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...deal on a 1993 Dom Perignon ($80) may also pick up a pair of Waterford goblets for $60. Exploiting such buying patterns has helped Costco to push its average checkout ticket to $109, compared with $60 to $80 at competing warehouse clubs, according to Bill Dreher, a senior retail analyst at W.R. Hambrecht...
Today, IDC analyst Charles Kolodgy says, encryption is the "plankton" of the Internet: ubiquitous, almost invisible and indispensable. An encryption program that Netscape released for free in 1994 secured $53 billion in online commerce in the first three quarters of this year. As the Internet weaves its way into more devices, so does encryption technology. Sony's PlayStation 2 consoles include encryption software that allows gamers to communicate securely with their online playmates. TiVo television-recording systems receive encrypted software updates without the owner's even realizing...
...this, after all, is the life she bargained for. Two and a half years ago, Chen was a newly minted college grad just entering the working-stiff world as a credit analyst in the Hong Kong branch of a foreign bank. That was before she decided that her brother, teen idol Edison Chen, was having way more fun than she was. Meetings were held, a contract was signed?and Chen popped out of the Hong Kong star-making microwave like a sugar-coated pineapple bun. Her first single, Future Tense, was released to local radio stations last month...
...career armed with little more than some hip-hop Canto-pop tunes and a lust-inducing smile. Although she had blossomed attractively herself, Chen remained a bystander, attending university in Canada, earning a bachelor's degree in commerce and business administration. She accepted a job as a credit analyst at BNP Paribas in Hong Kong after graduation...
...money from complacent banks to profitless companies would be cut off, giving these companies no choice but to shut down and throw their workers out on the street. "Companies are going to go under and Japan offers no support for the unemployed," frets Minoru Morita, a prominent political analyst. Already, LDP politicians and Tokyo bankers are circulating a list of 51 companies presumed likely to meet with peril under the plan?including retailer Mitsukoshi, video gamemaker Sega and trading outfit Nissho Iwai, plus a slew of construction, heavy machinery and real estate companies. Goldman Sachs estimates that...