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Game playing among home-computer users should remain strong. According to Future Computing Inc., a Texas-based market-research firm, 52% of all home software sold this year, totaling some 12 million packages, will be entertainment programs; about 16%, or 4 million packages, will be educational programs. Those figures are up from 4 million home-entertainment programs and 1.4 million educational programs sold in 1982. The statistics, however, can be misleading. Game programs, say experts, have short life spans. People play games constantly, tire of them quickly and demand new diversions. Business and educational programs, on the other hand...
Douglas Spindler and Veronica Jordan founded their own computer supply company and less than a year later Spin-Tronics, Inc. may be the fastest growing company in the San Francisco area...
...television and radio stations are being acquired by Rockefeller Center Inc., a private company that manages about two-thirds of the family's wealth. Its biggest single asset is Rockefeller Center, the eight-block, 17-building office complex in New York City that celebrated its 50th anniversary last year. While the center reportedly generates revenues of $500 million a year, its 1981 profit was only $20 million. The Rockefellers have tried several schemes to wring more cash out of the complex and last year had even arranged to sell an interest in the center, but the deal fell through...
...Hisaka head of Cambridge based Don M. Hisaka and Associates, Inc., the architectural firm in charge of the renovation project, said that Gund's problems stem partly from the building's experiment design...
David Whittey, executive director of Shelter, Inc., a non-profit group running one of Cambridge's three shelters, confirmed yesterday that the Dukakis administration has committed partial annual funding to a new shelter. But he added that other problems, such as finding a location, would have to be resolved before establishing the shelter...