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Priceline, LendingTree tie up - Priceline.com and LendingTree formed a strategic alliance designed to allow consumers to name their interest rates and terms when shopping for home mortgages on the Internet. [News.com]
 
Printer sales drop in Asia - Amidst economic turmoil in Asia, demand for printers in the region declined 8.7 percent in the second quarter of 1998, according to a Dataquest report. [News.com]
 
Printer sales drop in Japan - Japanese printer sales in the first half of 1998 fell 10.5 percent to 1.95 million units from the same period a year earlier, market research firm Dataquest said today. [News.com]
 
Prodigy plans to go public - Prodigy Communications, one of the earliest Internet service providers, today announced that it has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of common stock. [News.com]
 
Profit warnings down for quarter - As the current quarter comes to a close, fewer tech companies are on track to post earnings surprises than the previous quarter, when a record number of companies issued preliminary warnings to Wall Street that their results would fall short of expectations. [News.com]
 
Public policy body addresses Y2K - A nonprofit think tank is demanding more leadership from public policy makers, cooperation between industries in the private sector, and better coverage by the media with regard to the Year 2000 technology problem. [News.com]
 
Qualcomm merges phone, handheld - Qualcomm will come out with a combination digital phone and handheld digital assistant based around 3Com's Palm operating system in the first half of 1999, a merger of two executive toys that could define the shape of things to come. [News.com]
 
Quantum to revamp disk drive unit - Information storage devices maker Quantum said yesterday that it plans to implement operational changes to its hard disk drive business that would cut annual expenses by $60 million. [News.com]
 
Quark no longer wants Adobe - Quark today dropped its bid to acquire rival Adobe Systems, citing market conditions and Adobe's unwillingness to agree to a deal. [News.com]
 
Quark, Adobe merger questioned - Should Quark and Adobe merge? [News.com]
 
Qwest CEO sees revenue increase - Qwest Communications International chief executive said today that he sees the telecommunications company's 1998 revenue increasing to about $3 billion. [News.com]
 
Qwest will buy Icon CMT - Qwest Communications said today that it had agreed to buy Internet services company Icon CMT in a $185 million stock deal designed to bolster the telecommunications company's bid to expand its multimedia service offerings. [News.com]
 
Raising funds for Net names body - As the U.S. government prepares to withdraw from the business of administering Internet addresses, a private-sector consortium has launched a drive to fund the nonprofit organization that will take over the government's responsibilities. [News.com]
 
Rational debuts app testing tool - Implementing a massive enterprise resource planning software system like SAP's R/3 is painstaking, but it's only part of the equation. Making sure it works is also a necessary step. [News.com]
 
RealNetworks and 7th Level in pact - 7th Level said RealNetworks has begun selling 7th Level's animation software, leading to a surge in both companies' stocks. [News.com]
 
RealNetworks in AOL deal - RealNetworks has reached a deal to distribute its Internet media software through America Online, a key endorsement that already has given its stock a kick-start today [News.com]
 
Rebounding Cabletron beats Street - Despite beating estimates, networking equipment provider Cabletron Systems dipped more than 9 percent in early morning trading. [News.com]
 
Record point gains on Wall Street - Stock traders returned refreshed to Wall Street after the Labor Day holiday to spark a rally that boosted the Dow 380 points today, a record-setting gain. [News.com]
 
Redmond: DOJ is desperate - Microsoft today accused antitrust prosecutors of filing a groundless suit four months ago and then desperately trying to rewrite the case just weeks before the trial is set to begin. [News.com]
 
Regulators postpone wiretap rules - Federal regulators defused a looming confrontation between the telephone industry and the FBI by deciding that changes needed to the phone system to allow future law enforcement wiretaps would not be required until June 2000. [News.com]
 
 

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