Investor's Business Daily articles from April 2000

Investor's Business Daily archives from April 2000

High-Protein Diets Are The Latest In Cuisine.
April 28, 2000... Byline: Larry Olmsted, Investor's Daily Americans on diets are high on protein and low on carbohydrates these days, thanks to popular diet books and programs like The Zone and the Atkins diet. Sorestaurants and hotels across the country...

Track Groups For Signs Of New Leadership.
April 28, 2000... Byline: Christina Wise, Investor's Daily Internets dominated the first part of the last big bull run-up. Biotechs ruled the second. Today, like faded high school football stars, both groups canonly brag of their past deeds. The stocks on...

Entrepreneur Robin Springer - Persistence Fueled Search To Help Those With Disabilities Help Themselves.
April 28, 2000... Byline: Amy Reynolds Alexander, Investor's Daily In 1992, Robin Springer felt as if her life were being signed away. She was just 26 years old, and her doctor was pulling out his pen to verify her as permanently disabled. At work the pain...

Automaker Walter P. Chrysler - He Combined Long View, Quick Actions To Build His Business.
April 28, 2000... Byline: Curt Schleier, Investor's Daily Walter P. Chrysler almost didn't make it into the automobile industry. He'd built a substantial reputation for mechanical and management skills in the railroad business. But in 1911, he was...

Computers Made Plain - Web Site Running Slow In Seattle? Company, Software Can Help Out.
April 28, 2000... Byline: Nancy Gondo, Investor's Daily Have you ever tried to buy a product online and later decided it would have been faster to drive to the store and pick it up yourself? As a consumer, you know what it's like when you have problems...

AT&T Wireless Offers Bearings In Rough Seas - Investors helped the blue chip tracking stock post a modest rise, but the outlook for other IPO hopefuls remains mixed.
April 28, 2000... Byline: Jed Graham and Reinhardt Krause, Investor's Daily Wall Street's wireless infatuation continued Thursday as investors bit at AT&T Wireless Group's $ 10 billion initial public offering - the biggest IPO inU.S. history. Even some...

Tale Of Two Chipmakers: Somber Intel, Rosy AMD.
April 28, 2000... Byline: James DeTar, Investor's Daily Intel's Prospects For The Current Quarter: * Intel revenue for the second quarter (March-June) will be about flat with first quarter revenue of $ 8 billion. * Gross margin in the second quarter is...

'Intel Of Printing' Envisions Offices In Color Everywhere.
April 28, 2000... Byline: Patrick Seitz, Investor's Daily Electronics For Imaging Inc. is betting that companies will be doing a lot more color printing soon, thanks to the Internet. The Foster City, Calif.-basedcompany, sometimes called the Intel of the...

SILICON ALLEY - From Living Room Bookseller To Net Guru.
April 28, 2000... Byline: Doug Tsuruoka, Investor's Daily Jack Hidary's first job was selling books from his family home in New York City. It wasn't a great business start for a man who would become an Internet pioneer. Maybe mom yelled at the teen a bit...

MULTIMEDIA - The Next Tech Battleground: Airline Seats.
April 28, 2000... Byline: Tony Kontzer, Investor's Daily A partnership of News Corp. and a Rockwell Corp. unit is targeting one of themost captive audiences - airline passengers. Their newly formed In-Flight Network plans by late next year to offer...

Fed's Belief In The New Economy Tested By Rip-Roaring U.S. Growth - It's a slam dunk the Fed will hike interest rates. The only questions are, how much and how fast?
April 28, 2000... Byline: Ira Carnahan, Investor's Daily The Federal Reserve has raised short-term interest rates five times in the past 10 months. The goal: to cool an economy it fears is too hot. But is it? Many who believe that it is point first to the...

Authors Leonard, Swap On Group Creativity.
April 28, 2000... Byline: Jim Christie, Investor's Daily You've probably heard that in the new economy, there's an emphasis on hiring and grooming creative employees. Professors Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap saythere also ought to be emphasis on...

E-COMMERCE - Internet Businesses Customize To Survive.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Donna Howell, Investor's Daily Doing business online is like a box of chocolates. Give people the flavors they want, and they'll bite. Fannie May Candies found that one out. Online sales tripled when the Chicago-based confectioner...

