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...Hewlett-Packard is getting out of the business it began with: making measuring devices. "Sentimentally, it was a very hard decision," says CEO Lew Platt--not least because "I spent more than half my career in measurements." But measuring devices had come to account for only 17% of HP's volume, and a collapse in Asian markets turned them into a drag on overall profits. Those now come mainly from computers and related equipment, but HP got into that field as a kind of sideline and, with its attention divided, has long been regarded as trailing more innovative rivals...
Neither is true now, though. In the past few weeks, deft traders have been able to make 15 points on IBM in one day or make 6 on 3M or Alcoa, Eastman Kodak or Hewlett-Packard. These are marquee Dow names, not heavily manipulated penny stocks or hyped Net offerings. You could "scalp" a huge gain simply by buying these stocks at the opening and selling them at the bell...
Despite being a short drive (for visitors and recruiters alike) away from major offices of companies such as Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, Stanford students live on a traditional college campus. The university's most important building are inside the Campus Drive loop, the majority of classes are taught behind the arches of the main quadrangle and the newly constructed science and engineering quad, and most undergraduates live in the vast array of dorms and houses on campus...
...Three letters: IBM.) There was a time in the mid-'90s when PC makers could count on ever more complicated applications requiring ever faster processors, causing consumers and businesses to upgrade PCs almost as often as Japan changed Prime Ministers. Sellers like Dell, Compaq, IBM, Gateway and Hewlett Packard got accustomed to 100% revenue-growth rates, while investors reaped heady returns: $1,000 invested in Dell in 1989 has grown to $640,000 today...
...generation of information appliances touted as the next wave of microprocessor-loaded consumer goodies. What happens when you've got a Windows CE device running at 200 MHz in the palm of your hand and a cell phone with Internet access in your pocket? Not to mention Packard Bell NEC's planned microwave oven with a video-display terminal on the door so you can surf the Web while waiting for your burrito to thaw. E-mail? Web access? Game playing? Will anyone need a PC to perform what today seem like PC functions? Well, there will always be geeks...