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Nasdaq suffers biggest loss in three weeks
News The Nasdaq Composite Index suffered its biggest loss in more than three weeks after a Japanese stock rout triggered selling from Hong Kong to London.
Sega tries to rouse Dreamcast sales from slumber
News Sega Enterprises is grasping for a lifeline to rescue the foundering Dreamcast game box.
CyberWorks ad promises miracles; investors lose faith
News Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd's first television ad since its US$28 billion purchase of Cable & Wireless HKT Ltd is as baffling as some people find its plans.
LinuxOne's IPO filing irks the faithful
News Some passages of LinuxOne's filing to go public read like a mirror image of Red Hat's filing, just two months ago.
Consumer e-commerce enters the mainstream
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Tough times for Taiwan's Intel wannabe
News Via Technologies' plans to join the CPU big leagues have fallen flat, but it has managed to strike a deal with cellular player China Unicom.
Tags: Processors, Cellular phones, Smart phones
AOL to stick with Google
News Search king to buy stake in America Online to keep ad deal--as Microsoft gets left out in the cold, a source says.
Tags: Web sites, Web services, Best strategies
Microsoft and Yahoo re-enter talks
News Microsoft says it has issued another proposal to Yahoo, this one calling for an acquisition of some but not all of Yahoo's assets.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., search engine company, software, Carl Icahn, Yahoo Search, shareholder
A break in Yahoo's China clouds?
News An IPO for part of its Alibaba.com venture could offset its otherwise poor mainland showing and woes due to copyright and human rights lawsuits.
Tags: Web sites, Search, Financial, Internet advertising
E-mails give peek at Microsoft strategies
News The company says in a Minnesota court that it did not abuse its OS dominance to hike prices. But a 1997 e-mail from a Microsoft exec to Warren Buffett compared Windows to a "toll bridge" on every PC sold.
Tags: Business applications, Open source
How the Gates years symbolized high tech
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Hutchison, Cheung Kong may lead gains in Golden Dragon Year
News The Chinese Year of the Golden Dragon, which starts on Saturday, is said by astrologers to be a year for partnerships, new ideas and handsome returns, especially for those born in Dragon years.
CompUSA gets lifeline from Mexican investors
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Financial planning start-ups capture investors' interest
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Globalstar looks to profit after Iridium flameout
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