INTERNET SECURITY - When It Comes To ID, The Eyes Don't Lie.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Thomas York, Investor's Daily By Thomas York Viisage Technology Inc. says the solution to Net security is as plain as the nose on your face. Literally. Viisage believes facial recognition technology, an evolving niche of...

March Durable Goods Orders - Surged; Interest Rate Hikes Are Shrugged Off Electronics orders, which include computers, led the way. But gains were seen across the board.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Charles Oliver, Investor's Daily Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods rose in March for the first time this year, led by a big jump in demand for electronic equipment.After two straight months of declines,...

PaineWebber's Marron On Today's Brokerage.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Gerry Achstatter, Investor's Daily The brokerage industry is feasting on a growth in U.S. household assets that should continue uninterrupted for years. At the same time, the Financial Modernization Act of 1999 has made it...

Eaton Corp. Plans To Spin Off Chip-Gear Division By Late June.
April 27, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Eaton To Spin Off Unit, Names Successor CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Industrial equipment maker Eaton Corp. Wednesday said it planned to spin off its semiconductor equipment business by year-end, starting with an...

Drkoop.com, Seeking Buyers, Gets Cost Relief.
April 27, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Shares of Drkoop.com doubled in afternoon trading Wednesday, a day after the company said it was nearly out of cash but had renegotiated several portal deals to slow its burn rate. Shares of the Internet-based...

Huge Fighter Jet Order Is Likely To Be Split By Lockheed, Boeing.
April 27, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Lockheed CEO: Pentagon Splitting Giant Order For Stealth Jet NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp. CEO Vance Coffman said Wednesday the Pentagonwas likely to split an order worth as much as $ 200 billion...

Motorola Founder Paul V. Galvin - Took Calculated Risks To Build His Company Into A Communications Giant.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Curt Schleier, Investor's Daily Paul Galvin spent the 1920s racking up failed businesses: a battery-making company and another firm that made battery eliminators. Battery eliminators allowed people to hook up a battery-powered...

History Lessons On The Art Of Leadership.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Morey Stettner, Investor's Daily Some of the best examples of strong leadership lurk within the pages of history books. While today's leaders are sometimes labeled "change managers" with "vision," those from the past simply...

Look For New Leaders As Market Languishes.
April 27, 2000... Byline: David Saito-Chung, Investor's Daily With techs well below their March highs and blue chips battling for their lives, is now a good time to take an eye off the market? Hardly. As the market regains its footing, new leaders set up...

Zomax's James Anderson - His Laserlike Focus Pushed The CD-ROM Maker To The Top.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Christopher L. Tyner, Investor's Daily In autumn 1998, James Anderson, chairman and chief executive of Zomax Inc., sat down with his senior managers and advisers to figure out a way to buy the rival CD-ROM-making business that...

Computers Made Plain - Shocking But True: PCs Can Read, With The Help Of Special Software.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Lynn Walford, Investor's Daily Optical character recognition software sounds like a dream. It enables you tochange printed documents into computer files easily. Here's how it works: A document is scanned and transferred to your...

Net Consultants Aim To Redeem With Numbers - Will investors change their tune about beaten-down Web designers, marketers and the like after a good first quarter?
April 27, 2000... Byline: Matthew Benjamin, Investor's Daily For Internet consulting companies, 2000 has been a rough year. Investors began unloading their once-hot Net stocks in mid-February. Then came the broad market pullback this month. The one-two...

MCI WorldCom Eyes Spot In Web-Hosting Segment.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Reinhardt Krause, Investor's Daily What separates the men from the boys in Web-hosting services, one of the Internet's fastest growing markets? MCI WorldCom Inc. says it's fat communications pipes. And that figures. The phone...

Storage Leader EMC Sizzles As Web Fuels Data Bonanza.
April 27, 2000... Byline: Rex Crum, Investor's Daily It may not seize the attention of many sexier tech industries, but data storage is often viewed as the secret key to doing business online.And with nearly every company looking at the Internet as the key...

Madame Beatrice Alexander Behrman - Innovating Helped Her Build Company, Become The 'First Lady Of Dolls'.
April 26, 2000... Byline: Kathryn Linderman, Investor's Daily Beatrice Alexander Behrman believed in dreams and in making them come true. Behrman, or Madame Alexander, as she was called, saw how children loved dolls. Her father owned the first "doll...

