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While Edelman said he probably wouldn’t buy anything from Amazon with his prize money, he said he hopes publishing his work will benefit the internet company and others like...
...late fee for a copy of Apollo 13 back in 1998. "If I'd returned it on time," he says, "we wouldn't be here today." Now Jupiter Media Metrix rates Netflix.com as one of the 10 busiest e-commerce sites, a list that also includes eBay and Amazon. Every day 82,000 DVDs roll through the conveyor belts of Netflix's headquarters in Los Gatos, Calif., and its hubs in Boston and Los Angeles. Last week, as Hastings filed with the sec to take his company public and dreamed of raising a cool $115 million, there was only...
Where to pick it up: Amazon and the rest...
...billion for institutional investors at First Quadrant L.P. in Pasadena, Calif. "The more money that companies retain to invest in the future, the worse their future turns out to be." Consider that Priceline wrote off $67 million in 2000, partly from its goofy venture into groceries and gasoline, while Amazon incinerated $233 million by "investing" in dotbombs like Webvan and Ashford.com Last year, jds Uniphase booked the biggest loss ever recorded--$56 billion--as it wrote off the costs of its overpriced acquisitions...
...DIED. PETER BLAKE, 53, a two-time America's Cup winner and New Zealand sailing hero, shot by masked pirates who raided his 40-m yacht on the Amazon; near Macapa, Brazil. A U.N. goodwill ambassador, Blake was on a worldwide expedition to monitor global warming and pollution. He won the Jules Verne Trophy in 1994 for sailing a catamaran nonstop around the globe in record time. DIED. JUAN JOSE ARREOLA, 83, a fiercely nationalist Mexican author who wrote 16 books of short stories and won Mexico's distinguished National Linguistics and Literature Prize in 1976; in Mexico City. Arreola...