Investor's Business Daily articles from March 2001

Investor's Business Daily archives from March 2001

TRENDSTEXT2.(A)
March 1, 2001... Treating adults with sleep apnea may resolve the symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, said Georgia researchers. Adults withADHD may suffer from the sleeping disorder. Scientists' study of the brain regions that govern the...

TRENDSTEXT.(A)
March 1, 2001... Scientists unravel deadly migration of breast cancer to lungs and bones The answer to why stray cancer cells form secondary tumors lies in molecules called chemokines that carry messages between cells, said Schering-Plough scientists....

WASHINGTON.(A)
March 1, 2001... Court lets poor use gov't lawyers to sue gov't over loss of welfare The 5-4 free-speech Supreme Court ruling overturns a Newt Gingrich-era decisionby Congress to condition federal money for the Legal Services Corp. on a promise not to...

WORLD.(A)
March 1, 2001... Belgrade is taking initial steps toward prosecution of Milosevic The Belgrade prosecutor's office told police to open a probe of Slobodan Milosevic. An official told police to look into reports Milosevic moved more than 400 pounds of...

10SECRETS.(A)
March 1, 2001... The best chief executives and managers seek opposite points of view and aren't afraid to delegate, says former car executive Lee Iacocca. The top leaders give their teams a short list of priorities and a long leash, he writes in "The...

British Gen. Charles George Gordon His Devotion To Faith And Resolve Earned Him A Place Of Honor.(A)(Leaders & Success)
March 1, 2001... Byline: George Neumayr Investor's Business Daily Most soldiers achieve success with victory. Charles George Gordon achieved it with defeat. Considered one of Britain's best soldiers and foreign emissaries, Gordon occupies a...

Political Cartoonist Herb Block His Integrity Keeps The Heat On Politicians.(A)(Leaders & Success)
March 1, 2001... Byline: Michael Richman Investor's Business Daily Herb Block has a rule: What you see is what you get. Block, a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, doesn't waver from his convictions when creating a cartoon. His drawings are...

Wisdom To Live By.(A)(Leaders & Success)
March 1, 2001... {TEXT} Wisdom To Live By . {TEXT} ON PERSEVERANCE When your feet are so tired that you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring, fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to...

Tech Bits.(A)(Internet & Technology)
March 1, 2001... Expedia Lures Online Travelers Off The Beaten Vacation Path Score one for the online travel industry in getting people to pick unusual places to spend their vacations. Web site Expedia Inc. last year persuaded lots of well-heeled...

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Services Give Firms A Better Picture Of Tech Assets.(A)(Internet & Technology)
March 1, 2001... Byline: J. Bonasia Investor's Business Daily As companies look to rein in technology spending, many find they aren't keepingtrack of the software and equipment they already own. The average corporate workstation is running at least...

Ignore Parade Of 'Bargains' In Bear Market.(A)(Investor's Corner)
March 1, 2001... Byline: Jonah Keri Investor's Business Daily A dollar for a lobster dinner. A Lexus at a Toyota price. We're all out there, looking for that killer bargain. Lately, some of the biggest-name stocks may look nearly as appealing....

SEMICONDUCTORS Merced Chip Nears Release, But Intel's Looking Beyond It.(A)(Internet & Technology)
March 1, 2001... Byline: James DeTar Investor's Business Daily By midyear, Intel Corp. will finally ship Merced, the first in a long-awaited line of microprocessors called Itanium. The event may prove confusing for some Intel customers. Merced...

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS Taking New Look At Internet TV EarthLink plans to offer first TV Web service that doesn't require a set-top box.(A)(TEKTOP)
March 1, 2001... Byline: Pete Barlas Investor's Business Daily The future of the Internet is on TV. So says EarthLink Inc., one of the largest consumer Internet service providers in the U.S. This fall, EarthLink could be the first ISP in the...

Xerox Unveils New Printers.(A)(DOWNBUZZ-IT)
March 1, 2001... Buzzword Protocol: A standard way of regulating data transmission between two computers.These procedures must be used by both computers for them to understand each other. Standard protocols include TCP/IP, or transmission control...

Among AT&T's New Moves: Cable TV Swap With Charter.(A)(Internet & Technology)
March 1, 2001... ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (Reuters) - AT&T Broadband, the No. 1 U.S. cable television company, said on Wednesday it will swap cable TV systems with Charter Communications Inc. in a $1.79 billion deal designed to cut its $46 billion debt load and cluster...

