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RealNetworks, Netscape ink deal - RealNetworks, marking its third major distribution deal in four weeks, will announce an agreement today to integrate its audio and video software into Netscape Communications' Internet browsers. [News.com]
 
Record investments in Net firms - Venture capital investments in Internet-related companies hit a record $887 million in 164 companies during the second quarter of 1998, according to a new survey announced today. [News.com]
 
Report: Handheld sales to boom - In 1999, the worldwide smart handheld devices market will experience robust growth, with device unit shipments reaching 10.7 million units, up 45 percent from 1998 shipments, International Data Corp. said in a report. [News.com]
 
Report: PC demand nears peak - The PC industry faces a bumpy ride over the next few years, a new report concludes, as vendors and customers try to plan for the Year 2000 bug and plummeting hardware prices. [News.com]
 
Report: Piracy hits job growth - The Business Software Alliance is aiming to draw more attention to software piracy by releasing a report that indicates software piracy has become a major impediment to job growth and a drain on government tax revenue. [News.com]
 
Rewritable DVD: A year unchanged - Recordable DVD drives could be a big hit with consumers, but a simmering standards battle is jeopardizing widespread acceptance of the technology. [News.com]
 
Rockefeller: E-rate will survive - One of the chief masterminds behind federal Net access subsidies for schools and libraries today said the embattled "e-rate" won't be caught in the political crossfire of the next Congress. [News.com]
 
S&P cuts Baan credit rating - Standard & Poor's today placed business management software provider Baan on credit watch with "negative implications," for its double-B long-term corporate credit and single-B plus subordinated debt. The action follows Baan's poor third quarter results, S&P said. [News.com]
 
S3 reports huge loss - Graphics chipmaker S3 today reported a substantial slide in earnings during the third quarter, the fallout from a year of turmoil in the graphics market. [News.com]
 
S3 to go after Intel next? - Although S3 has primarily been known as a graphics chip vendor, the company may increasingly become associated with patent litigation. [News.com]
 
SA tips digital TV plans - Scientific-Atlanta, one of the largest suppliers of communications equipment to the cable TV industry, today laid out plans for helping cable networks bring digital television to its customers. [News.com]
 
SAP adapts R/3 for media firms - SAP wants to be in pictures...and publishing, and print, and on the Web. [News.com]
 
SAP adds retail with Campbell buy - The retail industry is looking mmm! mmm! good to SAP. So good that the software giant announced today that it is buying Campbell Software to supplement its current retail line. [News.com]
 
SAP earnings a reality check - SAP's growth rates are starting to come out of the clouds and down to a more earthly level. [News.com]
 
SAP's growth rate on target - SAP's growth rate is right on target for 1998. [News.com]
 
SBC buys stake in Concentric - SBC Communications, the second largest U.S. local phone company, today announced it will buy a 4 percent stake in Concentric Network as part of a deal to integrate Concentric's Internet-based business data services into SBC's portfolio of services for business customers. [News.com]
 
SCO falls short in 1998 - A profitable fourth quarter for Santa Cruz Operation wasn't enough to pull the company into the black for this fiscal year. [News.com]
 
SEC adopts Y2K rule - The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday that it unanimously adopted a rule requiring all mutual fund companies and investment advisers to report their year 2000 preparedness plans to the commission. [News.com]
 
SEC adopts Y2K rule - The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday that it unanimously adopted a rule requiring all mutual fund companies and investment advisers to report their year 2000 preparedness plans to the commission. [News.com]
 
SEC demands Y2K updates - The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged 37 brokerage firms for failing to report the status of their Year 2000 technology problem preparedness as required by the federal government, the commission said. [News.com]
 
 

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