Levi Strauss' Walter Haas Jr. - Getting View From The Ground Up Helped Him To Grow Out.
April 26, 2000... Byline: Curt Schleier, Investor's Daily For Walter Haas Jr. the difference between good and bad executives wasn't howoften they made right decisions but what they did after they made wrong ones. "If you flip a coin 1,000 times, it's...

Computers Made Plain - File Transfer Protocol Paves Way For Sharing, Sending Files And Data.
April 26, 2000... Byline: Nancy Gondo, Investor's Daily Ever want to put a file online so you, colleagues or family can get to it easily? Need to send a large chunk of data to someone, but you're stuck on the road with just a Palm hand-held computer? Or...

Andersen Firm Joins Sun Micro - Just the latest pact involving a Big 5 outfit's attempt to gain some of the riches promised by electronic-business era.
April 26, 2000... Byline: Matthew Benjamin, Investor's Daily Who can build the best mousetrap? That's the relevant question in the field of business-to-business electronic commerce. Everyone knows the business will be huge, with sales of as much as $ 7.5...

AT&T Wireless Hoping Investors Wired For IPO.
April 26, 2000... Byline: Reinhardt Krause, Investor's Daily Apples don't fall far from the tree, the saying goes. Nor do tracking stocks stray far from their parent company's strategy and goals. That'll be the case with AT&T Corp., which plans to issue a...

PC Maker Micron's Makeover Targets E-Commerce Services.
April 26, 2000... Byline: Nick Turner, Investor's Daily Micron Electronics Inc. isn't content to be the also-ran of direct computer sales. Overshadowed by Dell Computer Corp. and Gateway Inc., the Nampa, Idaho-based manufacturer wants to forge its own...

SERVERS - One Size Doesn't Fit All For IBM, Dell.
April 26, 2000... Byline: Rex Crum, Investor's Daily IBM Corp. and Dell Computer Corp. are chasing the same customers with a series of new business computers. But that's about all the two rivals have in common. When it comes to servers - central computers...

SILICON VALLEY - Companies, Schools Do Math: Tech Pays.
April 26, 2000... Byline: Teri Sprackland, Investor's Daily The division starts with a simple fact: There are more jobs than qualified people in Silicon Valley. Employers are eager to fill technology jobs, so they offer great pay and benefits and stock...

IBM Holders Nix Bid For Traditional Pension Employees' Push Followed Adoption Of A 'Cash Balance' Plan.
April 26, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily IBM Shareholders Reject Return To Traditional Pensions CLEVELAND (AP) - IBM Corp. shareholders rejected Tuesday an employee-driven effort to force the company to offer its traditional pension plan to all...

Int'l Paper Offering $ 6.2 Billion In Cash, Stock For Champion.
April 26, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily International Paper Bids $ 6.2 Billion For Champion From IBD News Services NEW YORK - International Paper Co., the world's leading paper maker, is bidding$ 6.2 billion in cash and stock to acquire rival...

As Trade Deficit Hits New Records, Should We Fret Over Sea Of Red Ink? - Not yet, most experts say. But if foreign investors sell their dollar holdings, things could get very ugly.
April 26, 2000... Byline: Charles Oliver, Investor's Daily The U.S. trade deficit soared to a record $ 29.2 billion in February, as Americans' demand for imported oil hit an all-time high while exports slipped. The Commerce Department said the deficit...

For Women Climbing The Corporate Ladder.
April 26, 2000... Byline: Jim Christie, Investor's Daily Women are advancing through the corporate ranks, though not without running into obstacles, says Carol Gallagher, who heads the Executive Women's Alliance.Gallagher just published a book based on...

Consumer Sentiment Fell In April; Third Straight Month Of Decline.
April 26, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Consumer Confidence Slips For 3rd Month, But Outlook Still Strong NEW YORK (AP) - Consumer confidence slipped in April for the third consecutive month as the stock market staged a sharp retreat, but Americans...

Clinton To Editors: My Impeachment May Have 'Saved The Constitution'.
April 26, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily There are times when I moan with shame for my profession. The most recent such occasion was President Clinton's appearance before the American Society ofNewspaper Editors. Asked if he would accept or seek a...

