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Kevin S. Davis '98 has written Tech Talk since February 1996. This is his final column. He will join American Management Systems in Charlotte, N.C. this fall as a business analyst in their finance industry group. He can be reached at kevin_davis@post.harvard.edu...
...Wall Street. "It looks to me like the industry is just starting to live up to its potential," says analyst Scott Barry, who follows the fleet for Raymond James & Associates. "We think it's only in its infancy." The stock of industry leader Carnival has climbed from $36 a share a year ago to $69.94 last week...
...tireless bull market. Once the preserve of a few computer-literate plungers, online trading could account for nearly 30% of the projected 227 million securities transactions at retail houses this year, according to Piper Jaffray, a Minneapolis, Minn., investment firm. "It's been on fire," Bill Burnham, a senior analyst at Piper Jaffray, says of online trading. "Hands down, it's the most successful area of consumer-based electronic commerce...
...year after The Lost World: Jurassic Park, is another really big lizard movie, Godzilla. This updating of the old Japanese monster series, by the Independence Day team, has been teased so cannily ("Size Does Matter") that now industry folk have only one debate: Which film will come in second? Analyst Alan Kassan of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell picks Saving Private Ryan. "A great script, Steven Spielberg directing, Tom Hanks starring--I'd take points in that...
...star's dimensions on 8,000 outdoor displays. Others try niche marketing. In ads on Ally McBeal, Armageddon peddles itself as a love story, with kissy spots featuring Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler. The idea is to attract Hollywood's hot new demographic, young females--the segment PaineWebber analyst Christopher Dixon calls "the new bobby-soxers...