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Tough Times in Tech...Best Products...A Tough Road for Bush?
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE DECEMBER 18, 2000, ISSUE OF BUSINESS WEEK* ********************************ADVERTISEMENT******************************* Are you having problems getting your E-Business Initiative up and running? Do you have Enterprise Applications like Siebel, Clarify or SAP that need to be integrated with your documents, presentations and databases and presented easily through a personalized browser interface? What you need is the Viador Enterprise Information Portal - The Better Way to Build Your E-Business - register today for your FREE Portal Framework White Paper and learn how you can get your E-Business Initiative going - fast! http://newsletters.businessweek.com/GoNow/a14109a27754a62891954a1 **************************************************************************** Cover Story: THE TECH SLUMP Slowing growth in tech spending, not shrinkage, is what's in store. But that will be painful enough -- for the industry and the economy as a whole. From Wednesday night until midday Monday, for subscribers only** http://www.businessweek.com/premium/00_51/b3712001.htm After midday Monday, for all readers: http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_51/b3712001.htm Election 2000: HOW BUSH WOULD LEAD As the election process crawls to its seemingly inevitable conclusion, it looks like George W. will face a slowing economy, a divided Congress, and an uneasy nation. But don't judge W., who has a history of being underestimated, just yet. From Wednesday night until midday Monday, for subscribers only** http://www.businessweek.com/premium/00_51/b3712052.htm After midday Monday, for all readers: http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_51/b3712052.htm Special Report: THE BEST PRODUCTS OF 2000 From an improved -- but still refreshingly low-tech -- $1 pencil to a BMW that goes for $130,000, we've picked out the best of this year's new stuff. Now you can't complain that you don't know what to get anyone for the holidays! From Wednesday night until midday Monday, for subscribers only** http://www.businessweek.com/premium/00_51/c3712139.htm After midday Monday, for all readers: http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_51/c3712139.htm *The complete Table of Contents for this week's issue can be found at... http://www.businessweek.com/contents.htm **Remember, only subscribers can see the entire issue. Selected stories are available to nonsubscribers on Monday. Isn't it time you became a subscriber? __________________________________________________________________ SEARCH PAST ISSUES OF BW. Free for subscribers only -- FIVE YEARS of Business Week magazine. For more information, go to http://www.businessweek.com/search.htm ______________________________________________________________________ SEARCH BUSINESSWEEK.COM -- Search our ENTIRE SITE for all free content, including Daily Briefing, BW e.biz, frontier, and Best B-Schools. You'll find our search function in the light-blue bar at the top of nearly every screen on the site ______________________________________________________________________ DAILY BRIEFING [http://www.businessweek.com/today.htm] For BW's Election 2000 coverage visit http://www.businessweek.com/election2000.htm 12/07 -- Labor Finally Puts a Target on Wal-Mart After years of unsuccessful tactics, the United Food & Commercial Workers is launching a nationwide organizing drive aimed at better pay and benefits http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2000/nf2000126_820.htm 12/06 -- Special Report: That Crazy Patchwork Called Electricity Deregulation The results so far are mixed -- at best. Doing better will mean more big, painful changes in energy markets and policies nationwide http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2000/nf2000126_886.htm 12/05-- Streaming Video -- on Your Cell Phone? Korea's Samsung is convinced that consumers will line up for its coming video-phone. Or will it be too much, too soon? http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2000/nf2000125_488.htm 12/04 -- Election 2000's Would Haves, Could Haves, Should Haves If only Gore or Bush had done so many things differently, either one might have put this election away http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2000/nf2000124_466.htm 12/01 -- A Bull and a Bear Butt Heads Are the steep drops in the market a harbinger of recession or a signal of the long-awaited soft landing? Two BW Online writers stake out their opposite positions http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2000/nf2000121_633.htm **********************************ADVERTISEMENT***************************** ActionTec delivers the first nationwide retail USB DSL modem using TI DSP technology. The Actiontec Home DSL Modem, based on TI?s leading digital signal processor (DSP) - based DSL technology, offers consumers an easy-to-use and complete DSL solution for those end-users seeking high-speed Internet access. http://newsletters.businessweek.com/GoNow/a14109a27754a62891954a0 ***************************************************************************** ______________________________________________________________________________ __ e.biz [http://ebiz.businessweek.com] CHECK OUT STORIES FROM Le Monde Interactif 12/07 -- Words for the Wise on Voice Recognition The technology really works, and the two market leaders sure have supporters. Too bad these stocks' volatility is as great as their promise http://www.businessweek.com/ebiz/0012/es1207.htm 12/06 -- Microsoft's Turncoat or True Believer? As CEO of Web-tool maker Crossgain, Tod Nielsen walks a tightrope -- he's competing with the giant he once worked for and still feels loyalty toward http://www.businessweek.com/ebiz/0012/em1206.htm 12/05-- What's Killing the E-Beauty Biz Big brands that withheld top products from the Web -- and sites that tried to succeed without them -- are the culprits. Still, it's too early to count out e-beauty http://www.businessweek.com/ebiz/0012/ep1204.htm 12/01 -- The Cyber Gift of Last Resort Here's how three of the best-known online gift certificate sites stack up http://www.businessweek.com/ebiz/0012/el1201.htm New from BW Online: The Small Business Rate Report If you're looking for a business loan or trying to understand small companies better, click into BWOL's infographic tour of the small business credit market. The series of charts includes interest rates, key terms and provisions, and market forecasts. The data is updated periodically based on monthly and quarterly surveys from federal and private sources. http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/resources/rate_report/sb_rate_report.htm ________________________________________________________________________ FRONTIER ONLINE [http://frontier.businessweek.com] 12/07 -- Feeling the Squeeze As the economy slows, small-business owners have one eye on increasingly cautious consumers -- and the other on their debt load http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2000/sb2000127_329.htm 12/06 -- Wanna Buy a Used Computer? Plenty of people do ???? though not yet enough for outfits like TechSmart to find gold in those mountains of corporate America's castoff hardware http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2000/sb2000126_527.htm 12/05 -- Becoming a Partner It's worth weighing the upside and down before signing on as an equity partner http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2000/sb2000125_123.htm 12/01 -- Car-Sharing: Is It the Next Colossus of Roads? Neither a car-rental company nor a leasing outfit, Boston's Zipcar provides clean, reliable, no-fuss vehicles for members who need wheels only some of the time http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2000/sb2000121_155.htm ALSO, SIGN UP today to receive frontier's new e-mail newsletter for entrepreneurs. It's free. 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Check out our Cost of Living Search powered by Virtual Relocation at: http://www.businessweek.com/common_frames/bs.htm?/bschools/virtrelo/index.htm _____________________________________________________________________ NOTE: BusinessWeek Online (http://www.businessweek.com) and LeadersOnline (http://www.leadersonline.com), the Web unit of executive recruiter Heidrick and Struggles, have published the premiere issue of LeadersOnline, the companion magazine to their joint Web site (www.businessweek.com/careers/). The October/November issue provides original career information and commentary, plus content from BusinessWeek Online. The joint BusinessWeek Online-LeadersOnline Web site provides a meeting place for middle and upper managers worldwide. The LeadersOnline cover story looks at how an executive recruiter might go about choosing the next President. 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Here's why he shouldn't be too concerned http://www.businessweek.com/careers/content/dec2000/ca2000124_510.htm _____________________________________________________________________ See you online, Patricia O'Connell insider@businessweek.com BW Online The Business Week Online Insider Newsletter is a FREE service provided to Business Week Online readers. If you need to update your email address -- or to remove it from our mailing list, click here: http://newsletters.businessweek.com/Change-Remove/a14109a62891954a2
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