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Yahoo and AOL have their own voice-over-instant message services. All these deals have generated as much confusion as excitement. Is eBay just trying to acquire Skype's 54 million users? Maybe GoogleTalk will let you click to dial a phone number of someone you've just Googled. Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Did eBay Bid on Skype? | 9/14/2005 | See Source »

"It's one of our most profitable operations," says Sawiris, 50, sprawled on a leather chair in Orascom Telecom's ornate Paris office. "I take a lot of risks, but calculated risks." Now Sawiris stands on the edge of his biggest gamble, and it's not in an unstable country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq Is Easy Next to Italy | 8/25/2005 | See Source »

Since the internet was born, there has been a tug-of-war between aggregating information and finding ways to navigate through it. Two of the great navigation milestones were the Web browser and the search engine. Now, with the galloping growth of blogs (some 80,000 new blogs are created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taming the Wild Web | 8/14/2005 | See Source »

Sometimes CNOOC's high-paid bankers were no more helpful than its Beltway advisers. Two principal lines of attack for Chevron's allies were that the CNOOC bid was effectively subsidized by sweetheart loans from the government, and that there was no "level playing field"?that is to say, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunset for a Deal | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

Earning Their Stripes Germany's Adidas has been a fixture on the sporting scene ever since founder Adi Dassler invented spiked shoes for track-and-field in the 1920s. But when it comes to making sneakers for fashion and leisure, Adidas has lagged far behind Nike, the world's leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

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