WIRELESS PHONE OFFERING
Date: 23 June 2000
By Alan Cowell
Alan Cowell
Independent News and Media PLC, Ireland's biggest newspaper publisher, will sell shares in iTouch PLC, its wireless services provider, on London Stock Exchange; proceeds will be used for expansion (S)
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A Pioneer in a Man's World, She Was Tough Enough
Date: 23 June 2000
By Vicki Goldberg
Vicki Goldberg
Vicki Goldberg reviews news photographs by Jessie Tarbox Beals, at New-York Historical Society; photos (M)
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Truth and Death in Colombia
Date: 23 June 2000
By Ignacio Gomez G
Op-Ed article by Ignacio Gomez G, reporter and editor for El Espectador in Colombia, scores his government's failure to protect journalists, who he says are the only means of making sure that the forthcoming package of US financial aid to Colombia is used the way Congress wants it used; describes abduction, beating and rape of Jineth Bedoya, a 26-year-old reporter, by members of right-wing paramilitary and the government's lack of response; notes that other journalists have been killed and that he himself has been forced to leave Colombia because police officials refuse to protect him; drawing (M)
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Russian Media Executive, Freed From Jail, Finds New Pressure
Date: 22 June 2000
By Sabrina Tavernise
Sabrina Tavernise
Gazprom, Russia's biggest company, presses Vladimir A Gusinsky's Media-Most independent media conglomerate to repay large debt Gazprom paid for company in March; acts at urging of Pres Vladimir V Putin in wake of Gusinsky's release from jail pending trial on embezzlement charges; Media-Most seeks foreign investor to help ease pressure from Gazprom (M)
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SETTLEMENT OF COMPUTER ASSOCIATES SUIT IS APPROVED
Date: 23 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Computer Associates, top software maker, wins approval of Delaware Chancery Court judge for $234 million settlement with shareholders who contended that executives wrongly received more than $500 million in stock; two shareholders sued company in 1998, contending that three executives should return 9.5 million of 20.25 million shares they received in executive compensation (S)
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FISHER SCIENTIFIC IN $840 MILLION DEAL FOR PSS
Date: 23 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Fisher Scientific International, one of largest sellers of laboratory equipment, agrees to buy PSS World Medical for $840 million in stock to expand sales of medical products; will also assume about $260 million in PSS debt (S)
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VIRATA TO ACQUIRE EXCESS BANDWIDTH FOR $315 MILLION
Date: 22 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Virata Corp, which sells semiconductors and software, acquires Excess Bandwidth Corp for about $315 million in stock (S)
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UNOVA CONSIDERING OPTIONS TO RAISE PRICE OF ITS SHARES
Date: 22 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Unova Inc, leading maker of automated data collection systems, hires Credit Suisse First Boston to review options for raising its share price; says all alternatives are being considered, including sale of company (S)
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ERNST & YOUNG SPINNING OFF INTERNET SECURITY PRACTICE
Date: 22 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ernst & Young will spin off part of its Internet security practice, ESecurityOnline.com, into separate company (S)
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PEGASUS IS PAYING $100 MILLION FOR 12 DIRECTV AFFILIATES
Date: 23 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pegasus Communications, largest reseller of DirecTV satellite television service in rural areas, agrees to buy 12 DirecTV affiliates for $100.6 million in cash and stock; acquisitions let Pegasus expand in Texas, upper Midwest and central Plains (S)
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