Word: tech
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Though Microsoft's lawyers haven't had a chance to make that statement yet, company spokesmen did ballyhoo the AOL-Time Warner deal as proof that the high-tech industries in which Microsoft competes--unfairly, according to the Justice Department--are evolving so quickly and convulsively that to assert Microsoft exerts monopolistic power is "almost comical...
...investors, this is a good time to contemplate such a turn. Tech stocks have repaired their millennial meltdown, giving you another chance to sell high, and you've seen that a "diversified" portfolio of Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Lucent and Yahoo doesn't offer much panic protection. Tech remains a great place to be long term--but not exclusively...
...that slaps a backdrop of a "newsroom" behind a reporter in an empty studio, or a TV newsmagazine that asks an interviewee to sit down and type for 30 seconds for the camera in order to have video of the subject "working." And there are far more egregious, low-tech and common promos on news programs. When a morning show or news broadcast shills its corporate parent's sitcoms or movies, it's crowding out news. CBS's phantom ad crowded out, well, more advertising...
...released by the Labor Department this week shows that unionism is on the rise for the first time in over two decades. The reason is simple enough - just as the nation is experiencing its first labor shortages in decades, workers are in a position to make greater demands. Even tech firms, the Wild West of modern American capitalism, have gone union in recent years, with membership up in 1999 at IBM, Amazon.com and Microsoft...
...case, the fact is that the public sector has had a hard time recruiting young talent in recent years due to the sustained boom in private industry. The last thing it needs right now is to alienate half of the pool of potential employees, because there are plenty of tech firms out there that don't seem to care about the gender of who's making them money...