'The Hoover's 50' for Week of January 22: Some Leaps and Bounds for High-Tech
Wednesday January 24 8:04am EST
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The top 10 in this week's Hoover's Top 50 saw some commotion. Motorola jumped to #5 from #16, probably propelled by last week's recent job cut announcement. Computer memory technology company Rambus climbed from #18 to #8. Current news on Rambus surrounds co-founder Mike Farmwald joining Benchmark Capital. eB2B Commerce made a mysterious quantum leap from #49 to #9. Research and development firm DEKA, headed by inventor Dean Kamen, and Pacific Century CyberWorks swapped places for spots #1 and #2.
The Hoover's 50 is a weekly list of the companies most often researched on the businessperson's portal Hoover's Online (www.hoovers.com) by more than 3 million regular users. Hoover's Online provides business information, tools and services to help people get their jobs done. The Top 50 list, accessed via powerize.com earch, is derived by tracking users' searches of more than 10,000 brand-name sources, including 2,400 newspapers, magazines, journals and newswires.
Touted for its promise to turn a profit in 2002 and reduce losses in 2001, Handspring debuted this week at #18. Handspring was also in the news after telecom equipment manufacturer QUALCOMM announced plans to sell 250,000 shares of the handheld computer maker. A popular company on the list, computer chip making leader Intel, jumped 13 places to #29.
The week's top 10 most researched companies: Pacific Century CyberWorks (1), DEKA (2), JDS Uniphase (3), Bio-Technology General (4), Motorola (5), Cisco Systems (6), FuelCell Energy (7), Rambus (8), eB2B Commerce (9) and Nokia (10).
The Hoover's 50 for Week of January 22, 2001
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