Sentence examples for computer businesses and from inspiring English sources

After Lucent began in 1996 as a $21 billion spinoff of AT&T's manufacturing and computer businesses and its stock price grew, employees relished their stock benefits and talked about how they would allow them to retire early.

"The merger was largely predicated on improving the efficiency in the PC and large computer businesses, and this quarter saw real material improvement in both," said A. M. Sacconaghi, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company.

By the middle of the decade, he had sold his computer businesses and moved on to transportation with the Sinclair C5 electric vehicle, which was designed with a single seat but, bafflingly for as wet and chilly a country as Britain, without a roof.

As of March 31, it still owed more than $3.1 million to a variety of vendors, including telephone companies, media consultants, insurance firms, computer businesses and attorneys, among others.

But in doing so, they revolutionised the computer business and brought colour to people's lives.

OfficeMax has shut down its money-losing computer business and plans to close unprofitable stores.

He watched as Netscape grew dramatically, brazenly challenged Microsoft's hold on the computer business and experienced a devastating counterattack.

In that move, AT&T shed its troubled NCR computer business and spun off its equipment unit as Lucent Technologies.

Debbie Millman, president, Sterling Brands Jobs is the ultimate corporate risk taker — he revolutionized the computer business, and the entire entertainment business.

But when those elections come, he said he would be back managing his small computer business and raising his three young sons, not running for office.

Both the personal computer business and, even more so, its large computer operation showed sizable losses, losing market share to rivals like Dell Computer and I.B.M.