Last updated:Friday, March 14, 1997, 8:30 a.m.
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The FTC gets it? It must be so. The Federal Trade Commission is opening public comment on the web over the proposed merger of Staples and Office Depot. Another first.

Online parody really pricks the inflated egos of the self-important, which is why it's so popular. Instead of laughing, some businesses sue.

A $100 million class-action suit was filed Thursday against America Online for racketeering, mail fraud and wire fraud, the latest in a series of attacks by frustrated consumers against the nation's largest online service. Earlier, AOL said the charges were groundless.

The New York Stock Exchanges is 205 years old, but "we have no God given right to make it to 207," a NYSE executive says, warning that trading will go global via the Net, and the trend to 24-hour, seven-days-a-week trading will accelerate.

Windows NT 5.0 will deliver 64-bit Very Large Memory (VLM) support for DEC's Alpha chip.

Modem mergers: Hayes Microcomputer is buying Cardinal Technologies.

Preserving the franchise? Netscape's Marc Andreessen says Microsoft's CDF push technology is unnecessary and will "wither on the vine."

Home PC sales should climb 15 percent in 1997, Computer Retail Week predicts.

Apple Computer has been through so many dark days in the past 18 months or so, it's hard to say if this is the worst, but later today, CEO Gil Amelio will announce layoffs aimed at making the Mac-maker smaller, and profitable. Check our special Apple page for the latest as the news develops.