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...hate to admit to reading AOL News, but recently, a rather controversial article popped up in its circulating headlines. Daniel Radcliffe—the precocious, Elijah Wood look-alike who plays the title role in the Harry Potter movies—will be starring in a London production of “Equus” this month. The play is famous for its combination of gruesome animal violence and sexual overtones—and its full-frontal nude scene. Publicity photos for the play feature half-naked shots of Radcliffe, now 17, sporting chiseled abs and bronzer, sensually stroking...
Despite its recent stock stumbles, the portal remains a diversified giant. Its sites draw more users than AOL's or Microsoft's. Among 18-to-34-year-olds, Myspace and YouTube had a combined 32 million unique visitors in December; Yahoo! had 39 million. And Yahoo!'s e-mail remains tops with 250 million users worldwide. The company is either first or second in 17 Web categories, from e-mail to photos. It also landed a deal with eBay to sell ads on the company's domestic site and engineered a partnership to sell ad space for 215 newspapers...
Panama may not be Semel's last bullet. Analysts have suggested Yahoo! could benefit from merging with AOL, a division of Time Warner (TIME's parent), or a linkup with Microsoft, which lags in search. Either deal would help Yahoo! take on Google more aggressively. One thing that won't change: the quirky Yahoo! culture. Early on, founders Jerry Yang and David Filo set up a free cappuccino bar for employees and have followed up with annual company-wide gifts, ranging from MP3 players to sleeping bags. Google has topped the coffee bar with free meals and a host...
...view cameras for parking assistance. Nor are the cars being designed with drab proleterian styling. The highly regarded Italian design shop Pininfarina produced the interior and exterior styling of the Liebao line. And lest you think Americans won't buy a Chinese car, consider this: according to an AP AOL-Autos poll conducted last month, 70% of Americans under age 35 said they'd consider a Chinese car (overall, respondents to the poll were evenly split...
...room it’s awful,” Gregory D. Bybee ’07 said in a phone interview from his Winthrop dorm—just moments after he lost his wireless connection to AOL Instant Messenger...