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...that's not the only Bluetooth angle here, either. You can also use a Bluetooth headset with the cordless phone, creating a kind of crazy Bluetooth phone to base station to cordless phone to Bluetooth headset wireless daisy chain...
Bushnell's baby, Atari, which he left in 1979, lost $539 million in 1983 when the video-game industry crashed. The following year his second big start-up, Pizza Time Theater, a chain of restaurants featuring singing robots with names like Chuck E. Cheese, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Despite these debacles, Bushnell sold off the ventures early enough to pocket about $70 million...
...Reason: Texas Air Chairman Frank Lorenzo has earned a reputation as a fierce foe of unions. Now it appears that Eastern's workers may be maneuvering to foil the deal. Union representatives have been meeting with Jay Pritzker, a Chicago financier who controls Braniff Airlines and the Hyatt hotel chain. Pritzker is said to be considering a bid for Eastern in return for wage concessions from the workers. Texas Air controls 51% of Eastern stock, but Pritzker could conceivably make Lorenzo a lucrative offer that he could not refuse...
...rapid-moving chain of events kept brokers busy. BankAmerica stock, which began the week at 11 3/8, hopped to a 14 7/8 close. USX shares, which have been among the most active New York Stock Exchange issues for weeks, climbed from 26 1/8 to 28 1/8, eventually closing at 27?...
...them, American Television and Communications, is 80% owned by Time Inc.) to assemble an audience of 15 million households for its Cable Value Network. Last month a powerful trio of companies formed a joint venture to put a program called ValueTelevision directly on broadcast airwaves. The participants: a chain of independent stations (Fox Television), a Hollywood production company (Lorimar-Telepictures) and a direct-mail giant (Horn & Hardart, owner of Hanover House). To meet the new challenges, HSN is in the process of branching out from cable to broadcasting by acquiring 14 UHF television stations...