell Computer Corp.) | Business, general | Scott McCartney |
Dell stock loses a quarter of its value on drop in fiscal first-quarter profit. (Dell Computer Corp.) | Business, general | Michael Totty |
Digital, Mitsubishi negotiate accord to make U.S. company's Alpha chip. (DEC, Mitsubishi Electric Corp.) | Business, general | Ron Suskind |
Digital to abandon red brick complex in Maynard, Mass. (Digital Equipment Corp.) | Business, general | Joseph Pereira |
Dumping case against semiconductors from South Korea holds list of lessons. | Business, general | Robert Keatley |
Eastman Kodak may pick chief in six weeks. | Business, general | Joan E. Rigdon |
Electroglas plans to sell shares in public offer; General Signal subsidiary sets program in motion despite drop in results. | Business, general | Udayan Gupta |
Ericsson doubles profit for quarter; cites cellular gear. (Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson) | Business, general | Stephen D. Moore |
Europe's telecom monopolies transform; new rivals and technology spur fight for customers. (Post Telephone & Telegraph Administrations, or PTTs) (International) | Business, general | Bob Hagerty |
Export controls on computers to be relaxed; decision by Clinton is part of an effort to revamp cold war-era controls. | Business, general | Andy Pasztor, John J. Fialka |
Federal Express, UPS face off on computers. (United Parcel Service) | Business, general | Laurie M. Grossman |
FileNet to post surprise loss for 4th period. | Business, general | Frederick Rose |
FileNet to switch strategy in wake of 4th-period woes; computer firm must 'reinvent' itself after changes in industry it founded. (Corporate Focus) (Company Profile) | Business, general | Frederick Rose |
Firm develops superconductor chips for PCs. (experimental data-storage chip from Conductus Inc.) | Business, general | David Stipp |
For Intel, tide is abruptly turning as analysts question whether it can retain profit margin. (Heard on the Street) (Column) | Business, general | Susan Pulliam |
Franklin Electric pins hope on digital book systems. (Franklin Electronic Publishers Inc.) (Company Profile) | Business, general | Lourdes Lee Valeriano |
Gerstner tries to stem flight of top talent as he seeks to achieve an IBM turnaround. (IBM chief executive officer Louis V. Gerstner) | Business, general | |
Growing pains: house of Microsoft has many Windows. (Personal Technology) (Column) | Business, general | Walter B. Mossberg |
GTE slow to join telephone industry refinancing rush: cost of calling its many small bonds often outweighs interest savings. (GTE Corp.)( Corporate Focus) | Business, general | Fred R. Bleakley |
High-tech connection between schools and science expeditions enlivens classes. (adventure learning) | Business, general | Neil Ulman |
High-tech industry's infatuation with Clinton turns to frustration over unkept vows, inaction. | Business, general | Asra Q. Nomani |
IBM appoints Chrysler's York as finance chief. (Jerome York) | Business, general | Michael W. Miller, Douglas Lavin |
IBM gets warm reception for $1.8 billion issue, but loss of top rating forces higher yields. (notes and bonds) (Credit Markets) | Business, general | Thomas T. Vogel Jr., Leslie Scism |
IBM's Gerstner holds back from sales force shake-up. (CEO Louis V. Gerstner) | Business, general | Laurie Hyas |
IBM's OS/2/2.1 debut is modest success, but launch of rival Windows NT looms. | Business, general | Laurie Hays, Michael Wofsey |
IBM's pick is talented but some see flaws in his record at RJR. (new Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Louis Gerstner Jr., formerly of RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp.) | Business, general | George Anders, Michael W. Miller, Laurence Hooper, Eben Shapiro |
IBM won't get two key aides of Gerstner's. (new CEO Louis V. Gerstner Jr,; Karl von der Heyden and Lawrence Ricciardi) | Business, general | George Anders, Michael W. Miller |