CONTENT VIA THE INTERNET Title Movie-Download Conflict: Hollywood Vs. The Pirates.(A)(Internet & Technology)
March 1, 2001... Byline: Patrick Seitz Investor's Business Daily Fearing that movies will be shared over the Internet as readily as music is today, Hollywood studios are moving toward ways for consumers to pay for videosthey download to their personal...

TEKWIRE.(A)
March 1, 2001... NEW YORK (Reuters) - Xerox Corp. on Wednesday unveiled several new printers, asthe troubled company sought to turn investors' focus back toward its core products and away from its accounting and stock price woes. The Stamford, Conn.-based...

E-COMMERCE LOGISTICS It's Getting Easier To Return Items Bought On The Web.(A)(Internet & Technology)
March 1, 2001... Byline: Gary M. Stern Investor's Business Daily Buying an item on the Internet is as easy as clicking once or twice and fillingin a credit card number. But what about returning an item you bought online? Two clicks won't return...

Net Appliances Do The Job For Surfing And E-Mail The devices don't have hard drives, are smaller than personal computers and are easier to use.(A)(Internet & Technology)
March 1, 2001... Byline: Nancy Gondo Investor's Business Daily Growing numbers of people are finding they don't need a full-fledged personal computer just to check e-mail and surf the Web. They're eschewing complex PC specifications like RAM, ROM...

DATA STORAGE BMC Patrols For Better Ways To Manage Network Capacity.(A)(Internet & Technology)
March 1, 2001... Byline: Doug Tsuruoka Investor's Business Daily Robert Beauchamp, BMC Software Inc.'s new president and chief executive, aims to be unpredictable. One of his first acts since becoming CEO on Jan. 5, was to make a bigger push into...

Greenspan Sees Weakness Lingering, Hints Of No Immediate Cut In Rates.(A)(Company In The News)
March 1, 2001... Byline: Donald H. Gold Investor's Business Daily The economy's still in a slowdown, but it's not as bad as it was late in the fourth quarter, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress Wednesdayin remarks that broadly hinted...

Buyers Still Spending Online Despite Economy's Slowdown.(A)(Internet & Technology)
March 1, 2001... Byline: Antonio A. Prado Investor's Business Daily Even with the slowed economy and the dot-com sector enduring an ugly shakeout, retail sales on the Internet surged. They soared 67% year-over-year to $8.69 billion in the fourth...

KEITH COS. /Costa Mesa, California After Thrill Ride, Engineering Firm Settles Down.(A)(The New America)
March 1, 2001... Byline: Tom Gray Investor's Business Daily Thrill rides aren't for everybody. Just ask Aram Keith. Back in the mid-1990s, his engineering firm, Keith Cos., had just been through a brutal downturn in the California real estate...

DRESS BARN INC. /Suffern, New York Retailer Reins In Views After Long Hot Streak.(A)(The New America)
March 1, 2001... Byline: Marilyn Much Investor's Business Daily It's one of those ironies of the retail game. At the same time the folks at Dress Barn Inc. were gloating over the firm's streak of stellar quarterly results, they reined in the year's...

ATLANTIC COAST AIRLINES HOLDINGS INC. /Dulles, Virginia New Pact Puts Airline In Better Business Class.(A)(The New America)
March 1, 2001... Byline: Robin M. Grugal Investor's Business Daily When UAL Corp.'s United Airlines hit some turbulence in the third quarter of last year, Atlantic Coast Air Holdings Inc. was forced to ride out the bumps alongside it. The carrier,...

The Real Most Active - NYSE.(A)(The Real Most Active - NYSE)
March 1, 2001... The Real Most Active Investors used the morning's brief rally to dump stocks Wednesday. The Dow industrial average, up 0.5% minutes after the open, closed down 141.60 points, or 1.3%, at 10,495.28. The S&P 500 fell 1.4% to 1239.94 and...

Stocks In The News - NYSE.(A)
March 1, 2001... Lennar rocketed out of a three-month base in late June and climbed 104%. The stock has been cooling its jets the past six weeks, correcting 19%. It's 12% off its peak of 40.75 marked on Jan. 17. The stock has a Relative Price Strength...

The Big Picture.(A)(The Big Picture)
March 1, 2001... THE BIG PICTURE Alan Greenspan confirmed Wednesday what the market suspected Tuesday: Forget about an early interest rate cut before the Fed's March 20 meeting. While answering questions before a House committee, the Fed chairman said...

