The January 2, 2001 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♑. It was the 1 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 25 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, January 2, 2026, 166 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, January 2, 2027, in 198 days. You have lived for 9,297 days, or about 223,148 hours, or about 13,388,907 minutes, or about 803,334,420 seconds.
2nd of January 2001 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on January 2, 2001
WEBMD ENDS CONTENT AGREEMENTS
Date: 03 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
WebMD Corp, Internet health information company that has lost more than $2 billion, will take a $275 million charge in fourth quarter to end two ventures with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp; News Corp will take back WebMD's 50 percent stake in Health Network cable channel, drop plans to promote WebMD overseas and reduce advertising and promotion services for Internet company to $205 million over 10 years from $700 million; WebMD will cancel plans to issue 8.3 million shares to News Corp (S)
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FORD WILL INCLUDE TIRES IN WARRANTY COVERAGE
Date: 03 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ford Motor Co, whose sales were hurt by recall of 6.5 million Bridgestone/Fireston tires in August, will include tires in its warranty coverage on 2001 model cars and light trucks in North America; move ends century-old arrangement under which tire makers took responsibility for tire warranties; General Motors began covering tires under its warranties in 1996 (S)
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UNITED RENTALS SEEKS A MAJORITY STAKE IN A COMPETITOR
Date: 03 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
United Rentals Inc, largest equipment-rental company in US, offers to buy majority stake in specialty competitor, Neff Corp, for $37 million in stock and $227 million in assumed debt (S)
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GLOBAL CROSSING ANNOUNCES SOME EXECUTIVE CHANGES
Date: 03 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Global Crossing Ltd names David Walsh president and sole chief operating officer and announces that Gary Cohen, who was co-chief operating officer with Walsh, will become president and chief operating officer of new unit, Global Crossing Solutions (S)
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MAKER OF SPORTING GOODS WILL SELL ITS BICYCLE BUSINESS
Date: 03 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Brunswick Corp sells its bicycle unit to Pacific Cycle LLC for $60 million (S)
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HALLIBURTON BUYS ONLINE UNIT OF NORWEGIAN OIL COMPANY
Date: 03 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Halliburton Co agrees to acquire Petrobank, online information unit of Petroleum Geo-Services, Halliburton competitor based in Oslo, for $179 million (S)
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THREE SOFTWARE MAKERS ANNOUNCE LAYOFFS TO CUT COSTS
Date: 03 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pegasystems Inc will eliminate 75 jobs, or 13 percent, of its work force; Viador Inc will cut 87 jobs, or 36 percent of work force; CommTouch Software Ltd will shut its electronic-commerce and small-business e-mail services units, resulting in reduction of its work force by one-fifth in 2001 (S)
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SHARES PLUNGE AFTER DOT-COM SEEKS PROTECTION
Date: 03 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
LetsBuyIt.com NV, Internet company that was granted temporary bankruptcy court protection from creditors in Netherlands just before new year, sees its stock plunge by more than half when trading resumes, closing at 0.54 euro (S)
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SEMICONDUCTOR SALES
Date: 03 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dataquest says global semiconductor sales rose 31 percent in 2000, failing to reach earlier estimate of 37 percent gain; says worldwide semiconductor market reached $221.1 billion in 2000, compared with $169 billion a year earlier (S)
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WIDER LOSSES AT SOFTWARE FIRM
Date: 03 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Intershop Communications, maker of Internet software, expects to report surprisingly wide loss of 32 million euros ($30 million) in fourth quarter because sales were little more than half what company forecast in October; graph (S)
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