High Court To Decide If Boy Scouts Can Bar Gays From Leadership Roles.
April 26, 2000... Byline: Kevin Butler, Investor's Daily James Dale was an accomplished Boy Scout. Over his 10 years with the group, he earned 25 merit badges and won its highest honor - the Eagle Scout badge. After Dale turned 18, his superiors deemed him...

GOING AFTER MICROSOFT.
April 26, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily While the public was getting its fill of military-garbed federal agents usingthe cover of darkness to yank Elian Gonzalez from his great-uncle's home, we learned their wool-suited, desk-riding counterparts in...

A TALE OF TWO PHOTOS.
April 26, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily The terrified child, the fierce government agent, staring at each other in a closet in a private home over a fully automatic weapon. It couldn't help but touch anyone who saw it. It also couldn't help raise...

Internet Funds Have Varied Temperaments - Specialization May Make Some New Funds More Volatile.
April 26, 2000... Byline: Paul Katzeff, Investor's Daily Investing in their perilous sector, Internet funds are the investment world'stightrope walkers - working without a net. One slip by a manager, and look outbelow! But even within this sector, funds...

Zero-Coupon Bond Funds Stage Strong Rally - Fed's Inflation Policy, Dwindling Supply Are Bolstering Prices.
April 26, 2000... Byline: Claire Mencke, Investor's Daily Some of the top-ranked funds this month - and for much of the year to date - have one distinguishing feature. They hold large amounts of zero-coupon government bonds. The managers of these funds...

Big China Orders Boost Copper; Energy Takes A Hit, Cattle Rise.
April 26, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Copper futures surged to a three-week high Tuesday on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange as China's buying interest revived a slumping price. In other commodity markets, crude oil and...

Rising Techs, Strong Econ Data Team Up To Knock Down Bonds.
April 26, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Reuters U.S. Treasury prices fell sharply on Tuesday as stocks surged and worries grew that forthcoming economic data may prompt the Federal Reserve to tap the monetary brakes with more interest rate...

Solectron Powers Up With Assets; Short Circuit Feared By Wall Street.
April 26, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily If Solectron Corp.'s recent announcement to buy $ 900 million worth of new manufacturing assets proved nothing else, it showed the company has the buying clout to make deals most competitors can't. The...

Internet A Boon For Job-Search Networking.
April 26, 2000... Byline: Lia Haberman, Investor's Daily Slap on a cyber-worthy smile and crank up the charm. Networking is all the rage whether you're desperately seeking a different job or still satisfied withthe one you have. "Advances in technology are...

Rallies Need Leaders, Not Lots Of Followers.
April 26, 2000... Byline: Ed Carson, Investor's Daily When fewer and fewer stocks take part in a rally, many investors view that asa sign the market is in trouble. Sounds good in theory, but it doesn't work well in practice. The advance-decline line has...

Comedian Jack Benny - Putting Himself In The Audience's Place Made Him The Master Of Mirth.
April 25, 2000... Byline: Cord Cooper, Investor's Daily When Jack Benny's television series premiered on CBS in October 1950, Benny was still one of radio's most popular comedians. He was wary of television - but had a strategy for long-term success in...

Baseball Player Mike Schmidt - Study And Practice Helped Him Excel.
April 25, 2000... Byline: Michael Mink, Investor's Daily It was 1973, and Mike Schmidt's young career looked as if it were tanking. Hehit only .196 for the Philadelphia Phillies in his rookie season that year. Healso struck out 136 times in his 367...

Justices Question Calif.'s Open Primary Rules - They Also Uphold Federal Oversight Of ATMs, Reject Gaming Plea.
April 25, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Supreme Court justices Monday vigorously questioned the legitimacy of California's "blanket primary" system that lets voters cast their ballots for any party's candidates. In other action, the court also:...

Computers Made Plain - Web Sites Hammer Home The Fact That Anyone Can Be A Handyman.
April 25, 2000... Byline: Julie Mitchell, Investor's Daily Sooner or later, the home improvement bug bites people who own homes. Whetheryou're renovating a fixer-upper or just putting up some shelves and slapping on new paint, most of us could use a little...

Investors Worry King Microsoft Shares of the tech leader fall, but analysts blame fears of slowing sales growth more than worries of any breakup.
April 25, 2000... Byline: Nick Turner, Investor's Daily Fears of a court-ordered breakup rattled Microsoft Corp. watchers Monday. Buta sell-off in the company's shares was largely triggered by a less dramatic revelation - that Microsoft may be entering a...

