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...direction of a stock without facing fundamental problems. "When you have a company under pretty severe attack from the outside and you exacerbate that with a disorienting reorganization, I don't get very optimistic," says Anna-Maria Kovacs, an analyst with Janney Montgomery Scott. She downgraded the stock even before the press conference...
...late 1800s, when telephony was new and hundreds of competitors were stringing wires. AT&T won that battle, becoming a well-fed monopoly. But now what AT&T does is also done by the Baby Bells, a slew of long-distance carriers, wireless long-distance providers and even the Internet...
Corner offices don't stay vacant for long; the board organizes a search committee even before the fired CEO departs with a large payout. Lucent is looking for a boss with a technical background and experience in rationalizing businesses. The pay is great, the perks are plentiful, and you get your very own jet. Just don't have the seat pillows monogrammed...
...just one reason why IM chimes are suddenly ringing throughout the workplace. Far more messages probably come from employees who have downloaded such programs as America Online's Instant Messenger (AIM) or the rival Yahoo Messenger, both of which are available free on the Internet. Workers aren't even waiting for information-technology departments to install a corporate system. "This is all spreading by word of mouth," says Neil MacDonald, a vice president of the Gartner Group research firm. "Companies weren't planning on instant messaging, but it's become a critical part of business today." Gartner predicts that...
April Rivera, a four-year-old from Miami, is singing the theme song to Barney with her mother. "I love you. You love me," she chirps. "We're a happy family." Even a purple dinosaur, however, can tell this isn't quite true. April's mom Regla Sanchez, 26, is inmate No. 162850 at the Hernando Correctional Institution, 320 miles away in Brooksville, Fla., and April is looking at an image of her mother on a computer screen. This virtual family visit is part of a new pilot program, Reading Family Ties, run by the Florida Department of Corrections...