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Show The Salt Lake Tribune BUSINESS Friday . June 25, 1999 Antitrust Trial Ends WASHINGTON — Testimony woundto an end Thursdayafter 76 days in the landmark Microsoft antitrusttrial, a courtroom drama that offered a unique look at the nation’s booming high-tech indus- try and the software giant that dominatesit. ‘Thetrial’'s final witness, economist Richard Schmalensee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, argued forcefully that the $14 billion MicrosoftCorp. isn’t the entrenched monopolistthat illegally wields extraordinary influence, as portrayed by the government. Schmalensee described a raft of competitors on Microsoft's horizon — the $10billionalliance between rivals America Online Inc. and Netscape Communications Corp., hand-held computers and a new generation of software running across high-speed Internet connections. Butin what becameroutine during thetrial, the company’s witness waschallenged again Thursdayin a piercing cross-examination by David Boies, the Justice Department lawyer whose tough questioning has sometimes appeared to inflict upon Microsoft the courtroom equivalent of a computer system Name las wh ES DulBro pfk 1.56 1030 18% Cee smc Ly 17 3 4 ___5 Prices are expressed in fractions. Common fractions: Y= i25¢ Y= 25 7.5¢ 54 6254 34 = 75¢ 14 = 8756 @ Stock Name: This isthe abbreviation issued to each stock The symbol uses no spaces. If you see a space, itis to set aside a footnote @ Footnotes: u— Anew 52-week high. d — Anew 52.week low 9 — Dividends or earings in Canadian money. Stock trades in US. dollars. No yeld or PE unless stated in U.S. money. n— New issue in the past 52 weeks. 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The FTC announced efforts to combatfraudulent health products on the Webandalert consumers. whoincreasingly are using the Internet as a major source of health information, to be discerning The FTC also has evidence that consumers are tapping into the dark side of the Internet's resources and coming up with less- than-credible medical advice. 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B5E3 eee 33g CompUSA to Cut Up to 1,500 Jobs in Overhaul DALLAS — The personal com. puterretailer CompUSA Inc. plans to cut 1,000 to 1.500 jobs, or up to 7 percent its work force, as part of an overhaul designed to boost profitability. i through ATMtransactions Wells Fargo & Co., threatened with a class-action lawsuit. agreed Wednesdayto be thefirst bank in the nation to install talking ATM machines, Thoughthe technologyis still being developed. the machines will S85ou8 aie Soeuy 7 AN FRANCISCO — Blind bank customers in California may no longer have to feel their way 25s exe SHEEN tt Equihf peweeel Wells Fargo Banks Plan To Install Talking ATMs 5 ‘g 8 Valassis 528 6 Valero 4577 + Vem is 5m aso 2 Ge 3 TG? 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