With Dell Computer and 3Com the latest U.S. tech employers to trim jobs rosters, nervous employees might start looking at the travel industry for their next gigs. A new survey shows North America dominating British travelers' top destinations. The travel firm's survey also named Boston, Toronto, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Montreal and San Francisco among the favorite spots for Britons, whose currency, the pound, competes with the U.S. dollar as one of the world's strongest currencies. Egypt's Cairo, the United Arab Emirates' Dubai and Jordan's Amman. Terra Lycos is headquartered in Spain and operates in 42 countries.
China is seen as having vast potential for new Internet users.
Yet advertising revenue in the country is slight at best, experts say. The buyer was a Beijing software company. See the story. An FTMarketWatch poll this month concluded that investors were split on which way the markets were headed. Yet Eric Tyson, a San Francisco-area financial consultant, says the results may indicate trouble ahead.