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...side trying to outmaneuver the other, and in the twists and turns of the plot, not in whether the plot is realistic. At least the technology used by each side actually exists (there’s even a crack about how one fancy gadget can probably be found on Amazon...
...case of Quattrone, known for leading IPOs for Amazon and Netscape during the dot-com boom, the appeals court said the trial judge erred by instructing jurors that Quattrone did not have to intend or knowingly commit a crime when telling subordinates via e-mail to "clean up" their files during a government investigation of Quattrone's former investment firm. The government argued that Quattrone was e-mailing specifically about subpoenaed documents. The defense said he wasn't. The trial judge told the jury it didn't matter...
WHAT'S BEING BOUGHT AND SOLD? The most popular consumer goods on eBay are designer handbags, shoes and accessories, and high-end crystal, furniture, art and electronics. There are other auction sites too. Amazon has a cooperative marketplace with a store-within-a-store concept, like a Louis Vuitton boutique in Bloomingdale's. Google just launched Base, which brings buyers and sellers together through advertising. Then there are niche players like [my company] portero.com for luxury goods...
...soaring profits. After all, a big component of Google’s success is that Verizon and Comcast are willing to deliver all of Google’s ads to their millions of subscribers. Verizon, among others, has proposed charging tariffs on sites like Google and Amazon since these sites use a lot of Verizon’s bandwidth for their own profit.And early in February, Yahoo and AOL announced—ostensibly to protect their users from spam—that they would start offering an inexpensive (half a cent or so per message) exemption from spam filtering...
...CANDICE MILLARD When he felt a little down, nothing picked Theodore Roosevelt up like a near suicidal adventure. In 1914, smarting from having lost the presidency to Woodrow Wilson, he undertook the descent of the scarily named Rio da Dúvida, the River of Doubt, an unmapped tributary of the Amazon. Millard charts the trip Roosevelt called his "last chance to be a boy," which was a calamity. The travelers were beset by piranhas; starvation; rapids; malaria; mutiny; Indians with poison-tipped arrows; and tiny Amazonian fish that attack the, um, loins. In the dark of the jungle, delirious with fever...