Hewlett-Packard separately announced yesterday a consolidation of various creative and media assignments.

The Midlantic Corporation and the C&S/Sovran Corporation announced separately yesterday that they were having growing problems with defaulted commercial real estate loans.

The Justice Department separately announced two promotions within the antitrust division, after the departure on Friday of Joel I. Klein, who headed the division.

Two groups of computer and telecommunications companies announced separately yesterday that they planned to begin work on standardizing how computers will talk to each other on the future information superhighway.

Conventions scheduled to be held in Arizona were canceled, and performer Stevie Wonder and writer Harlan Ellison separately announced that they would boycott the state.

Recently, both the Maxell Corporation and 3M separately announced the imminent availability of 2-megabyte, or 2,000K, floppies.

In addition, Sprint announced separately that it would make the application available from its Vision and Power Vision homepages, preloaded onto some new Sprint phones.

Bell Atlantic and Nynex announced separately that the Federal Communications Commission had made a new request for voluminous documents relating to their $22 billion combination.

NEC and Hitachi separately announced the world's first one-gigabit DRAM at the same conference two years ago.

ON Wednesday, Genentech Inc. and the Zymogenetics Corporation separately announced one of the most significant discoveries ever in biotechnology.