Andrew Zajac

News of the America Online Inc. takeover of Time Warner Inc. should spark a fresh round of mergers between rich, young Internet firms and old-line media companies, as businesses in...

Taking aim at trucking and busing operations that churned out poorly trained drivers, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White on Tuesday tightened requirements for so-called third-party testing by private companies....

Lions! Tigers! Sword swallowers! Bareback-riding bearded ladies! Blindfolded laptop jugglers! . . . oops, sorry. Wrong spectacle. What we meant to say is the Summer Internet World '99 sets up...

Casting doubt on the future of one of the country's largest reproductive-service chains and its pioneering chairman, Dr. Norbert Gleicher, Chicago-based GynCor Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection....

Another week, another Internet IPO. This time it's Quotesmith.com, of southwest suburban Darien, heading into the market. The company filed its Securities and Exchange Commission registration statement, seeking $80 million,...

The Technopolis Evanston Task Force (www.technopolisevanston.org) has selected The Performance Group, Cisco Systems Inc., Siemens Building Technologies and NEC to develop a plan to wire Evanston for high-speed Internet access,...

Beefing up its Web presence, Lincolnshire-based W.W. Grainger Inc. has snagged a spot on Netscape Communications Corp.'s heavily-traveled Netcenter portal for a pair of product-ordering sites. www.grainger.com and www.OrderZone.com. The...

The holiday season tends to focus attention on consumer gadgetry, but at year's end three Chicagoland technology firms find themselves with heightened profiles for important computer products for the corporate...

How big is the Microsoft trial? Big enough for special procedures like advance sign-up and badges for reporters to enter the courtroom. In some cases, court officials forced two news...

Snippets from a reporter's notebook after the first week of the Microsoft Corp. antitrust trial in Washington, D.C: How heavy is the spin in the Microsoft trial? So heavy that...