24 January 2001

By The Morning News — 24 Jan 2001

Tech stocks lead Wall St. gains.

Microsoft will pay $20M for its use of Sun's Java.

Verizon's penalties in NYC grew 700 percent this year, possibly totaling $43M.

Career experts offer first-aid to recently laid-off twenty-somethings. [wsj]

After killing its entire business software portfolio, IBM calls for retrenchment, not retreat.

Netscape.com will become content portal for AOL/TW's entertainment kingdom.

The return of Johnny Utah: Super Bowl goes Matrix-style.

Building owners in Tokyo required to plant lawns on rooftops.

Lucent will cut 10,000 jobs.

AOL will drop 2,000.

MarchFirst loses another 550.

we overheard this at Cafe 52 on Tuesday from some snarky consultant looking guy who was complaining to his girlfriend that they couldn't afford their 3K (!) apartment anymore since he was being laid off and though we'd like to claim the scoop, we still feel bad for these people and don't enjoy taking glory for their misery.

Excite@Home will lay off 250.

Holy Brightness! at Spectracol.

Caleb Carr, author of "The Alienist," starts an uproar with his recommendation for the Internet: regulation.