Also . . .

* Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. said profit grew 28% in its fiscal first quarter to $30 million, or 10 cents a share, helped by aggressive store growth and higher sales. The retailer’s results matched analyst forecasts. Sales jumped 25% to $575.8 million, while sales at stores open at least a year rose 4.4%.

* Desktop computer disk drive maker Maxtor Corp. said it’s cutting as many as 1,500 employees, or about 14% of its work force, accelerating cost-cutting because of weakness and uncertainty in the personal computer market. About 700 to 800 of the cuts will be made in the U.S. over the next six months, and 700 jobs were cut immediately in Singapore.

* Research in Motion Inc., maker of the popular BlackBerry wireless device, said its fiscal first-quarter earnings climbed to $3.8 million, or 5 cents a share, from $400,000, or 1 cent, a year ago, matching forecasts. Revenue jumped 184% to $77 million.

* Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, said it will cut more jobs as part of a plan to reduce expenses. The new round of cuts will be smaller than the 520 made earlier this year, a spokeswoman said.