Businesses Prove The Focus Of Big Digital Camera Sales.
April 25, 2000... Byline: Patrick Seitz, Investor's Daily Picture this. Digital cameras are finally taking off. But it's not picture-crazy consumers who are leading the charge - it's businesses. That's how the digital camera market is developing, analysts...

Will MarchFirst Prove Start Of Big Trend In Net Services?
April 25, 2000... Byline: Matthew Benjamin, Investor's Daily Investors don't seem to like the idea, but it may be the future. What idea? Combining different types of computer services firms to provide one, holistic services provider. MarchFirst Inc. is the...

E-COMMERCE - Online Credit Card Security Gets A Charge.
April 25, 2000... Byline: Donna Howell, Investor's Daily Many, if not most, consumers still fear buying things online. But more companies are developing new approaches to e-commerce security. Two of every three Web users worry about using their credit...

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS - FlashPoint Aims To Unify Digital Cameras.
April 25, 2000... Byline: Patrick Seitz, Investor's Daily A San Jose, Calif., company backed by America Online Inc. and Hewlett-PackardCo. has rounded up a who's who of camera makers to support its software for digital cameras. FlashPoint Technology Inc....

Lucent Snares Boeing CFO Deborah Hopkins - She's Credited With Bringing Fiscal Discipline To Aerospace Firm.
April 25, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Lucent Technologies Inc., the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker, said on Monday it named Deborah Hopkins, the chief financial officer of aerospace giant Boeing Co., as its own CFO. Hopkins...

Vioxx, Zocor Fuel Merck's 17% Gain In Profit.
April 25, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Merck & Co.'s earnings rose 17% in the first quarter, more than expected, driven by strong sales of a new arthritis drug, Vioxx, and its cholesterol-lowering pill, Zocor. "Sales growth for the quarter was led...

With Five Rate Hikes Under Its Belt, What Is The Fed Looking At Now? - Some sectors slowed, some have not; some likely will, some may not. Here's how it looks now.
April 25, 2000... Byline: Charles Oliver and M. Susan Basas, Investor's Daily The economy is running too hot, the Federal Reserve warns. At 4.4%, GDP growth is well above the 3.5% speed limit - the strongest growth possible without sparking inflation....

Employees' Stock Options Not All Gravy.
April 25, 2000... Byline: M. Susan Basas, Investor's Daily How are employers coping with the tightest labor market in 30 years? Many areturning to stock options, especially smaller companies with thinner pockets but big potential. A recent survey showed...

Independent Counsel Seeks Data In Probe Of White House E-Mail.
April 25, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Independent Counsel Robert Ray has issued a grand jury subpoena to the National Archives to determine whether White House officials tried to obstruct investigations ranging from Whitewater to Monica Lewinsky...

Clinton's Prejudice Toward Beijing Could Pave Way For Asian Conflict.
April 25, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Jack Wheeler Let's say there's this loan shark. Everyone in the neighborhood is terrified of him. Then one day a fellow stands up to him. "You'll pay up or you'll get your legs broken," the loan shark...

U.S. Ponders Rules On Biotech Food, Despite Scientific Findings It's Safe.
April 25, 2000... Byline: John Berlau, Investor's Daily Last month, biotech stocks tumbled after President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that biotech companies should make "raw fundamental data" public. After Clinton clarified...

MIAMI'S DISTURBING QUESTIONS.
April 25, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Our constitutional system, by design, inconveniences government. It presumes the supremacy of individual liberty. It deliberately discourages the use of overwhelming force against peaceable citizens....

BEYOND THE ELIAN RAID.
April 25, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily especially the pundit class - abhors a vacuum. And if the gun-toting federal agents in their full-metal jackets had not snatched the 6-year-old from his relatives' home in Miami, the media would have found...

Scudder's Chin Sees New Focus On Profit - 21st Century Growth's Manager Looks For 25% Growth Rate.
April 25, 2000... Byline: Dan Moreau, Investor's Daily Peter Chin takes April's market volatility with the perspective of a, well, 21st century investor. For the manager of Scudder 21st Century Growth Fund, thepast isn't just prologue, it's a matter of...