A DESPERATE REVISIONISM.(A)(EDITTOP)
March 1, 2001... To hear the Democrats talk about President Bush's budget and the last two decades, you have to wonder if they saw the same speech - or inhabit the same world as the rest of us. This blindness to reality may explain why they're having trouble at...

Left In The Buggy: E-Commerce Is Seen As Threat To Slow Middlemen.(A)(GUESTEDIT)
March 1, 2001... Byline: John F. Kerry &||Robert Atkinson||[GUESTLEAD]In the 1920s, the Horse and Mule Association of America vigorously campaigned to limit the use of trucks on public roads and successfully waged a nationwide campaign to prohibit car + parking...

Bush Education Plan Wins Support Of Democrats, Ire Of Bureaucrats.(A)(NAT_ISSUE)
March 1, 2001... Byline: Tom Gray Investor's Business Daily Even if he doesn't win on school choice - and you can't count him out yet - President Bush seems close to getting just about everything he wants in his education reforms. For a president...

IBD's Top 10.(A)(IBD's Top 10 1-50)
March 1, 2001... IBD's TOP 10 Greenspan Tells Congress Slowdown Still Has Legs 1The economic slowdown has yet to run its full course, but the slump isn't as bad now as it was late in the fourth quarter, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told...

Key Fund Holdings.(B)
March 1, 2001... Key Fund Holdings / Genzyme General was a top new buy of Alger MidCap Growth Fund as of the latest reporting period. The stock has been in a basing pattern since peaking at 103.75 on Dec. 8. Since troughing at 68.69, it's worked its way back...

Is It Time To Move To Low-Expense Funds? On average they do better, but some top managers just cost more.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
March 1, 2001... Byline: Pete McKenna Investor's Business Daily As the double- and triple-digit fund returns of years past slip into single digits and worse, expenses are playing a bigger role in returns. Expenses that amount to 1.5% of assets go...

New Method Serves Merrill Lynch Fund Well Global SmallCap paces peers the past two years; Chiang favors U.S.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
March 1, 2001... Byline: Joanne Legomsky Investor's Business Daily When Ken Chiang took the helm of the Merrill Lynch Global SmallCap Fund in April 1998, it signaled a major change in the fund's strategy. The fund no longer would be run by a group...

The Real Most Active - NASDAQ.(B)(The Real Most Active - NASDAQ)
March 1, 2001... The Real Most Active Techs continued spiraling downward Wednesday, as the Nasdaq fell to its lowest level since December 1998. The index attempted to rally higher, but finished the day down 55.99 points, or2.5%, at 2151.83. The Nasdaq...

Stocks In The News - NASDAQ.(B)
March 1, 2001... After advancing nearly threefold from late April to early December, Genzyme General has formed a twelve-week base. It stands 15% off its high. On Monday the biotech firm revised its 2001 revenue projection for Renagel, raising it by almost...

New Export Orders Boost Wheat; Oil Sinks On Greenspan's Outlook.(B)(FUTURES)
March 1, 2001... By Reuters Soybean futures ended higher on Wednesday amid fund buying and spillover support from soyoil, while wheat was higher on fresh exports to Egypt. In other featured commodity trading, crude oil finished at seven-week lows as...

Rates May Not Budge Just Yet, Which Leads To Bonds' Advance.(B)(Credit Markets)
March 1, 2001... By Reuters Treasuries rose on Wednesday as stock markets slumped lower after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan quashed hopes he would signal an immediate interest rate cut to revive a stalled economy. Greenspan, testifying to the...

IBD's Top 10.(A)(After The Close)
March 1, 2001... STARWOOD HOTELS & RESORTS warned first-quarter earnings would fall short of views by a penny, but will meet 2001 estimates. DANAHER sees meeting analysts' first-quarter profit views of 56 cents. The factory automation gear maker said cost...

Business News.(A)(Business News)
March 1, 2001... Gateway refocusing on PC sales, despite earlier push to diversify Gateway CEO and co-founder Ted Waitt said selling PCs will be its top priority - a step back from its strategy of driving profits by selling PC peripherals and services...

Business News.(A)(Business News)
March 1, 2001... AT&T Wireless' new bond sale could hit unexpected $6.5 billion AT&T Wireless Group's proposed bond sale will be 63% more than expected, marketsources said. It would be the largest private bond sale ever conducted by a U.S. company,...