In making CD-ROMs, technology proves easy compared with rights negotiations. (compact disc-read only memory) (Multimedia) | Business, general | Meg Cox |
Intel challenges Microsoft as its stock leaps 8.4% | Business, general | Craig Torres, Sara Calian |
Intel factory to grow at cost of $1 billion. | Business, general | Michael J. Ybarra |
Intel's success hasn't taken its mind off Washington. (Business World) (Column) | Business, general | Tim W. Ferguson |
Internet becomes road more travelled as E-mail users discover no usage fees. (nonprofit global network) | Business, general | Steve Stecklow |
Italy's Olivetti plans big increase in capital, indicates wider loss. (Ing. C. Olivetti and C. SpA) | Business, general | Maureen Kline |
JWP to shed information services line, stress its core subcontracting business. | Business, general | Anne Newman |
Korean computer chip makers receive light duties in U.S. dumping ruling. | Business, general | Asra Q. Nomani |
LDDS joins Metromedia, Resurgens deal. (Resurgens Communications Corp., LDDS Communications Inc and Metromedia Co.'s long-distance unit plan merger) | Business, general | Robert J. Brennan |
LDI expects 1st-half results to slide as clients postpone leasing computers. | Business, general | Ralph E. Winter |
Love affairs bloom amid bits and bytes of home computers; Cupid's electronic arrows hit many plugged-in seniors; just call it dial-up-a-date. | Business, general | Clare Ansberry |
Many stocks labeled the 'next Microsoft' haven't measured up to the hype.... (Heard on the Street) (Column) | Business, general | William Power |
McDonnell Douglas Corp. agrees to sell international computer data division. (McDonnell Douglas Information Systems International) | Business, general | Rhonda J. Rundle |
Micrografx expects fourth-period loss, discloses possible criminal acts at unit. | Business, general | Andrea Gerlin |
Microsoft Corp. to buy half of Continuum. (Continuum Productions Corp.) | Business, general | Bill Richards |
Microsoft offers software to link office machines. (Microsoft At Work office automation software) (Technology) (Product Announcement) | Business, general | Sharon Massey |
Microsoft targets software piracy by Japan PC users. | Business, general | David P. Hamilton, Jacob M. Schlesinger |
More big blues as Microsoft's stock-market value could soon pass lead of humbled giant IBM. | Business, general | Sara Calian, Douglas R. Sease |
Nikon outlook is blurry as chip makers lose flash. (demand for key product is off) (Company Profile) | Business, general | Masayoshi Kanabayashi |
Novell's strategy for its Unix system is turned down by two major players. (Santa Cruz Operation and Sun Microsystems Inc.) | Business, general | |
NTT's cutbacks signal uncertain transition in Japan. (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Co.) (Company Profile) | Business, general | David P. Hamilton, Jacob M. Schlesinger |
Off to South Africa: as U.S. firms return to land of apartheid, Lotus feels its way; business there isn't as usual, but Digital Equipment joins rush to invest, too: barring guns at the office. (Lotus Development Corp.) | Business, general | Brett Pulley |
PCs trudge out of the Valley of Death. (the computer industry in transition) (Manager's Journal) (Column) | Business, general | Andrew S. Grove |
PDA devices stage trade-show debut; Apple's Newton maintains a low profile. (personal digital assistants; Consumer Electronics Show) | Business, general | Patrick M. Reilly |
Personal assistants lend users a hand at stroke of a pen. (Personal Technology) (Column) | Business, general | Walter S. Moessberg |
Phone firms likely to post quarterly gains. (second quarter 1993) | Business, general | Gutam Naik |
Poems by the byte: a hacker's garden of verse. (Leisure & Arts)(Chadwyck-Healey's English Poetry Full-Text Database) (Product Announcement) | Business, general | Amy Gamerman |
Policy Management tries to recover from stock plunge; software company is hurt by possibility of health-care reforms. (Policy Management Systems Corp.) (Company Profile) | Business, general | Martha Brannigan |
