Teleport seeks Baltimore market
Teleport Communications Group, a Staten Island, N.Y., company, has asked the state Public Service Commission for permission to provide local phone service for Baltimore-area businesses.
Larry Bugden, vice president and general manager of TCG's Baltimore office, said the company seeks to offer businesses local telephone and telecommunications services beginning in the Baltimore area, then branch out through the state.
Two other companies, MCI Communications and MFS Communications Co. Inc., of Omaha, Neb., also have applied with the PSC for authority to compete with Bell Atlantic Corp.
RCG, partner are first choice
A joint venture of two architecture firms, Ballenger of Philadelphia and RCG Inc. of Baltimore, is the state's first choice to design a $28 million addition to the University of Maryland's School of Nursing, near the southeast corner of Lombard and Penn streets in West Baltimore.
The group scored higher than three other finalists, RTKL Associates, Design Collective with HKS Inc., and Einhorn Yaffee Prescott with Mitchell Giurgola.
IBM, Apple reach design pact
International Business Machines Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. will unveil on Monday an agreement to create a basic computer design capable of running both companies' software.
But six months of negotiations produced an agreement most notable for what's missing: no IBM equity investment in Apple, and far less than a full-blown technology partnership, people familiar with the talks said.
FTC gives approval to Eli Lilly
The Federal Trade Commission gave conditional approval yesterday to Eli Lilly & Co.'s $4 billion purchase of PCS Health Systems, the nation's biggest prescription drug benefit company, and made clear that it would keep similar deals under surveillance for possible antitrust violations.
In a consent order, Lilly agreed to keep the PCS system, which it is buying from McKesson Corp. of San Francisco, open to drugs made by competitors. Lilly will also build a "fire wall" to prevent it from competing unfairly by obtaining pricing information submitted to PCS by other drug makers.
Strikers, newspapers to meet
Managers and striking workers at San Francisco's two main daily newspapers agreed yesterday to resume negotiations this morning, after Mayor Frank Jordan intervened.
Some 2,600 workers at the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner went on strike Tuesday night after talks on a new labor contract broke down.
The owners have continued to produce the newspapers.