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...Also on Tuesday, more goat entrails from the chip sector, with the trade group Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (yes, that spells SEMI) announces its July book-to-bill ratio. Watch Intel (whose expected 54-percent price cut on is high-end chips is due on Sunday) and AMD for meaning; analyst sentiment on the sector remains mixed...
...telecast also featured the first-ever Webby Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to Ray Tomlinson and Douglas Engelbart, two of the pioneers in the development of the modern computer experience. Tomlinson is credited with inventing e-mail, Engelbart with the mouse. Andy Grove, the CEO of Intel, presented the duo their awards...
...Monday morning by reporting earnings of 74 cents a share, topping not only expectations but last year's results. Microsoft, reporting for real this week, will be expected to do again what it did last week - make everybody feel good about dominant tech companies - except this time IBM and Intel, and maybe even Apple, will be expected to help...
...lesson of all from the GE case is this one: soon, something like it will happen again. The Commission in Brussels is currently engaged in three investigations of Microsoft, one of them driven by an American competitor, Sun Microsystems. Monti's staff is looking at the behavior of chipmaker Intel, at the behest of one competitor from the U.S. and one from Taiwan. U.S. regulators will review Switzerland-based Nestle's purchase of Ralston Purina, which would consolidate more than 50% of the $3 billion U.S. cat-food market. For now, the only antitrust authorities that really matter...
...maybe, with the outbreak of a cable war to keep them occupied, they'll remember saying that. But knowing the confessions are coming doesn't make them any easier to watch. After worse-than-expected outlooks Friday from data-storage market leader EMC and Intel-shadow chipmaker AMD, Wall Street investors are back to wringing their hands, and it's not as if they can all just go hit the golf course, at least not after a long July 4 holiday week...