New York Times

Beyond the timing of any short-term recovery, however, is the longer-term question about the future of information technology: Is it still a growth industry?

10:42:07 PM    

New York Times by Tracie Rozhon

In the heart of Manhattan's garment district, Denise White slides on a pair of white latex gloves and starts opening the brown cardboard boxes that Federal Express has just dropped off at her company, Bernardo Fashions. The shipment -- from China -- is a week late.

A few blocks away, Cynthia Rowley, a fashion designer with a $22 million business, has been waiting since April 30 for 40 cartons of summer clothes, due from Asia, that will be sent on to waiting stores.

10:24:11 PM    

BusinessWeek:

From kindergarten to graduate school, boys are fast becoming the second sex. "Girls are on a tear through the educational system," says Thomas G. Mortenson, a senior scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education in Washington. "In the past 30 years, nearly every inch of educational progress has gone to them."

7:16:07 PM    

BusinessWeek

Wall Street has taken a battering, unemployment is up, and the economy continues its struggle to sustain even modest expansion. But there is one area where growth is undeniable: the burgeoning number of women-owned businesses.

7:11:08 PM    

Michelle Wie, 13, Gets Spot in Men's Tourney

San Jose Mercury News:

Teenager Michelle Wie has accepted a sponsor's exemption to play in the Boise Open on the Nationwide Tour, becoming the first female golfer to compete on the PGA Tour's developmental circuit. The event is Sept. 18-21.

Wie, a 13-year-old eighth-grader in Honolulu who hits the ball farther than some PGA Tour players, will be the third female player this year to go head-to-head with the men.

6:58:22 PM    

San Jose Mercury News

Siebel Systems will hold a live, in-person shareholders meeting after all.

One day after the San Mateo software maker took heavy fire for announcing that it would hold this year's annual shareholders meeting only in cyberspace, Siebel reversed itself Thursday and said it will allow stockholders to show up at the Marriott Hotel in San Mateo, where the Webcast will be broadcast.

6:49:55 PM    

San Jose Mercury News by Lisa M. Krieger:

It's not the Fountain of Youth, but it is intriguing: a class of molecules that researchers have discovered prolongs life and prevents a debilitating age-related illness.

These findings, announced by a team of University of California-San Francisco scientists in today's issue of the journal Science, are thus far confined to a lowly worm found in compost heaps everywhere.

6:45:01 PM    

New York Times by John R. Quain

America Online says 195 million people use its instant messaging service, their keystrokes generating more than 1.6 billion messages a day. For those users, instant messaging - or IM - has become an intrinsic part of their social fabric.

"On the phone, you can only talk to one person at a time,'' Ms. Gittleson, a 15 year old in Colts Neck, NJ said. "Online, you can talk to a dozen people at once."

6:40:08 PM    

Motley Fool

If there's one thing Yahoo!'s just-released 10-Q makes clear, it's that Overture Services is very, very important to its well-being. At the same time, Overture's success could be harmful to its own health.

1:51:59 PM    

Financial Times by Peronet Despeignes in Washington:

Wholesale prices in the US fell in April at the fastest pace on record while industrial output fell for the second consecutive month, according to official figures. The reports, which were two of several released on Thursday, appeared likely to enflame debate about the risks of deflation and economic slowdown.

10:47:46 AM