"The Powerize 50" for Week of April 3: Market Watchers Take "Wait & See" Approach.Business Editors RESTON Reston, uninc. city (1990 pop. 48,556), Fairfax co., N Va., a planned community established in 1961. A suburb of Washington, D.C., Reston is organized in a series of residential villages and commercial areas. , VA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2000 A lack of change from last week's Powerize 50 suggests uncertainty this week among market watchers and business researchers, who seem to be taking a "wait and see" approach to technology companies following Monday's federal court ruling against Microsoft (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, www.microsoft.com) The most successful and influential software company. Microsoft's software and Intel's hardware pioneered the PC and revolutionized the computer industry. . Only 11 new companies appear on the weekly list of companies being watched by individual investors and business researchers at www.powerize.com, which is derived by tracking the search requests of more than 400,000 Powerize.com members. 39 companies carry over from last week's Powerize 50, most of them in the technology sector. Ariba holds onto the top spot for the fourth straight week, while Microsoft slips to sixth. The balance of this week's top ten most searched-for companies: Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. (2), Lucent Technologies (3), Dragon Systems Dragon Systems, Inc., was the company that created DragonDictate and Dragon NaturallySpeaking. It was founded in 1982 by Drs. James and Janet Baker and bought by Lernout & Hauspie in 2000. (4), JDS Uniphase JDS Uniphase Corporation (JDSU) NASDAQ: JDSU is a company that manufactures and designs products for fiber optic communication and test equipment. It is headquartered in Milpitas, California, USA. (5), Phone.com The former name of Openwave Systems. See Openwave. (7), Coca-Cola Coca-Cola soft drink found throughout the world. [Trademarks:Crowley Trade, 115] See : Ubiquity (8), Cheap Tickets (9) and Qwest (Qwest Communications International Inc., Denver, CO, www.qwest.com) A telecommunications company that offers services to telecom carriers, businesses and homes using an extensive fiber-optic network throughout the U.S. and Mexico. (10). Given current market uncertainties, particularly in the high-flying technology sector, next week's Powerize 50 should prove interesting.
The Powerize 50 for Week of April 3, 2000
Rank Company Last Wk
1 Ariba 1
2 Cisco Systems 2
3 Lucent Technologies 8
4 Dragon Systems 4
5 JDS Uniphase 3
6 Microsoft 5
7 Phone.com 17
8 Coca-Cola 25
9 Cheap Tickets 26
10 Qwest 14
11 Puma Technology 31
12 EMC 20
13 Lernout & Hauspie 13
14 i2 Technologies 24
15 Commerce One 21
16 Pacific Century Cyberworks -
17 America Online 50
18 Amgen -
19 Corning 7
20 PeopleSoft -
21 Ciena 6
22 Solectron 22
23 Baan 35
24 Gilat 19
25 Optical Networks 10
26 SanDisk 48
27 Exodus Communications 39
28 IBM 42
29 ADC Telecommunications 9
30 Digital Lightwave 15
31 Oracle -
32 Veritas Software 44
33 Boeing 46
34 Sycamore Networks 12
35 NetSpeak 37
36 Corvis 11
37 Bell Atlantic 30
38 Nam Tai Electronics -
39 Ligand Pharmaceuticals -
40 Nuance Communications 33
41 DSL.net 27
42 Webvan -
43 Celestica 43
44 Nokia -
45 Covad Communications 18
46 Clarus -
47 Akamai Technologies 16
48 Albertson's Inc. -
49 Bank One 49
50 Homegrocer.com -
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