Russia's Back, Platinum Crashes; Soybeans Get A Lift, Coffee Sags.
April 25, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Platinum prices plunged 5% Monday on the New York Mercantile Exchange in a continuing sell-off marking Russia's apparent return to the export market. In other commodity futures markets, soybeans bounced...

Short-Term Notes Buck Trend By Rising Amid Shaky Markets.
April 25, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Reuters Shorter-term U.S. Treasuries inched higher on Monday afternoon in thin trading as technology stocks fell sharply and as market players braced forstrong economic data expected to be released later...

Taking Cues From Talking Heads? Market Offers Best Advice In Bear.
April 25, 2000... Byline: Ed Carson, Investor's Daily The day the Nasdaq peaked and reversed, Prudential Securities market analyst Bryan Piskorowski encouraged investors to buy on corrections. In fact, he suggested investors should do this automatically,...

Getting The Most From A Trade-Show Booth.
April 25, 2000... Byline: Tim Haddock, Investor's Daily Crowds mob your trade-show booth to leave business cards for a chance to win a big- screen TV. You congratulate yourself on generating 6,000 leads. Two weeks later, your frustrated sales staff dumps...

If Crowd Goes One Way, You Go The Other.
April 25, 2000... Byline: Christina Wise, Investor's Daily When the herd is headed one way, taking your own path is often the best option. Nowhere is that more true than with the market's psychological indicators. They tell you what the investment flock is...

Put/Call Ratio Helps You Find Market Bottom.
April 24, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Put/Call RatioCan Alert You To Market Bottoms No matter how long or deep the fall, the stock market always finds a bottom. But when it does, investors aren't elated or calm. They're angry, or scared out of...

Lego Founder Ole Kirk Christiansen - He Fused Quality And Vision To Help Build A Beloved Global Toy Company.
April 24, 2000... Byline: David Saito-Chung, Investor's Daily Ole Kirk Christiansen was facing the toughest decision of his career: Continue his job as the best builder in town and wait for better times, or set out on a brand-new path. It was 1931, and...

Gymnast Mary Lou Retton - Focus, Practice, Optimism Made Her An Olympic Champion.
April 24, 2000... Byline: Curt Schleier, Investor's Daily Mary Lou Retton believes people can accomplish anything they set their minds to. In fact, she's proved it. Retton injured her knee badly just six weeks before the 1984 Olympics. Doctors told her she...

Computers Made Plain - PC Editing Products Make It Easier To Help Videos Tell A Better Story.
April 24, 2000... Byline: Ted Needleman, Investor's Daily Have you ever wished your home videos could look as good as those done by thepros? Sure, video production requires skills that need to be learned and polished. But you can turn those piles of...

Regional Bells Ring Up Some Big Data BellSouth says growth in data services exceeded its gains in traditional voice fields; SBC and Bell Atlantic are next up.
April 24, 2000... Byline: Reinhardt Krause, Investor's Daily Strong demand for data and wireless phone services could be just what the doctor ordered for ailing share prices in local phone companies. BellSouth Corp. Thursday said its first-quarter profit...

Web Portals See Wireless Window Of Opportunity.
April 24, 2000... Byline: Pete Barlas, Investor's Daily Use of Web enabled cell phones, palm controlled devices and 2-way pagers in the U.S. is set to explode. Web portals have seen their future - and it's not being shown on a computer screen. Over the...

Ex-CNN Anchor Sets Sights On Virtual Missions To Mars.
April 24, 2000... Byline: Pete Barlas, Investor's Daily Like many people, Lou Dobbs took a special interest in space exploration in 1997, when NASA's Pathfinder mission took the best photos yet of Mars. But whenthe mission ended, the longtime journalist,...

INTERNET - Avis Europe To Drive Used Cars To Web.
April 24, 2000... Byline: Pete Barlas, Investor's Daily What does Europe's top car rental company do when it needs to sell off thousands of used cars in a hurry? Go online, of course. That's what Avis Europe PLC, the U.K.-based counterpart to Avis Rent A...

SEMICONDUCTORS - Buy Expands Fairchild Family Of Products.
April 24, 2000... Byline: James DeTar, Investor's Daily Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. saw an opening and grabbed it, saying this month it will buy QT Optoelectronics for $ 100 million. The company got what itwanted, at what one analyst called a good price....