Technology and the Internet
Western Digital to Sell Unit: Western Digital Corp., raising some badly need cash, said it has reached a final agreement to sell its computer network business to New York-based Standard Microsystems Corp. for $33 million.
Sept. 18, 1991
Kenneth Brinkerhoff has been named divisional vice president of engineering for the System Products division of Standard Microsystems Corp., a personal computer products company.
March 26, 1996
Mountain View-based Netscape Communications Corp. said a standards body accepted a programming technology that it proposed based on Sun Microsystems Inc.’
June 27, 1997
Four big computer and software companies warned Sun Microsystems Inc. that they won’t support its proposal to make Java a standard in the industry if Sun tries to maintain control of it.
Sept. 12, 1997
Netscape Communications Corp. said it and Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. will announce today that they’re backing a computer-networking software standard.
March 11, 1997
Sun Microsystems Inc. will join rivals Microsoft Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. in developing a technical standard to make sure Web services transactions are secure.
June 28, 2002
Computers: Success would keep competitors like Microsoft from altering language.
July 4, 1997
Business
IBM Corp.
Dec. 13, 2000
Companies ranked by total revenue. 1992 Sales/Revenue % Change Rank Company ($ Millions) From 1991 1 Chevron Corp. 37,464.0 3 2 Atlantic Richfield Co. 19,248.0 2 3 Hewlett-Packard Co. 17,120.0 15 4 Rockwell International 10,837.9 -6 5 Lockheed Corp. 10,100.0 3 6 Unocal Corp. 8,895.0 -8 7 Occidental Petroleum 8,494.0 -16 8 Apple Computer Inc. 7,224.2 11 9 Intel Corp. 5,844.0 22 10 Litton Industries 5,592.1 2 11 Northrop Corp. 5,550.0 -3 12 Sun Microsystems 3,831.7 11 13 Dole Food Co Inc. 3,375.5 5 14 Seagate Technology 3,079.4 15 15 Teledyne Inc. 2,887.6 -10 Source: STAR Services.
April 27, 1993
Kristine Stewart has joined Irvine-based Western Digital Corp., a computer products company, as director of channel marketing for its Paradise Operations.
May 26, 1994