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By Compiled from Times wires

© St. Petersburg Times, published August 5, 2000

QWEST PLANS JOB CUTS: Qwest Communications Corp., the new owner of US West, said it will eliminate 2,000 to 4,000 jobs throughout its 14-state region by year's end. US West had about 65,000 employees before its merger with Qwest, which had about 71,000 employees. Qwest has said repeatedly that most of the coming cuts will come at the corporate level rather than in operations. Qwest shares closed at $49.38, up $2.81.

WEB SITE ORDERED TO RELEASE INFORMATION: A Yahoo Inc. subsidiary must turn over to Apple Computer Inc. personal information on a customer who allegedly posted Apple trade secrets on the Internet. Superior Court Judge Gregory H. Ward on Thursday issued a subpoena to Yahoo's GeoCities site to turn over records of a member using the computer pseudonym "worker bee." Apple contends "worker bee" posted information and pictures of its new computer mouse and dual-processor PowerMacs ahead of their introduction at last month's MacWorld trade show.

GATEWAY EXPANDS TRADE-IN PROGRAM: In an industry first, Gateway Inc. is now offering to credit customer trade-ins of competitors' PCs toward the purchase of one of its new systems. Gateway said it will offer consumers and businesses the fair-market trade-in value of any Pentium processor-class desktop computers running at 75 megahertz or higher. By Sept. 30, the company will extend the program to all PCs. Like some other manufacturers, Gateway has long accepted its own PCs as trade-ins toward new machines.

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