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...they also have to pay retailers to stock their wares. That might cost $50,000 this Christmas season for a promotion at a regional chain. The casualties last week included the edu-tainment company Knowledge Adventure, being sold to CUC International (1995 sales: $1.9 billion), and Edmark, sold to IBM for $80 million. Last summer Humongous Entertainment, which makes the popular Freddi Fish series, merged with powerhouse GT Interactive. "I think it would have been very difficult to retain our market share through the Christmas season without GTI's help," says president Shelley...
...winner IBM ThinkPad 760ED...
...IBM is infamous for blowing its hard-won head start in the desktop-personal-computer business in the early 1980s. Now it's staging a credible come-from-behind charge in the laptop marketplace with a series of thin, lightweight machines that perform well and look great. The strongest of the wonderful bunch is the 133-MHz Pentium-powered 760ED. With a luminous 12.1-in. screen, 16 MB of memory standard in each computer and a large 2.1-GB hard drive and built-in fax modem, the 6.7-lb. computer is powerful enough to handle the strictest demands of Road...
...said the Kennedy School has numerous Republican faculty members, including Executive Dean Sheila Burke, the former chief of staff for Bob Dole, and IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter, a domestic policy adviser under President George Bush...
Wittig, owner of Wallpaper World and host of a local cable-access show, The Washington Report, wants to apply her commercial acumen to legislation and attack the three threats to small business: taxation, litigation and regulation. In a district hit hard by IBM downsizing and where constituents worry about high taxes forcing companies south to Pennsylvania, Wittig's message has resonance...