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...fair to Boies et al, the DOJ still has plenty of juicy material to feed on. Its latest witness, economist Frederick Warren-Boulton, brought out one tasty tidbit Tuesday: Microsoft, he said, had an "astonishing" 38.5 percent profit margin -- more than any other high-tech firm in the Fortune 500. How, then, can this company claim that it doesn't derive benefits from its monopoly position? After all, there's one thing the AOL deal hasn't changed: 89 percent of those Netscape browsers are going to be viewed on a Microsoft-operated machine. Windows, too, is a beast that...
...that smacks of opportunity. If we step away from the transient worry about whether the Fed will cut rates further when it meets this week, we can see that bank stocks are selling for substantially less than almost any other sector of the market. Tech, drugs and even oil shares trade at a much higher valuation, relative to expected earnings. Why? Because many bank loans have gone bad in Asia, Russia and Latin America, not to mention the Long Term Capital hedge fund...
...home-tech consumers, this holiday season provides a rare bounty. Televisions, digital videodisc players and home computers are better, cheaper and less risky purchases than ever before. Camcorders are tinier; cordless phones more powerful. Half-size ovens cook in half the time...
Getting those two PCs talking to each other is already possible with RF (infrared) attachments. But analysts are betting that a home network based on connections through your phone lines will be the standard with staying power. HomePNA, a consortium of high-tech companies including Intel and Lucent, hopes to have the technology, called 1 Mbit/s, in stores early next year...
Driven by the glamorous high-tech economy and its entrepreneurs, the rock stars of the '90s, business culture has become about as quicksilver as molten silicon. In growing numbers, the corporate employees of yesteryear are going out on their own and becoming small-business owners. In fact, 7 million Americans are running small businesses now, up from 4.8 million just four years...