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...PlayStation2 is being launched into the most competitive gaming environment ever. Sony is locked in a high-stakes platform war with Microsoft, Sega and Nintendo to lay claim to electronic outposts in living rooms worldwide. Right now the fight is over who will cater to the virtual sniper-attack and dune-buggy needs of legions of young gamers. But before long, these companies are betting, game consoles like PlayStation2 will become broad-ranging digital home entertainment centers used by everyone for everything from music playing to video watching. Still, the corporate battle for digital dominance in the years ahead will...
...heard all the bad news about third-quarter earnings," says tech investor Kevin Landis, portfolio manager at Firsthand Funds. "The good news comes next." Landis expects investors to come back into tech stocks fairly soon, though he doubts they'll flock back into the old bellwethers Intel and Microsoft, which in the minds of some of the tech savvy are on the verge of becoming also-rans. A new list of tech bellwethers is developing, agrees Jeff Applegate, market strategist at Lehman Brothers. It includes networking and e-commerce facilitators like EMC, JDS Uniphase, BEA Systems, Corning and Siebel Systems...
...back up the contention, Mike Brill, president of BOSTI Associates, has numbers--from 13,000 workplace evaluations by employees and managers at 40 organizations from Lockheed and Ernst & Young to Sun Microsystems and Microsoft, all done over the past six years. In every case Brill asked, How does the physical environment contribute to workers' job satisfaction and performance, both individual and team? "The single most powerful factor," Brill found, "is the ability to concentrate on work without distraction. The second is frequent, informal interactions between workers. These themes need to be balanced." Consider, says Brill, that at least half...
WARREN BUFFETT The Berkshire Hathaway guru prefers companies like Wrigley's because the Internet won't "change how people chew gum." Currently down only $4 billion. WAS WORTH: $32 billion in 1999 NOW WORTH: $27.6 billion PAUL ALLEN Microsoft co-founder quits board of directors last month to focus on Web ventures, some of which Pop.com WebHouse) have been real duds. WAS WORTH: $22.4 billion in December in Microsoft stock NOW WORTH: $12.4 billion...
BILL GATES His stake in Microsoft may be down $48.5 billion this year, but Gates, though dogged by the DOJ, is racking up brownie points through his charitable foundation, richest in the world. WAS WORTH: $87.8 billion in December NOW WORTH: $39.3 billion...