The combined company will be stronger from a distribution and product standpoint. Nevertheless, we do not expect the merger of the two companies to alleviate the pressures from low fixed product sales and the challenging interest-rate environment.

Fundamentally, this company depends on capital spending coming back, and I think IT spending will come back in the fourth quarter,

The single most important trend affecting ISPs over the coming years will be free Internet access, and no company is better positioned to benefit from that than CMGI,

Our company will commission the first factory in Vietnam in early 2006 to manufacture C3Play, transceiver equipment used for digital TV and wireless Internet.

The jurors will have to make a decision not only about the drug, but the company that marketed the drug.

People tend to think their company will have an IPO and everyone will get rich. But for every eBay or Amazon out there, there's a lot more that go to the wayside. Options aren't everything they're cracked up to be — they're like buying a lottery ticket, except you get to influence it.