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SAN FRANCISCO--After several years of record activity, the IPO market for venturebacked companies turned significantly less attractive during the first half of 1994, according to research firm Venture-One, here. While […]

BOSTON--Reporting and analyzing security incident data is becoming almost as important as plugging system holes, according to the government's computer security experts. The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams […]

EDI growth projected The Electronic Data Interchange market will grow at rate of 25 percent or greater over the next five years, exceeding $1 billion by 1998, according to BIS […]

Wanted: Consultants Last year alone, U.S. companies spent $16.7 billion on management consulting, according to Consulting News. The world market figure for 1993 was $30.5 […]

The Korea Semiconductor Industry Association (KSIA) in Seoul says domestic chip makers' reliance on imported materials and equipment is still high, despite strong commitment to localization by public and private […]

Notable numbers from the road Internet While the nation's movers and shakers are all abuzz with promises of the info superhighway, some current statistics merit note. From the Internet: There […]

After taking a break last month, total logistics costs posted their biggest increase since March, rising 5.9 percent from October to November 1993. With both freight and warehousing costs down, [...]

Total rail traffic remains above last year's levels. Revenue ton-miles, as reported by the Association of American Railroads, were 1.6 percent higher in the first 47 weeks of 1993 than [...]

It is reported that Thomas Edison conducted some 50,000 experiments before finally developing a simple storage battery. Though many commented on his excessive number of failures, Edison saw his attempts […]

Total quality management may be alive and well at U.S. electronics companies, but the same can't be said for the government agencies that gather the statistics we all use to […]

Trade statistics show an economy that's making a gradual recovery. Freight traffic through Portland's marine terminals posted a 37.2 percent increase. Larger ships and more frequent scheduling at the Port [...]

'Demographics' is a favorite word in the publishing business and among pollsters and others concerned with identifying the characteristics of various segments of the population. Periodically, the Office of Personnel […]

Job seekers are still finding it hard. The total number of posts advertised in January, February and March was again less than in the same period the previous year -- […]

IBM STRATEGY If you are in business long term, which we are, you need market occupancy. We haven't done a good job of promoting the AS/400 in the past but […]

LARGE ORDER DISCOUNTS WordPerfect Corporation has introduced a Special Order Program for customers who purchase 50 or more of the same software package at one time. The large quantity purchases […]

WASHINGTON -- PC market heavyweights Apple, Compaq and IBM are among the computer vendors who have joined forces to form the U.S. Microcomputer Statistics Committee (USMSC), a group organized to […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Orders and shipments of semiconductors in the U.S. sagged again last mont, causing the book-to-bill ratio to fall to 0.94 and casting a shadow over forecasts […]

The Port of South Louisiana (La Port) reports a major increase in the chemical and fertilizer tonnage exported last year, over 1989 figures. The 1,795,300 tons shipped out in 1990 [...]

PC User is the most regularly read computer magazine in the UK, according to figures recently complied by PC directory publisher Codehigh. Of 18,387 computer users who responded to the […]

PC Slump Brings Book-to-Bill Under Parity CUPERTINO, Cali. -- Slumping sales to the personal computer market last month helped produce the first negative semiconductor book-to-bill ratio in over two years […]

Consumer electronics growth bucks the trend Consumer electronics growth continues to buck the slowdown trend this year. Personal consumption expenditures for TV and radio equipment totaled $71.5 billion during the […]

Computer backlogs shrink to historic lows The computer and office equipment manufacturers really took it on the chin. New orders for their equipment sagged 3.2% from June to July and […]

Passive prices mixed bag so far in 1988 Prices of capacitors and connectors jumped over 4% in the second quarter of 1988 compared with a year earlier. This spring surge […]

DEC Rank Mixed In BusinessWeek, Fortune 500 Lists DEC tumbled down the list of BusinessWeek's Top 1,000 U.S. companies--but rose eight spots in a similar Fortune magazine ranking. DEC fell […]

HP Expects PC Sales Jump Sales of PCs, printers and workstations continue to rise at Hewlett-Packard Co., which expects PC shipments to increase by more than 30 percent for 1989. […]

PC Competitors Are Picking Up Market Share at IBM's Expense IBM saw its share of the total installed base of PCs in the U.S. workplace decline by 5 percent during […]

August Parts Bookings Steady Components bookings and billings for industrial distributors showed modest gains in August amid signs that growth has plateaued following the robust spurt of last spring. To […]

Software Firms Notch Record $1.8B First-Half Sales The software industry grew at a record clip in the first half of 1988, according to a report from the Software Publishers Association […]

Statistics Step Forward Beginning in a few weeks, the statistics section of EUN will be greatly expanded, augmented and, generally speaking, improved. It will also be published separately from the [...]

June Semicon Book-to-Bill 1.15: SIA CUPERTINO, Calif. -- The semiconductor book-to-bill ratio for June was flat from May at 1.15, according to the preliminary estimates of the Semiconductor Industry Association, […]

THE world's busiest container port is now Hongkong, overtaking Rotterdam. It owes its Ascendancy largely to geography. As it is the main deep-water port for China, it has benefited from [...]