Business News.(A)(Business News)
March 1, 2001... Ex-Cendant officials face charges over 'massive' accounting fraud Former Cendant Chairman Walter Forbes and Vice Chairman Kirk Shelton were accused of criminal fraud and face civil SEC charges. Forbes and Shelton, who both resigned...

Business News.(A)(The Economy)
March 1, 2001... Massachusetts, California rank as best states for finding jobs Both states had the best environments for finding jobs in February, says a report by FlipDog.com, a job site, and its strategic partner, HireStrategy. Thestates had low...

Ignore Parade Of "Bargains' In Bear Market.(A)
March 1, 2001... By Jonah Keri Investor's Business Daily A dollar for a lobster dinner. A Lexus at a Toyota price. We're all out there, looking for that killer bargain. Lately, some of the biggest-name stocks may look nearly as appealing. Cisco at...

Greenspan Sees Weakness Lingering, Hints Of No Immediate Cut In Rates.(A)
March 1, 2001... By Donald H. Gold Investor's Business Daily The economy's still in a slowdown, but it's not as bad as it was late in thefourth quarter, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress Wednesday in remarks that broadly hinted he...

British Gen. Charles George Gordon His Devotion To Faith And Resolve Earned Him A Place Of Honor.(A)
March 1, 2001... Byline: GOOD SOLDIER: Gordon was so brave that Chinese rebel leaders ordered their sharpshooters not to fire at the general. By George Neumayr Investor's Business Daily Most soldiers achieve success with victory. Charles George...

Political Cartoonist Herb Block His Integrity Keeps The Heat On Politicians.(A)
March 1, 2001... By Michael Richman Investor's Business Daily Herb Block has a rule: What you see is what you get. Block, a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, doesn't waver from his convictionswhen creating a cartoon. His drawings are...

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Services Give Firms A Better Picture Of Tech Assets.(A)
March 1, 2001... By J. Bonasia Investor's Business Daily As companies look to rein in technology spending, many find they aren't keeping track of the software and equipment they already own. The average corporate workstation is running at least...

SEMICONDUCTORS Merced Chip Nears Release, But Intel's Looking Beyond It.(A)
March 1, 2001... By James DeTar Investor's Business Daily By midyear, Intel Corp. will finally ship Merced, the first in a long-awaited line of microprocessors called Itanium. The event may prove confusing for some Intel customers. Merced won't be...

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS Taking New Look At Internet TV EarthLink plans to offer first TV Web service that doesn't require a set-top box.(A)
March 1, 2001... By Pete Barlas Investor's Business Daily The future of the Internet is on TV. So says EarthLink Inc., one of the largest consumer Internet service providers in the U.S. This fall, EarthLink could be the first ISP in the U.S....

Xerox Unveils New Printers.(A)
March 1, 2001... Buzzword Protocol: A standard way of regulating data transmission between two computers. These procedures must be used by both computers for them to understand each other. Standard protocols include TCP/IP, or transmission control...

Among AT&T's New Moves: Cable TV Swap With Charter.(A)
March 1, 2001... AT&T Broadband, the No. 1 U.S. cable television company, said on Wednesday it will swap cable TV systems with Charter Communications Inc. in a $1.79 billion deal designed to cut its $46 billion debt load and cluster its cable services in larger...

CONTENT VIA THE INTERNET Title Movie-Download Conflict: Hollywood Vs. The Pirates.(A)
March 1, 2001... By Patrick Seitz Investor's Business Daily Fearing that movies will be shared over the Internet as readily as music is today, Hollywood studios are moving toward ways for consumers to pay for videosthey download to their personal...

E-COMMERCE LOGISTICS It's Getting Easier To Return Items Bought On The Web.(A)
March 1, 2001... By Gary M. Stern Investor's Business Daily Buying an item on the Internet is as easy as clicking once or twice and filling in a credit card number. But what about returning an item you bought online? Two clicks won't return your...

Net Appliances Do The Job For Surfing And E-Mail The devices don't have hard drives, are smaller than personal computers and are easier to use.(A)
March 1, 2001... By Nancy Gondo Investor's Business Daily Growing numbers of people are finding they don't need a full-fledged personal computer just to check e-mail and surf the Web. They're eschewing complex PC specifications like RAM, ROM and...

DATA STORAGE BMC Patrols For Better Ways To Manage Network Capacity.(A)
March 1, 2001... By Doug Tsuruoka Investor's Business Daily Robert Beauchamp, BMC Software Inc.'s new president and chief executive, aims to be unpredictable. One of his first acts since becoming CEO on Jan. 5, was to make a bigger push into...

