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...pioneer of pan-European outlet shopping," says Clive Minihan, director of the Credo Group, a developer of retail and new-media business in London. Pioneering has paid off. BAA McArthurGlen has grown from scratch to a sizable (revenues of $472.3 million in the fiscal year ending March 31) behemoth that must now contend with upstart rivals trying to match its accomplishments...
...Russian ship, the Kruzenshtern, was largest vessel of the entire procession. A behemoth at 376 feet, the Kruzenshtern is the second-longest tall ship in the world...
...Microsoft, writhing in the clutches of the courts. That could be about to change, as the Internet giant finds itself under the microscopes of the ounce-of-prevention trustbusters over its purchase of Time Warner. And the feds are giving Steve Case some hints as to how a tech behemoth should act. Lesson 1, according to Wednesday's Wall Street Journal: Instant Messaging, the real-time, buddy-listed way to chat online that's more popular with teenagers than 'N Sync and is widely expected to be next frontier of all things e-. AOL owns 90 percent...
...domination isn't very reassuring." AOL isn't a monopolist now, and AOL-Time Warner would be no more of a cable monopoly than Time Warner (corporate overlord of this site) has been. It's more a question of corporate character - what kind of behemoth would AOL-Time Warner be? How would it wield its immense clout? And to the wary eyes of Washington, AOL's fiercely proprietary instincts when it comes to IM is a bad omen. If Bill Gates and Steve Case were on speaking terms, Gates might have this to pass on: If you want...
...reason? Ostensibly because the $38 billion-a-year behemoth delivered some unexpected bad news--and Wall Street hates surprises--warning that its upcoming third-quarter earnings would fall 10% from the year before, instead of rising 7% as anticipated. For that transgression, Procter's shares were hammered, dropping $27 to $60 and shedding some $35 billion, or roughly a third of the company's market value. In the process, P&G helped drive down the already hurting Dow Jones industrial average 374 points...