Learning to live with a technology correction

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Technology stock buyers in late Aug 1998 and early Sep 1998 will determine how to make portfolio adjustments in the wake of the Aug 1998 market correction. Several ideas are taking hold in the volatile technology sector, as some companies now are more affordable. Some believe that leading technology companies, which remain relatively expensive, will continue to represent strong investments because they can outdistance the competition. Microsoft, Intel and Dell Computer fall into this category, as well as popular Internet stocks like Yahoo and Amazon.com. Second, the correction could reward patient investors, according to James Davidson, a managing director at Hambrecht & Quist. Davidson classifies investors into momentum investors who follow the market movement, and long-term investors who apply fundamentals.

Analysis, Forecasts and trends, Industry trend, Stock-exchange, Stock exchanges, Stock markets, Stock Market

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Gartner Group agrees to buy Dataquest

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Gartner Group, of which Dun & Bradstreet owns 51%, has agreed to buy Dataquest, another unit of Dun & Bradstreet. Both companies are in the computer and high technology market analysis and research field, although Gartner's customers have traditionally been information systems departments of large corporations while Dataquest has focused on software and hardware vendors. Gartner plans to lay off 100 of Dataquest's 500 employees and combine the administrative, management and sales departments of the two companies. The deal calls for $15 million in cash and approximately $60 million in Gartner common stock to be transferred to Dun & Bradstreet, along with warrants for purchase of another $5 million worth of shares. Both Gartner and Dun & Bradstreet stocks rose in value following the news.

Market Research Services, Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling, Commercial nonphysical research, Marketing research firms, DNB, Gartner Inc., Dataquest Inc., D&B Corp.

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Oracle seeks public views on possible bid for Apple

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Oracle chairman and CEO, Larry Ellison is considering acquiring Apple and has set up an Internet site to gauge public opinion on the possibility. If Oracle does acquire the company, Ellison and Steven P. Jobs, Apple's co-founder, would both hold positions on Apple's board, but neither would have executive titles. Many analysts do not believe Ellison is serious in his contemplation of the acquisition, claiming he would not bother with the public's opinion and just go ahead with the acquisition if he wanted to do it. Other analysts feel such a move might be seen positively by investors, based on Oracle's aggressiveness and the fact it is so well managed. Apple did not have an official response to Oracle setting up a polling site on the Internet.

Computer industry, AAPL, Web sites (World Wide Web), Oracle Corp., ORCL, Apple Inc., Company Web Site/Web Page

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