21.   In announcing their alliance, the two exchanges said they planned to create a company that would eventually establish a single electronic trading system for major stocks across Europe.

22.   In February, Polaroid announced an alliance with PictureWorks Technology, a software company, to develop more Internet-related products.

23.   In November, Olivetti announced an alliance with France Telecom to join a pre-existing Olivetti-Bell Atlantic International venture providing data transmission services.

24.   In October, EMC and Dell announced an alliance that so far has focused on sales cooperation and the joint creation of storage software.

25.   In September, it announced an alliance with IBM for its most sophisticated data storage product.

26.   It also announced an alliance with Wireless Knowledge, a company backed by Microsoft and Qualcomm, which hopes to help business users receive company services.

27.   Intertainer and Akamai Technologies plan to announce an alliance Monday to deliver video-on-demand to the computers of consumers with high-speed Internet connections.

28.   It also says it expects to announce an alliance in pharmaceuticals by the end of this year.

29.   It also says it expects to announce an alliance in pharmaceuticals by the end of the year.

30.   It recently announced alliances with Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems to provide computer-related services to its clients.