Symbol Technologies seeks to sell itself: WSJ
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Symbol Technologies Inc. SBL.N, a   maker of bar code and inventory scanning technology, is   auctioning itself, and mobile phone company Motorola Inc.   MOT.N is the most likely buyer, the Wall Street Journal   reported on Saturday.
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Nasdaq Stock Market Inc  has  weighed selling a piece of itself to an overseas investor to  help it seal a deal to buy Nordic exchange operator OMX AB  , the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on  Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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In a sign that the New York Times Co.  may be trying to appease investors who have criticized it, the newspaper publisher invited Morgan Stanley money manager Hassan Elmasry and another large shareholder, T. Rowe Price Group Inc., to make presentations to its board of directors late last month, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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By Mark Harrington And James Bernst, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 19--Shares of Symbol Technologies Inc. rose more than 15 percent  yesterday, as some speculated the Holtsville mobile computer and bar-code  scanner giant was closing in on finding a possible suitor.
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German electronics giant Siemens is planning to de-list its shares from the New York Stock Exchange because of the high costs of maintaining a listing on Wall Street.
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The health-care software company has a splashy debut on Wall Street.
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If all you care about is reported profit, you wouldn't want any part of owning the Wall Street Journal. The paper, for all its cachet and influence, is at best marginally profitable; the profits of its parent, Dow Jones, come primarily from electronic data distribution. But the Journal, financial...
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In an effort to capture more readers and advertising dollars, Dow Jones &amp; Co. is launching a Saturday edition of its flagship newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, beginning in September 2005, the company announced Wednesday.
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Universal Electronics Inc. , a wireless technology developer that makes remote controls for consumer electronics companies, sits on top of a "fast-growing niche," Barron's reported in its February 26 edition.
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Applying public pressure to persuade Dow  Jones & Co.&#39;s  family owners to sell the media company to  Rupert Murdoch may do more harm than good, one institutional  shareholder said on Thursday.
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Applying public pressure to persuade Dow Jones & Co.'s  family owners to sell the media company to Rupert Murdoch may do more harm than good, one institutional shareholder said on Thursday.
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Media & professional: News Corp's bid for the Wall Street Journal is a bold play - not least because of the size of the offer.
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General Electric Co.  and Pearson Plc  may challenge News Corp.'s  $5 billion bid for Dow Jones & Co. , with a plan that could let Dow Jones's controlling family to keep an interest in the company, the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal reported on their Web sites on Sunday.
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Alltel Corp.  has stepped up  efforts to sell itself to carriers such as AT&T Inc. ,  Verizon Communications Inc.  and Sprint Nextel Corp.  , said people familiar with the matter, as the Little  Rock, Ark.-based wireless company tries to chart a new future,  The Wall Street Journal reported.
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The Instinet Group, owner of one of the largest electronic stock trading systems, is for sale, executives briefed on the plan say.
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The Motley Fool - The Olympic Games are now history, but not AT&amp;T's (NYSE: T - News) &#36;25 million ad campaign to redefine its image. After years of getting clobbered by the regional Bell companies such as BellSouth (NYSE: BLS - News), Verizon (NYSE: VZ - News), Sprint (NYSE: FON - News), and MCI (Nasdaq: MCIP - News), the company has turned its business focus from traditional phone service to networking.
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(InfoWorld) - Apparently it's not enough that Sun peppers any and all discussions of its hardware and software products with liberal mentions of its Java programming language, now the vendor wants Wall Street to sit up and take more note of its homegrown technology too. As of Monday, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s ticker on the Nasdaq stock exchange will be Java, as the vendor turns its back on the SUNW ticker, which has served the company since it went public in 1986. Sun announced the upcoming change on Thursday. Sun had its origins on the Stanford campus where three of the California university's graduate students Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, and Scott McNealy, along with Berkeley graduate Bill Joy, came together to found the company in 1982. The name Sun originally stood for Stanford University Network, while the W indicated Sun's first products: workstations. In a Thursday posting on his blog, Sun president and CEO Jonathan Schwartz heralded the ticker change as recognizing that the Java brand is much better known than Sun, the company behind it. "The number of people who know Java swamps the number of people who know Sun," he wrote, pointing to the technology's ubiquity as it's present in most of today's PCs, mobile devices and embedded systems. While the SUNW symbol is well known in the financial community, it represents "nostalgic value" and "the past," according to Schwartz. By contrast, the Java brand is "inseparably a part of Sun (and our profitability)," he added. Schwartz was careful to state that the ticker name change wasn't indicative of any change in strategy for Sun, which will continue to offer a mix of products. "But we are no longer simply a workstation company, nor a company whose products can be limited by one category -- and Java does a better job of capturing exactly that sentiment than any other four letter symbol," he wrote. "Java means limitless opportunity -- for our software, systems, storage, service and microelectronics businesses." Initial reactions to Sun's ticker change were mostly unfavorable -- "a terrible idea," "a waste of money," "a stupid move," "a joke," and "worst idea ever," according to most of the comments appended to Schwartz's blog. Commentators saw the Java ticker as limiting, not expressive of Sun's overall product portfolio and also very much yesterday's technology. While Java has been widely adopted, its ubiquity and its 12 years in the market add up to a dated technology, they wrote. Sun began work on what later became Java in 1991 as a project code-named "Oak" initially for use in set-top boxes. The company then re-evaluated the work it had done and repurposed the effort as a new programming language with the mantra of "Write once, run anywhere." In other words, developers could create a program in Java and then have it run without alternation on a wide variety of hardware platforms. Sun unveiled Java in 1995, and, after some initial hiccups, the vendor saw widespread adoption of the language by developers working at all different sizes of companies from very large enterprises to small embedded systems startups. After committing to open-source Java in May 2006,Â Sun finally began making Java freely available in NovemberÂ under both its own open source license, CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License), and the GNU general public license version 2 (GPLv2). The move is in line with Sun's promise to eventually make more of its software available as open source technologies.