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...consumer electronics devices--Net-linked TVs, phones or game machines projected to be a $1 billion market by the turn of the century. Microsoft placed a bet on the "info appliance" business in April when it bought WebTV for $425 million. Last week Sun Microsystems joined the party. The giant server firm acquired Diba, an appliance start-up in search of deep pockets...
...good. Kaplan and Sanborn, now seeking the backing of a giant like Microsoft or America Online to develop Dysson and offer it to the public, may be evolving a new interactive art form. But they've also retold the Internet's oldest cautionary tale: Online exchanges may be virtual, but the emotions they provoke are quite real...
...world. These guys have been around the track. Why do they choose to invest directly? Because they are not helpless. They are a bunch of hard-nosed businessmen." Rodney Brady, who runs Deseret Management Corp., has a Harvard business doctorate, served as executive vice president of pharmaceutical giant Bergen Brunswig and from 1970 to '72 was Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Similar figures fill the church's upper management: Tony Burns, a "stake president" (the rough equivalent of an archbishop), is chairman of Miami-based Ryder Systems, the truck-rental empire...
...upset delivery service to thousands of businesses nationwide and will cost the company an estimated $50 million a day. Federal Express and the U.S. Postal Service have made contingency plans to take up the slack, but say they may have difficulty handling the additional load. Adding to the delivery giant's difficulties is a promise by 2,000 UPS pilots to join the strikers. And with President Clinton virtually ruling out federal intervention, it could be a long time before the dispute is settled. At issue for the Teamsters is limits on subcontracting and more full-time jobs. The company...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: UPS trucks continued to roll after negotiations between the delivery giant and the Teamsters union continued past a strike deadline. Teamsters President Ron Carey said today that union workers would remain on the job as long as the two sides continue to talk. A federal mediator restarted the negotiations last night, averting a widespread walkout. The dispute centers on the Teamsters' insistence on a multi-employer pension pool, rather than a less-secure plan covering only UPS employees. The Teamsters are also pressing management to increase pay, limit subcontracting and create more full-time jobs. If the talks...