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Electronic Commerce News. Potomac: Aug 2, 2004.Vol.9, Iss. 16; pg. 1
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Company: Microsoft Corp. [MSFT] Closing Price (7/28/04): 28.58 The Latest Dish: -- 52
Week High/Low: 24.01/30.00 Company: America Online Inc. [TWX] Closing Price
(7/28/04): 16.65 The Latest Dish: Aided by the first ad revenue gains since the third
quarter of 2001, especially in ads related to online searches, AOL operating income
(excluding depreciation and amortization) rose 13 percent to $487 million. 52 Week
High/Low: 14.66/19.30 Company: Yahoo Inc. [YHOO] Closing Price (7/28/04): 29.7 The
Latest Dish: Yahoo! Sports will power the official Web site of golfer Tiger Woods. In
return, TigerWoods.com will share much of its editorial content - including exclusive
elements produced personally by Woods -- and the two sites will exchange a variety of
marketing and promotional assets. Yahoo! also takes over responsibility for selling
advertising on TigerWoods.com, with any resulting revenue shared between the two
entities. 52 Week High/Low: 14.05/36.51 Company: EarthLink [ELNK] Closing Price
(7/28/04): 9.63 The Latest Dish: EarthLink now officially is in the black, reporting net
income of $49.7 million on $348.6 million in revenue during 2Q04. A year ago, the ISP
reported net losses of $15.3 million on $352.3 million in revenue. 52 Week High/Low:
6.59/11.49 Company: IBM [IBM] Closing Price (7/28/04): 85.85 The Latest Dish: Only 90
days after acquiring Trigo Technologies, IBM introduced WebSphere Product Center
Version 5. The new middleware helps customers develop a central, accurate and
comprehensive repository of product information that is synchronized with internal
systems and then shared across supply chains. 52 Week High/Low: 78.73/100.43
Company: Cisco Systems Inc. [CSCO] Closing Price (7/28/04): 20.5 The Latest Dish: -52 Week High/Low: 17.42/29.39 Company: Silicon Graphics [SGI] Closing Price
(7/28/04): 1.43 The Latest Dish: -- 52 Week High/Low: 0.85/4.10 Company: PeopleSoft
Inc. [PSFT] Closing Price (7/28/04): 17.7 The Latest Dish: PeopleSoft was named to
Start Magazine's "Hottest Company" listing for the third consecutive year.
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Company: Microsoft Corp. [MSFT] Closing Price (7/28/04): 28.58 The Latest Dish: -- 52
Week High/Low: 24.01/30.00 Company: America Online Inc. [TWX] Closing Price
(7/28/04): 16.65 The Latest Dish: Aided by the first ad revenue gains since the third
quarter of 2001, especially in ads related to online searches, AOL operating income
(excluding depreciation and amortization) rose 13 percent to $487 million. 52 Week
High/Low: 14.66/19.30 Company: Yahoo Inc. [YHOO] Closing Price (7/28/04): 29.7 The
Latest Dish: Yahoo! Sports will power the official Web site of golfer Tiger Woods. In
return, TigerWoods.com will share much of its editorial content - including exclusive
elements produced personally by Woods -- and the two sites will exchange a variety of
marketing and promotional assets. Yahoo! also takes over responsibility for selling
advertising on TigerWoods.com, with any resulting revenue shared between the two
entities. 52 Week High/Low: 14.05/36.51 Company: EarthLink [ELNK] Closing Price
(7/28/04): 9.63 The Latest Dish: EarthLink now officially is in the black, reporting net
income of $49.7 million on $348.6 million in revenue during 2Q04. A year ago, the ISP
reported net losses of $15.3 million on $352.3 million in revenue. 52 Week High/Low:
6.59/11.49 Company: IBM [IBM] Closing Price (7/28/04): 85.85 The Latest Dish: Only 90
days after acquiring Trigo Technologies, IBM introduced WebSphere Product Center
Version 5. The new middleware helps customers develop a central, accurate and
comprehensive repository of product information that is synchronized with internal
systems and then shared across supply chains. 52 Week High/Low: 78.73/100.43
Company: Cisco Systems Inc. [CSCO] Closing Price (7/28/04): 20.5 The Latest Dish: -52 Week High/Low: 17.42/29.39 Company: Silicon Graphics [SGI] Closing Price
(7/28/04): 1.43 The Latest Dish: -- 52 Week High/Low: 0.85/4.10 Company: PeopleSoft
Inc. [PSFT] Closing Price (7/28/04): 17.7 The Latest Dish: PeopleSoft was named to
Start Magazine's "Hottest Company" listing for the third consecutive year. The magazine
acknowledged PeopleSoft for its demand-driven manufacturing vision, its product
excellence and its commitment to helping manufacturers improve profitability through a
demand- driven approach. 52 Week High/Low: 15.39/24.04 Company: Sun Microsystems [SUNW] Closing Price (7/28/04): 3.65 The Latest Dish: -- 52 Week High/Low:
3.14/5.93 Company: Apple Computer [AAPL] Closing Price (7/28/04): 32.27 The Latest
Dish: -- 52 Week High/Low: 19.25/34.19 Company: Dell Inc. [DELL] Closing Price
(7/28/04): 35.35 The Latest Dish: Dell, which is looking at three states in which to open a
new distribution center, is being wooed by Ohio, which promises to give the company
nearly $3 million in tax breaks should it move to any one of a number of Ohio venues.
