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Former AOL exec to take profits - Scott Zakarin, who pioneered America Online's Entertainment Asylum and the now-defunct Web soap The Spot, has filed to sell stock in the online giant. [News.com]
 
Former stockbroker pleads guilty - A former stockbroker has pleaded guilty to insider trading in the stock of Spectrum Information Technologies, admitting his role in a scheme to profit from the high-tech company's 1993 hiring of the former head of Apple Computer. [News.com]
 
Free Net access in the future? - While Internet service providers angle for customers with discounts of a few dollars per month, other players are developing strategies to offer service for free. [News.com]
 
Free Net access thrives outside U.S. - Offering free Internet access has proved a perilous experiment in the United States, with the number of failed efforts roughly matching the number of struggling ones. But in other countries, including Canada, Sweden, Spain, Germany, and the United Kingdom, free Net access appears to be a thriving market. [News.com]
 
French Net services a done deal - America Online, German publisher Bertelsmann, and France's Vivendi conglomerate said today that they had sealed a pact for Internet services in France. [News.com]
 
Fujitsu forgoes Netscape - Fujitsu has stopped preinstalling Netscape Communications' Navigator browser in its personal computers. [News.com]
 
Fujitsu to make Java chips - Fujitsu said today that it plans to mass-produce system chips for operating systems based on the Java programming language starting next year for Internet and home devices. [News.com]
 
Futures trading heads for Net - Trading via the Internet is on the verge of becoming an everyday reality, raising new challenges for market watchdogs, European and U.S. regulators told a financial industry conference today. [News.com]
 
GOP leaders blast Y2K efforts - Republican leaders are lashing out at the Clinton administration for playing down the Year 2000 bug, establishing a new congressional committee and a plan to seek $4 billion in emergency spending to fix the technology problem. [News.com]
 
Galileo suffers in weak chip market - Semiconductor maker Galileo Technology said today it expects results for its second quarter will be below analysts' expectations due to reduced demand and cancelled orders in the midst of a transition to new product lines. [News.com]
 
Game chipmaker goes mainstream - 3Dfx Interactive, a graphics chipmaker that has built a name for itself in video games with its Voodoo 3D products, unveiled a new chip intended to help the company expand into the mainstream PC market. [News.com]
 
Gates blasts DOJ in essay - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has slammed federal and state trustbusters who have filed an antitrust action against his software company as "the government's lawsuit on behalf of Netscape Communications," in his broadest defense of the company to date. [News.com]
 
Gates group buys London hotel - A U.S. consortium including Microsoft chief Bill Gates today said it had agreed to buy Britain's Cliveden house west of London, a hotel steeped in political history. [News.com]
 
Gates headlines Windows launch - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates introduced Windows 98 today at an official launch party here in the Bay Area. [News.com]
 
Gates is the richest man, again - Microsoft mogul Bill Gates has cracked the $50 billion barrier, making him once again the richest man in the world, according to Forbes magazine's ranking of the world's billionaires. [News.com]
 
Gates: Antitrust case now moot - Microsoft chairman and chief executive Bill Gates told CNBC today that the heart of the government antitrust suit against his company was destroyed by this week's federal appeals court ruling. [News.com]
 
Gates: Net boxes to pass PCs - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates today predicted that consumer devices such as televisions and cameras that can access the Internet will become more common than personal computers. [News.com]
 
Gates: PCs to weather Asia crisis - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said today that he is optimistic about the continuing growth of the personal computer industry despite Asia's financial crisis. [News.com]
 
Gates: Suit won't disrupt business - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said today that the U.S. government's antitrust suit against his company would not affect its business. [News.com]
 
Gateway cuts PC prices - Gateway 2000 said today it cut prices by up to 9 percent on its business PCs. [News.com]
 
 

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