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Date: 05 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
GigaMedia Ltd, one of Taiwan's largest Internet service providers, and Satellite Television Asia Region Ltd, unit of News Corp, will invest more than $100 million in new venture that will enable Taiwan's 4.8 million cable subscribers to order goods and services through their television sets; venture is blow to Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd, Asia's No. 2 Internet company (S)
Date: 05 October 2000
By Jayson Blair
Jayson Blair
New York Post, which is in midst of heated price competition with The Daily News, has disciplined one of its pressmen for 'his role in fomenting the deliberate slowdown of operations,' (S)
Date: 04 October 2000
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Comment on Fox's new science-fiction series Freakylinks, which begins on Oct 6; photo; summary of recent ratings numbers for various program; World Wrestling Federation moves its programming from cable's USA Network to MTV, and lesser-known TNN; Roger E Ailes, Fox News Channel chief exec, agrees to stay with cable news channel for three years (M)
Date: 04 October 2000
By Steven Erlanger
Steven Erlanger
Serbia threatens crackdown on organizers of spreading general strike aimed at ousting Yugoslav Pres Slobodan Milosevic and on independent media reporting on effort; opposition is trying to force Milosevic to concede outright, first-round electoral victory to Vojislav Kostunica; opposition leaders cite evidence of vote fraud that added up to 170,000 votes to Milosevic's total; photo of striking students (M)
Date: 04 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing agrees to buy Robinson Nugent Inc for $115 million in stock and assumed debt to add Internet router connectors to its Interconnect business (S)
Date: 05 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tyco International Ltd acquires medical device maker InnerDyne Inc for about $180 million in stock (S)
Date: 04 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Delta Petroleum Corp agrees to buy stakes in 680 wells in Texas and New Mexico from Saga Petroleum Corp for $49.5 million in cash and stock; wells produce 1,750 barrels of oil and gas a day (S)
Date: 05 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Aspect Medical Systems Inc, maker of anesthesia-monitoring device, says it will report third-quarter revenue that will be significantly below analysts' estimates, resulting in loss for period (S)
Date: 04 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Affymetrix Inc, maker of DNA chips technology used by medical researchers, forms unit to identify and analyze genetic variations in humans for developing and testing drugs; unit, Perlegen Sciences Inc, plans to use about $100 million in financing from unidentified source to hire scientists and begin processing DNA samples; Perlegen will buy Affymetrix's DNA chips to analyze genetic variations and build database of 50 human genetic profiles (S)
Date: 04 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Baggage handlers and ramp workers at Delta Air Lines Inc again vote against joining Transport Workers Union, giving Delta continuing cost advantage over rivals; about 18.8 percent, or 1,845 of 9,804 eligible workers, vote in favor of joining TWU or another union (S)