The screen is covered with ads for on-line gambling and those operations are probably also located in Barbados and just might be in some way associated with Naked News. Some good signs in the high-tech economy Intel is talking about improving sales. That usually translates, a few months down the road, to improving sales for computer manufacturers. News from IBM is good, too. AOL Time Warner is looking better, too.
Revenue is up and losses are down.
While the company isn't profitable, things are moving in the right direction. In January, the merger between AOL, the world's largest Internet service, and Time Warner, one of the world's largest owners of entertainment and publishing operations was approved. But Hewlett-Packard warned this week that its earnings will be half what it expected. Microsoft settles European anti-trust case Microsoft has pledged not to try to influence cable operators in which it owns stock to buy its products. The concession followed a long inquiry into Microsoft's digital cable investments.