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...there's the vertical impact, which refers to the company's expansion into all parts of the live-music industry, from managing artists to selling beer and hot dogs at venues. Rivals worry that the merged company's far-reaching and powerful tentacles will favor the company's own acts, venues and promotion company and shut out competing concert halls, managers and promoters. "They'll be the concert promoter, the ticketing company, the merchandise company, the agent, the manager - they'll be everything," said Jerry Mickelson, co-owner of concert promoter Jam Productions. "It would be one-stop shopping. What...
...Pascrell, a New Jersey Democrat who demanded congressional hearings into the matter. "Given Ticketmaster's recent mishandling of Bruce Springsteen's tour and other shows, it is clear that this company's questionable business practices warrant sharper scrutiny." Earlier this week, the Congressman introduced a bill, named the Boss Act, that calls for ticketing companies to disclose how many tickets are being withheld in primary public ticket sales and a 48-hour waiting period before tickets can be sold in the secondary market, among other things...
Wendy Kopp didn't sit back and say, "How can I find something that will channel my passion?" She built something. The ultimate entrepreneurial act is creating a movement. Wendy Kopp is on a 50-year mission to transform education in this country. And she's doing it by creating an army of people who have been in classrooms, who can say, "I know firsthand what the problems are." She's demonstrating the idea that entrepreneurship is about an idea more than just an organization...
Hence Greenpeace's four-year-long campaign to pressure paper companies like Kimberly-Clark - which makes Kleenex, Scott and Cottonelle, among other brands - to stop cutting down virgin forests. Says Lindsey Allen, Greenpeace's forest campaigner: "We know it's possible to act differently...
...known for his hard standpoint on the issue of Kashmir, was quick to seize on the incident to mobilize protesters for his cause. He was arrested along with other key voices in the movement, most of whom have since been detained under a tough law called the Public Safety Act and shifted to jails outside the Valley. Several hundred average "troublemakers" have also been put behind the bars in the much-criticized sweep by police. Kashmir's chief minister Omar Abdullah has defended the action. "They took advantage of the tragic Shopian incident and plunged people into further misery...