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...company's highest-earning market was Asia, where other tech blue-chippers have had troubles recently. Consumer business in the Americas has nearly doubled since last year. Across the board, from high-end orders to over-the-Internet sales, business is booming. And shareholders, already in ecstasy after watching the stock jump 30 points since January, can look forward to another treat: Dell also announced a stock split for March...
...home computing to the masses by popularizing the sub-$1,000 PC. Digital, a legendary innovator in the 1970s and '80s and a legendary disaster in the '90s (it flat missed the PC revolution) had few options. Now Compaq can couple its manufacturing and marketing savvy with Digital's high-end technology and global sales and service reach. Compaq will rely less on hardware, an advantage in an industry whose prices continue to erode. "This gets Compaq out of being a box supplier and puts it in the position of delivering full-service solutions to huge corporations," says Stuart Woodring...
This complex chemistry of means, needs and expectations makes for some contradictory behavior. This Christmas, high-end stores and discount outlets are having the best season: stores in the middle are struggling. It seems that most consumers are engaged in a constant, personalized cost-benefit analysis. If they feel they got a good enough bargain at the Price Club on toilet paper or dog food, they allow themselves the Starbucks confection that costs four times as much as a regular cup of coffee...
This makes Andy Klein angry--or at least aware of a market niche. His company, Wit Capital, which launched last week, is an online broker that lets small investors not only trade stocks and mutual funds at cut-rate prices but also buy into the high-end IPO and venture-capital deals that were once the sole province of Wall Street's biggest kahunas. Until now, the Little Guy could only watch and drool as well-connected initial subscribers bought millions of IPO shares at insider offering prices, then "flipped" them to the clamoring public for instant fortunes: Netscape...
...Pebble Gifford, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund (HSDF), said Harvard Square "desperately needs rental housing," not high-end condominiums...