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...Best Dotcom Survivor With the simplest of business models - matching buyers to sellers and taking a percentage of each completed sale - the online auction powerhouse eBay rode out the wave of antitech sentiment that drowned many other former stars. The company has grabbed about 90% of the online consumer auction market. Almost 38 million registered users can't be wrong...
THAT'S NO SMALL VALUE During the tech boom, small-cap value funds were about as exciting as coin collecting. Their boring, old-world holdings--industrials, retail and the like--remain the "antitech," but these days that's a plus: low p/e ratios, slow growth and sane market caps. Now that big is bad and growth is yesterday's (or tomorrow's) news, small caps will provide some shelter from the tech storm...
...latest examples of the utile are handsomely represented. The dark, roughtextured pottery of Karen Karnes is a reminder of why crafts appealed so deeply and directly in the antitech 1960s. An outsize salad bowl, meticulously turned from a single chunk of California black walnut by Bob Stocksdale, is notable for its revelation of the wood's grain. A fiddleback, hard-rock-maple- and-ebony rocking chair, a fortunate meeting of Copenhagen and Big Sur by California Master Craftsman Sam Maloof, invites the viewer to experience the best of contemporary artifacts while sitting down in comfort. Maloof, 70, bristles...
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