KEITH COS. /Costa Mesa, California After Thrill Ride, Engineering Firm Settles Down.(A)
March 1, 2001... By Tom Gray Investor's Business Daily Thrill rides aren't for everybody. Just ask Aram Keith. Back in the mid-1990s, his engineering firm, Keith Cos., had just been through a brutal downturn in the California real estate market. He...

DRESS BARN INC. /Suffern, New York Retailer Reins In Views After Long Hot Streak.(A)
March 1, 2001... By Marilyn Much Investor's Business Daily It's one of those ironies of the retail game. At the same time the folks at Dress Barn Inc. were gloating over the firm's streak of stellar quarterly results, they reined in the year's earnings...

ATLANTIC COAST AIRLINES HOLDINGS INC. /Dulles, Virginia New Pact Puts Airline In Better Business Class.(A)
March 1, 2001... By Robin M. Grugal Investor's Business Daily When UAL Corp.'s United Airlines hit some turbulence in the third quarter oflast year, Atlantic Coast Air Holdings Inc. was forced to ride out the bumps alongside it. The carrier, which...

Left In The Buggy: E-Commerce Is Seen As Threat To Slow Middlemen.(A)
March 1, 2001... By John F. Kerry & Robert Atkinson In the 1920s, the Horse and Mule Association of America vigorously campaigned to limit the use of trucks on public roads and successfully waged a nationwide campaign to prohibit car parking on...

Bush Education Plan Wins Support Of Democrats, Ire Of Bureaucrats.(A)
March 1, 2001... By Tom Gray Investor's Business Daily Even if he doesn't win on school choice -- and you can't count him out yet -- President Bush seems close to getting just about everything he wants in his education reforms. For a president who...

Is It Time To Move To Low-Expense Funds? On average they do better, but some top managers just cost more.(B)
March 1, 2001... By Pete McKenna Investor's Business Daily As the double- and triple-digit fund returns of years past slip into single digits and worse, expenses are playing a bigger role in returns. Expenses that amount to 1.5% of assets go...

New Method Serves Merrill Lynch Fund Well Global SmallCap paces peers the past two years; Chiang favors U.S.(B)
March 1, 2001... By Joanne Legomsky Investor's Business Daily When Ken Chiang took the helm of the Merrill Lynch Global SmallCap Fund in April 1998, it signaled a major change in the fund's strategy. The fund no longer would be run by a group of...

New Export Orders Boost Wheat; Oil Sinks On Greenspan's Outlook.(B)
March 1, 2001... By Reuters Soybean futures ended higher on Wednesday amid fund buying and spillover support from soyoil, while wheat was higher on fresh exports to Egypt. In other featured commodity trading, crude oil finished at seven-week lows as...

Rates May Not Budge Just Yet, Which Leads To Bonds' Advance.(B)
March 1, 2001... By Reuters Treasuries rose on Wednesday as stock markets slumped lower after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan quashed hopes he would signal an immediate interest rate cut to revive a stalled economy. Greenspan, testifying to the...

International Funds Laboring Under Strain Of U.S. Slump.(A)(Mutual Weekly Special)
March 2, 2001... Byline: Ken Hoover Investor's Business Daily It's a cliche, but it's often true: When the U.S. sneezes, the rest of the world catches cold. That was the problem in February as the world's stock markets sagged under the weight of a...

MSDW Buys Verizon, Fannie Mae And BEA Fund group is big seller of Intel, Pfizer and Cisco in 3rd quarter.(B)(Mutual Weekly Special)
March 2, 2001... Byline: Leo Fasciocco Investor's Business Daily The Morgan Stanley Dean Witter fund family was a big buyer of Verizon Communications in the third quarter. The buying had a touch of bargain-hunting to it. The stock rose smartly...

Key Fund Holdings.(B)
March 2, 2001... Key Fund Holdings / HCC Insurance Holdings was a top new buy at Fidelity SelectInsurance Fund as of the latest reporting period. HCC hit a high of 26.94 on Dec. 29, then fell to 20.60 on Jan. 16. It has worked its way back to 25.47, 6%off its...

SEPs Make Investing For Retirement Easy You can still get a 2000 write-off with a simplified employee pension.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
March 2, 2001... Byline: Donald Jay Korn Investor's Business Daily Although 2001 is well under way, it's not too late for 2000 tax planning. You can contribute to a simplified employee pension, or SEP, plan and take a deduction for last year if your...

