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INTERNATIONAL Mazda, Ford consider joint bid for Kia Motors TOKYO - Mazda Motor Corp. said Friday it was considering joining Ford Motor Co. in a bid for South Korea's failed Kia Motors Corp. ``We are studying the opportunity of jointly participating with Ford in international bidding for Kia Motors,'' Mazda said. It declined to give details. Ford and Mazda already jointly hold a 16.9 percent slice of Kia. Ford owns 33.4 percent of Mazda. Mazda also said...
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New chief at IFC Robert J. Blagojevich was named chairman, president and chief executive officer of Tampa-based IFC Holdings Inc., the company said Friday. He succeeds Merlin R. Gackle. Area code problems fixed AT&T Corp. and GTE Corp. said Friday they fixed glitches that gave some Tampa Bay area cellular customers problems in receiving pages and voice mail messages. Some customers in the new 727 area code of Pinellas and west Pasco counties said they were unable to receive...
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Here are highlights of today's forums. For more listings, check your online service or Chat Soup on the Internet at http://www.chatsoup.com AMERICA ONLINE: Afro-Cuban jazz pianist Hilton Ruiz on his latest work, Hands on Percussion, 9 p.m. Keywords: AOL Live.COMPUSERVE: Brian Hurley and Peter Birkwood, authors of Doing Big Business on the Internet, on starting a successful business on the Internet, 2 p.m. Go: INetCom.New on the 'Net COURT TV: Court TV:...
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Chip sales slumping Worldwide sales of computer microchips slumped for a third straight month in May, the Semiconductor Industry Association says. May sales declined 12.7 percent, compared with the same month last year, to $9.997 billion. Sales fell in all four regional markets tracked by the SIA - the Americas, Japan, Europe and the Asia-Pacific market.Easing World Wide Wait Federal regulators want to help ease the World Wide Wait on the Internet. At a hearing Thursday, the...
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Compaq Computer Corp. is dispatching technicians to Sam's Wholesale Clubs nationwide to fix possible problems with its Presario 5015 computers. A clip that holds Intel's Celeron processor to the computer was found missing in some computers at a Houston Sam's Club. Without the clip, some processors could be dislodged during shipment. Houston-based Compaq said it would have the problem fixed by the end of the weekend after checking all of the 5015 computers,...