Privatization of telecommunications clears political roadblock in Turkey. | Business, general | James M. Dorsey |
Prodigy Services, Times Mirror set computer venture. | Business, general | Sarah Lubman |
Publishers design electronic newspapers to keep control of information delivery. | Business, general | Patrick M. Reilly |
Red flags fly over one-product tech companies. (Heard on the Street) (Column) | Business, general | Craig Torres |
Return of the natives: Asia's developing economies lure home high-tech pioneers trained in the U.S. (Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan) (Technology: Finding and Feeding)(The Wall Street Journal Reports) | Business, general | Laurence Zuckerman |
Small software firms crack the educational market; gamelike look, feel make learning easier for kids to swallow. | Business, general | Michael Selz |
SoftKey will acquire Spinnaker, WordStar in a 3-way stock swap. (SoftKey Software Products Inc., WordStar International Inc., Spinnaker Software Corp.; deal will create $244 consumer software firm, may result in large-scale layoffs) | Business, general | John B. Wilke |
Software finds alternative legal shields. (problems with copyright protection) (Legal Beat) (Column) | Business, general | Jonathan M. Moses |
Storage Tek stock jumps on firm's plans to buy Amperif and ship Iceberg system. | Business, general | Andrea Gerlin |
Sun Microsystems' future may be headed for the dusk. (Heard on the Street) (Column) | Business, general | Susan Pulliam |
Tandy bucks retail trend, thinks small. (opening smaller stores) | Business, general | Laura Johannes |
Techies of White House plug in the president and want to attach the cable's other end to you. | Business, general | James M. Perry |
Technologies keep parents tied to school. | Business, general | Sarah Lubman |
Technology threatens to shatter the world of college textbooks; CD-ROM, interactivity, PCs spread while publishers mostly just wait and see; libraries that print to order. | Business, general | Meg Cox |
The day Bill Gates overthrew Big Blue. (Microsoft Chmn Bill Gates, IBM) | Business, general | Paul Carroll |
The lessons of AT&T's cellular move. (purchase of McCaw Cellular Communications Co.) | Business, general | Peter Huber |
TI is spending up to $1 billion on chip facility; resurgent company moves to meet new demand, shorter product cycles. (Texas Instruments Inc.) | Business, general | Hal Lancaster |
Time Warner plans electronic 'superhighway'. | Business, general | Johnnie L. Roberts, Mary Lu Carnevale |
Time Warner sees synergy in partnership. (cable-phone link is promising gamble) (Time Warner joins with US West) | Business, general | Randall Smith, Johnnie L. Roberts, Laura Landro |
U.S. duties on Korean semiconductors raise double-edged sword to dumping. (World Economy) | Business, general | Robert Keatley |
U.S. to launch another inquiry of Microsoft; while FTC drops its probe, Justice Department sets antitrust investigation. (Federal Trade Commission) | Business, general | Paul M. Barrett |
U S West and Time Warner to form strategic alliance: Baby Bell to pay $2.5 billion for stake and a partner in technology footrace. | Business, general | Laura Landro, Mary Lu Carnevale, Johnnie Roberts |
Virtual reality' isn't a fantasy for surgeons. (research into computer simulation for brain surgeons) (In the Lab) | Business, general | Amal Kumar Naj |
Wang's reorganization plan would let company leave Chapter 11 by Sept. 30. (Wang Laboratories Inc.) | Business, general | Suzanne Alexander |
Wang submits plan to become smaller concern. (Wang Laboratories Inc.) | Business, general | Ron Suskind |
Wanted: genius: First, companies identify the creative leaders of tomorrow. Then they woo them. (Technology: Finding and Feeding)(The Wall Street Journal Reports) | Business, general | Thomas E. Weber |
Wide group of companies join project to develop superfast computer network. | Business, general | Barbara Rosewicz |
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