Those of a technical bent sent some billet-doux rather than poison-pen dispatches last week. Among the love letters were:
A full-scale dog and pony show promoting more jobs in the suburbs. 3Com Corp., the computer network heavyweight that snatched Skokie-based U.S. Robotics in a merger earlier this year and eliminated some 800 jobs, said it would sort of make amends. A $256 million expansion and renovation at its Rolling Meadows plant will add at least 1,000 employees.
Ameritech Corp. let go of some pocket change to buy the 24 Chicago-area stores of Triangle Stereo Inc., doubling its outlets here. The focus will be on wireless and paging products.
While searching for a new chief executive, Zenith Electronics Corp. plunged into a new market. Zenith will start making digital video disc players to accommodate a new kind of disc.
One long-running cyberspace rumor finally came true. In a complicated deal with H&R Block Inc. and WorldCom Inc., America Online Inc. will wind up with the 2.6 million customers of archrival on-line service CompuServe.
