Industry View; The inspiration, crazy excitement -- and job volatility -- of an Internet start-up venture.
Date: 17 January 2000
By Lisa Napoli
Lisa Napoli
Lisa Napoli (Industry View) article, noting AOL-Time Warner merger, traces promising start and eventual demise of Delphi Internet, where she worked as director of content development in 1995--a time when surfing the Web was coming into its own; says what looked to be promising future, when Delphi was acquired by Rupert Murdoch's New Corp that year, became undone when MCI agreed to invest $1 billion in News Corp that spring; says MCI soured on Delphi relationship and struck an Internet backbone deal with Microsoft, which led to demise of Delphi; photo of Murdoch and MCI chairman Bert C Roberts Jr in 1995 (M)
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Media Talk; Isuzu Suit Raises First Amendment Concerns
Date: 17 January 2000
By Christian Berthelsen
Christian Berthelsen
Several newspapers and magazines are raising concerns about Isuzu Motors' suit brought against Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, citing First Amendment implications; Isuzu charges Consumers Union rigged test reports to ensure that two Trooper models and twin model manufactured for Acura would tip on two wheels (S)
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ISRAEL AND SYRIA POSTPONING TALKS, THE U.S. REPORTS
Date: 18 January 2000
By Jane Perlez
Jane Perlez
Israel-Syrian peace talks suffer setback, set off by Syrian demand that return of Golan Heights, its chief point of contention, be settled immediately; Clinton administration announces postponement of further high-level talks; both sides will send experts to Washington to provide comments on draft peace treaty written by US; resumption of talks in Shepherdstown, Pa, unraveled after Syrian news media announced Israel must make withdrawal from Golan Heights first order of business--demand made in response to leaking in Israeli press of American draft, which delineated where both sides found areas of accord and where they remained apart; leak reportedly unsettled Syrians, who had never before disclosed to public what they were willing to give up; was interpreted in Arab world as Syria making big concessions without winning much in return; Syria is demanding re-establishment of border with Israel that existed before outbreak of 1967 war; photo (M)
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HEWLETT-PACKARD TO CLOSE A COLORADO PLANT
Date: 18 January 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hewlett-Packard Co will shut plant in Greeley, Colo, in next 18 to 24 months and move work and 640 employees to plant in Fort Collins, Colo; 165 Greeley-based employees will join Flextronics International Ltd; Flextronics is buying DII Group Inc, which ageed in November to buy Hewlett-Packard's tape-storage manufacturing business (S)
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SCANSOFT TO ACQUIRE CAERE, A DIGITAL IMAGING RIVAL
Date: 18 January 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
ScanSoft Inc acquires Caere Corp for $143.4 million in cash and stock (S)
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GRETAG COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF U.S. PRINTER MAKER
Date: 18 January 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Gretag Imaging Holding AG acquires rest of Sienna Imaging Inc it does not own for about $20.5 million to $29 million in cash, depending on Sienna's results in current fiscal year (S)
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LUCENT SELLING $100 MILLION IN LASER PARTS TO TYCO
Date: 18 January 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lucent Technologies Inc will sell at least $100 million in laser components to Tyco International Ltd's Submarine Systems unit to increase capacity on undersea communications network; Lucent's new laser modules, which are installed along fiber optic cable route, deliver almost double power of its previous products, allowing communications systems to carry more traffic; sales of new modules are expected to total at least $100 million in next 18 months (S)
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Acquisition by I.B.M.
Date: 17 January 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
International Business Machines Corp to buy Accessible Software Inc for more than $75 million (S)
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Insurance for Net Companies Is Offered
Date: 18 January 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
American International Group Inc introduces insurance coverage for companies doing business online; company says its netAdvantage program offers insurance to businesses that mainly use World Wide Web for advertising, including banners and home pages (S)
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Brazil Awards Voting-Machine Contract
Date: 18 January 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Diebold Inc says its Brazilian unit, Procomp Amazonia Industria Eletronica SA, has received contract worth $105.5 million to supply voting machines, company's largest single contract ever (S)
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