Oklahoma and North Carolina also are in the running. 52 Week High/Low: 30.70/37.18
Company: Blue Martini Software Inc. [BLUE] Closing Price (7/28/04): 2.61 The Latest
Dish: Blue Martini appointed Jeff Lynch as vice president/ North American sales. Lynch
brings more than 20 years of sales experience to his new employer. Most recently he
served as Vice President of global sales for GT Nexus. Previously, he served in sales
leadership positions at I2 Technologies, IBM Corporation, GE Retail Systems, and NCR
Corporation. 52 Week High/Low: 2.50/6.129 Company: Digital River Inc. [DRIV] Closing
Price (7/28/04): 27.21 The Latest Dish: Digital River will provide Corex Technologies
Inc., the maker of CardScan, with an international e-commerce solution. Digital River
built and recently launched 10 new e-commerce sites to support online marketing and
sales of the product in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, New
Zealand, Singapore, South Africa and South Korea. Site services range from processing
orders placed in local currencies and managing regional taxation requirements, to
providing electronic and physical software delivery, multi- lingual customer service, fraud
protection and e-marketing services. 52 Week High/Low: 18.93/34.83 Company:
Amazon.com Inc. [AMZN] Closing Price (7/28/04): 37.97 The Latest Dish: Amazon
Services Inc. and American Express inked a deal to give merchants who accept the
American Express card a special offer to sell their merchandise on the Amazon.com
Web site. Through this agreement, U.S. businesses that accept the card can join the
Amazon Services Pro Merchant program to sell on Amazon.com with no subscription
charges for the first three months. 52 Week High/Low: 34.00/61.15 Company: e-Smart
Technologies, Inc. [ESMT.PK] Closing Price (7/28/04): 0.7 The Latest Dish: Preparations
reportedly are under way to begin mass production of the company's Super Smart Card.
The first deliveries should start in October, and then the build-up and full rollout of
millions of pieces per month is slated for January 2005. e-Smart also says that's when
real revenues will begin. 52 Week High/Low: N/A-N/A Company: Electronic Data
Systems [EDS] Closing Price (7/28/04): 17.27 The Latest Dish: EDS and Blue Shield of
California (BSC) expanded their 35-year long-term relationship with two new agreements
valued at a total of $70 million. One agreement calls for EDS to provide new electronic
claims processing services, and the second extends application development services
including programming, testing, analysis and project management. 52 Week High/Low:
15.62/25.44 Company: Verizon Communications VZ] Closing Price (7/28/04): 38.7 The
Latest Dish: -- 52 Week High/Low: 31.10/39.54 Company: Segue Software Inc. [SEGU]
Closing Price (7/28/04): 3.57 The Latest Dish: Segue is opening a new office in
Bangalore, India, that will serve the Asia Pacific region. The area has brought in a lot of
new business for the company's software quality-optimization solutions. 52 Week
High/Low: 2.01/5.00 Company: 3 Com Corp. [COMS] Closing Price (7/28/04): 4.94 The
Latest Dish: Mark Slaven, executive vice president and CEO, will speak at the RBC
Capital Markets 2004 North American Technology Conference in Half Moon Bay, Calif.,
Aug. 3. A live audio webcast of the presentation can be heard at
http://www.wsw.com/webcast/dr23/coms/. 52 Week High/Low: 4.60/9.34 Company:
Keynote Systems [KEYN] Closing Price (7/28/04): 13.68 The Latest Dish: Keynote says
it "significantly broadened" its Application Perspective platform by doubling the number
of worldwide geographical locations from which customers can measure transaction
performance. It also introduced a version of Application Perspective that offers deep
integration with Hewlett- Packard's OpenView. 52 Week High/Low: 9.61/14.20