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Although cell phones, laptops and PDAs have made it immensely easier to do business, many users hate having to tote around all three devices. HANDSPRING, maker of the popular Visor handhelds, thinks these burdened business people are the perfect customers for its Treo communicator, which debuted last month. The palm-size phone and organizer also has wireless Web service and a little keyboard or writing area for e-mailing and text messaging. Handspring prices the Treo at $399 with a service plan...
...easy being Daddy's little girl. Analysts balked a year ago when Stronach, 35, took the helm of her father's company, MAGNA. But since then, Canada's biggest auto-parts maker has posted record sales of $11 billion, up 5%--during the recession. Stronach is steering Magna further into auto assembly, last month buying a Chrysler plant in Austria next to where it already builds Saabs and Mercedes...
Already, chip-equipment and chipmaker stocks have taken wing. Shares of chip giant INTEL are up 71% since the Sept. 21 market bottom, while shares of APPLIED MATERIALS, the world's biggest maker of equipment used to manufacture chips, are up 76%--twice as much as the NASDAQ composite. Behind the surge has been a string of reports that chip inventories have been pared, and new orders are flooding in. From November through January, orders grew at an annualized rate double that of the same period a year earlier...
...awful lot,” said Harvard Coach Mark Mazzoleni of his goaltender. “We’ve found a major league collegiate goaltender [in Grumet-Morris]. If you’re going to be successful in major college hockey, that’s a big difference-maker...
...have found a major-league collegiate hockey goaltender," Harvard Coach Mark Mazzoleni said. “If you’re going to be successful in major college hockey, that’s a big difference-maker...