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...homebuilding, heavy personal and corporate debts. Even as U.S. businesses are clawing their way to profitability, they're in no mood to start hiring again, so consumption still has plenty of room to fall. Meanwhile, warns Merrill Lynch global investment strategist David Bowers, the corporate recovery (particularly in the tech sector) remains vulnerable to events in fragile Japan, as the tumbling yen gives Japanese exporters a pricing edge over their American rivals...
Alex F. Rubalcava '02, a government concentrator in Eliot House, has worked for technology startups from Oxford to Santa Monica. Despite losing most of his (meager) net worth in last year's tech stock crash, he's still losing sleep trying to find The Next Big Thing. His column, which will appear on alternate Mondays, will focus on technology, investing and entrepreneurship...
According to the laws of Mother Nature, electricity follows the path of least resistance. Mother apparently hasn't been hanging around California recently, where last week rolling blackouts spread darkness at noon across some of the richest cropland, most complex high-tech factories and busiest streets in America...
...Many companies can't afford to be interrupted. It's a matter of life and death," says Dr. Ake Almgren, CEO of Capstone Turbine Corp., which has sold more than 1,000 units in two years to outfits ranging from high-tech start-ups and hospitals to a Blockbuster Video store and a BP Amoco gas station. According to estimates, 10% to 20% of new power will be distributed by 2010, so it's no wonder that heavyweights like Honeywell and Ingersoll-Rand are moving into the burgeoning business. Still, Maureen Helmer, chairman of the New York State public service...
...boys are back in force. And in a buyer's market: Thanks to the burst tech bubble, the cost of a 30-second spot is up only $100,000 this year, compared to last year's half-million jump, and some reports have it that CBS was still looking for takers as late as Friday. (For movie companies, the price was still a little rich. Only MGM, with "Hannibal," Universal, with "The Mummy Returns," and Columbia, with "A Knight's Tale," have bought game-time spots (one each) and Paramount is running its "Tomb Raider" ads during the cheaper...