By Will Sturgeon, 27 September 2000 09:15
NEWS The Financial Times and Wall Street Journal Europe both give front page coverage to the trials and tribulations of software giant Microsoft who has received its latest reprieve of sorts in its US antitrust case. Microsoft has won an appeal to have its case heard in a lower court - effectively giving it a further two stays of execution after the initial ruling to split up the company. The US department of justice wanted the hearing to take place in the Supreme Court in search of a final resolution to the trial. However, Microsoft has now won the right to have its say in the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and has ensured that any resolution is still a way off... While the demonstrations outside the IMF meeting in Prague occupy the more prominent pages of this morning's papers the Independent reports that Chancellor Gordon Brown has used the platform to herald the effects on the UK economy of a booming technology sector. This is nothing new really but after such a public declaration it will be interesting to see if a government, often accused of being slow to react to developments in the high-tech sector, will now become more pro-active in ensuring its continued growth... Vodafone has now joined the ranks of mobile phone operators seeking to bring on board content providers with news in the Guardian that the company has created a £100m venture capital fund for strategic investment in internet start-ups. By taking a stake in the start-ups Vodafone Ventures will benefit from the economic returns on its investment and also any content, services and software being developed, for deployment in its own 3G technologies..
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