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                      Friday, May 25, 2001
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- TOP STORY: Waldenbooks Not Borders' Golden Pond
  http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=415845

- NEWS TO GO: Redback, TiVo, and GE
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- HOT TOPICS: AMD, Intel, and Microsoft
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TOP STORY
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WALDENBOOKS NOT BORDERS' GOLDEN POND
Bookseller Borders Group (NYSE: BGP) said fiscal first-quarter
(ended April 29) earnings, before charges, were $0.01 per share
-- net income was essentially flat with last year's levels --
and in-line with estimates as companywide revenue rose 7.4% to
$729.9 million.

>>FULL STORY: http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=415849

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Broadband and optical networking equipment company Redback
Networks (Nasdaq: RBAK) said it would spend $57 million in stock
to buy privately held Merlin Systems, a company developing
optical equipment for metro networking. The deal is expected to
close in Q3.

Interactive television company TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) said
yesterday that fiscal Q1 subscribers topped the 200,000 mark as
revenues jumped sixfold and losses doubled to $1.20 a share,
three cents better than analysts had projected. The company also
earned patents for recording during playback, streaming, and the
ability to pause and scan through live television. Look for
further coverage of TiVo in Fool News & Commentary later today.
http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=415850

General Electric's (NYSE: GE) financing division and Goldman
Sachs (NYSE: GS) are taking on Buffett. The companies are
teaming up on an offer to take troubled commercial lender Finova
(NYSE: FNV) out of bankruptcy, and give it $7 billion in
funding. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A), in tandem
with Leucadia National (NYSE: LUK), in March offered $6 billion,
as reported by Todd Lebor.
http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=415851

TMP Worldwide (Nasdaq: TMPW), operator of the Monster.com job
search site, reportedly agreed to pay roughly $114 million to
buy unprofitable Jobline International AB and thus become the
leading provider of online hiring services in Sweden. Mike Trigg
took a look at TMP earlier this month.
http://www.lnksrv.com/m.asp?i=415852
http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=415853

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WHY I THINK AMD IS UNDERVALUED
An AMD Fool gives six reasons why this chip giant still looks
undervalued.
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PUTTING INTEL IN FOCUS
Intel Fools are recapping the company's past performance to help
gain perspective on what the future may hold.
http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=415855

MICROSOFT ENDURESd
Despite the onslaught from competitors, naysayers, and the
Department of Justice, Microsoft has tripled its market cap and
its cash reserves in the last four years. Can investors count on
that persistence in the years to come?
http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=415856

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