Lucent Technologies Incorporated

WASHINGTON Tony Olender was on vacation in Washington, doing the Smithsonian, all the tourist sites, even the Bureau of Engraving. Then the Florida retiree decided he better check on the state of his 401(k). So he got in line yesterday outside Room...

Sometimes a company defines a local economy, if not in reality then in perception. For a long time in the Lehigh Valley, it was Bethlehem Steel with its long and storied history. More recently, it was the flameout of Agere Systems, the former Lucent...

Most investors probably are hoping that the market turmoil of the last few months is blowing over. But if it's just a prelude to a much more serious financial shakeout, Howard Marks and Bruce Karsh are ready to pick up the pieces. Marks, Karsh and their...

At the racetrack, everybody dreams of putting money on a long-shot horse and winning big. Investors harbor similar dreams, but most who speculate in stocks would have better luck betting on a sorry-looking nag. When a stock seems down and out, there's...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is collecting the cellular phone and pager numbers of people missing in the World Trade Center wreckage for use in trying to locate them. FEMA spokesman James McIntyre asked families to call 877-348-8579, the...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued these patents to inventors in Nassau and Suffolk. Method of background downloading of information from a computer network Patent No. 6,769,019 Inventors: Ferguson; Xavier (16 Willits Rd., Glen Cove, NY 11542)...

The following firms were accused of making unlawful trades from 1999 to 2003 in more than 30 different stocks. The fines that each firm is paying both penalties and is disgorging, or giving up profits, they made on trades in question: · Bear Wagner...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged former Xerox chief executive Paul Allaire and five other ex-Xerox Corp. executives with civil securities fraud over accounting methods that the regulator said overstated earnings for the huge...

Motorola Inc.'s new cell phone chief is adamant that the company's snazzy new phones will be on store shelves in plenty of time for the holiday shopping season. "We won't have any delays," Ron Garriques said. "There are no component or supply issues."...

Edward Zander's closest adviser during his first six months as Motorola Inc.'s chief executive officer was a brainy guy who soaks up information like a detective working a case. Wherever Zander was, Richard Nottenburg was nearby. His business card read,...

Economic development leaders have scored several monumental victories in Lehigh Valley history. In 1881, they lured a giant silk company from New Jersey by building a factory for the company and naming it after the owner's wife, Adelaide. At the time, it...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has repeatedly promoted its efforts to develop Iraq's private-sector economy as an engine of job creation and hope for the country's beleaguered population and a model for an economically backward region. But if Iraq'...