The Real Most Active - NASDAQ.(B)(The Real Most Active - NASDAQ)
March 2, 2001... The Real Most Active The Nasdaq got a needed shove into positive territory Thursday after good news about NYSE-traded IBM led techs upwards. The Nasdaq composite dropped as low as 4% intraday before gaining 31.54 points,or 1.5%, to...

Stocks In The News - NASDAQ.(B)
March 2, 2001... Since gaining 263% in six months, Panera Bread has formed a 16-week base. It stands 7% off its Nov. 14 high. On Jan. 8, the stock stretched all the way down to its 200-day moving average, finding support at the line. It then traveled...

Weather Worries Boost Soybeans; Palladium Sags As Supplies Grow.(B)(FUTURES)
March 2, 2001... By Reuters Soybean prices led grain markets higher on Thursday with some concern about drier weather for the big maturing crop in Brazil sparking some speculative demand. In other featured commodity trade, palladium prices dropped to...

Earnings Don't Add Up As Market Indicator.(A)
March 2, 2001... By David Saito-Chung Investor's Business Daily The future of a stock weighs a lot on its earnings. Companies that grow their bottom line year after year reap rewards in the market. Yet when it comes to how the market will do,...

With The Telecom Industry On Hold, Nextel Sends Out A Different Signal.(A)
March 2, 2001... By Robin Grugal Investor's Business Daily Coming off of a horrible year for the wireless sector and feeling a bit bruised, Nextel Communications Inc. is more anxious than ever to set itself apart from the pack. Fears of slower...

Poet Robert Frost Determination And Passion Made Him An American Literary Icon.(A)
March 2, 2001... Byline: PERSISTENT POET: Frost worked in obscurity for many years before finally getting a book of his poems published. By Michael Mink Investor's Business Daily Robert Frost refused to compromise his dreams, no matter how bleak...

Apollo Group's John G. Sperling Forward-Thinking Attitude Keeps His Schools Growing.(A)
March 2, 2001... By Christopher L. Tyner Investor's Business Daily Growing up dirt poor and dyslexic in a small shack in southern Missouri's Ozarks, John G. Sperling's chances of becoming an American education revolutionary seemed slim at best. ...

TECHNOLOGY IN CRISIS New Radio System Lets Seattle Respond Fast To Quake.(A)
March 2, 2001... By Peter Benesh Investor's Business Daily Seattle's earthquake could have been much worse, but one factor could not have gone better. The region's emergency communications were up to the task. Why? Because King County, which...

SEMICONDUCTORS Glut Of Chips Hurts Broadcom, Others, But End Is In Sight.(A)
March 2, 2001... By James DeTar Investor's Business Daily The bad news continues to roll in for the communication chip market. The good news is that the end is apparently in sight. Investors slammed Broadcom Corp.'s stock Thursday after two more...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS Qwest Ready To Play Web Host No. 4 long-distance firm says its strengths are well-suited to Web site hosting.(A)
March 2, 2001... By Reinhardt Krause Investor's Business Daily Look out Exodus Communications Inc. You too, Akamai Technologies Inc. The Web-hosting market is undergoing big changes, says Qwest Communications International Inc. Conditions now...

THE DOT-BOMBS Study: Net Start-Ups Ignored Economics 101.(A)
March 2, 2001... By Antonio A. Prado Investor's Business Daily Many dot-coms have failed because their managers didn't have a good grasp oftheir markets, a new study says. The heads of many e-commerce firms didn't understand the basis for...

SATELLITE TELEVISION Murdoch Offer Produces Some Static At Conflicted DirecTV.(A)
March 2, 2001... By Reinhardt Krause Investor's Business Daily For the next adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, look no further than HughesElectronics Corp. and its satellite TV broadcasting unit, DirecTV. Hughes is controlled by General Motors...

Web Resources Help Parents Who Juggle Work and Family.(A)
March 2, 2001... By Julie Mitchell Investor's Business Daily More than ever before, mothers are bringing up kids without dropping out of the workplace. A 1999 Labor Bureau survey found that 64% of married couples with children under 18 were both...

Labtec Hears The Big Boom From Digital Audio Explosion.(A)
March 2, 2001... By Doug Tsuruoka Investor's Business Daily Consumers are getting used to playing digital music and movies on their PCs.But Jeff Holove, vice president of marketing for Labtec Inc., a $100 million Vancouver, Wash.-based maker of audio...