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...America Online? You use it constantly and love it, and it's down 12 points in the last 10 minutes. It just reported a great quarter. What's your excuse there?" Knowing she would persist, I grabbed 10,000 shares at 99. Then, emboldened, I bought some Compaq and IBM and Dell, all of which were similarly headed south...
James J. Cramer writes for thestreet.com an investment website. He holds investments in AOL, Compaq, Dell, IBM and Maytag. Nothing in this column should be construed as advice on whether to buy or sell stocks...
...some cases, distance learning and customized courses are being combined. N.Y.U. and IBM in November 1996 announced a partnership to provide information-systems courses over a global computer network to both IBM and non-IBM professionals worldwide, says Information Technologies' Vigilante. Twelve classes have already been offered, and 18 more will be available by the year 2000. By the end of this year, more than 640 professionals will probably have taken online courses in this program. N.Y.U. is discussing similar online course formats with other companies...
...April fair in Austin in radio ads for weeks in advance, then set up a big tent to supply job information for those who wandered in while local disk jockeys played music to amuse those waiting in line. The fair was "wildly successful," and AMD hired 30 people. IBM set up recruiting tables in March in Panama City, Fla., where thousands of college students were partying on spring break. David Hofrichter, a managing director of Hay Group, a global management-consulting firm, notes that companies no longer tell recruiters dispatched to job fairs, "If you see some people...
...wrote a poem about Chaplin, said his pantomime "represents the futile gesture of the poet today." Later, in the 1950s, Chaplin was one of the icons of the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac went on the road because he too wanted to be a hobo. From 1981 to 1987, IBM used the Tramp as the logo to advertise its venture into personal computers...