The first batch of the 28 companies listed — including film producers, software makers and pharmaceutical companies — raised about $2 billion in their initial public offerings, far more than the companies had hoped.
The BLDRS Europe 100 ADR Index Fund tracks the performance of a basket of 100 European-based companies in a range of industries, including banking, electronic equipment, leisure goods, media, oil and gas producers, software and computer services and tobacco.
A.A dying business bent on its own destruction B.America's chief producer of software content.
Four years later it added to its U.S. exposure by buying ArtOfTest, a producer of software testing tools.
Sun, a major producer of software and hardware, plans to announce an ambitious effort for the wireless Internet -- a market in which Sun's Java programming language is already widely used and Microsoft's.Net is barely an also-ran.
Mr. Hill, also 27, works in the corporate strategy and business development group for Gemstar-TV Guide International, the publisher of TV Guide and a producer of software and other technology for television program guides, in Pasadena, Calif.
DB EVENTURES INC., London, a venture-capital unit of Deutsche Bank, said it had led a $14 million investment in Gilian Technologies Inc., Redwood Shores, Calif., a producer of software to make Web sites more secure.
Here is the math: Seagate owns 30percentt of Veritas Software, a producer of software used in storage area networks; the stake is worth the equivalent of $70.499 for each Seagate share.
OTTAWA, Nov. 12 — Cognos, the last major independent producer of software that companies use to analyze mountains of data, agreed on Monday to be acquired by I.B.M. for $4.9 billion in cash.
The new Xbox will go on sale in Europe and Japan in coming weeks.Despite Microsoft's impregnable strength as a producer of software, its foray into hardware brings it up against two other considerable powers, both from Japan: Sony and Nintendo.
