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...developed a safebox for the keys that also speeds up decryption. "It's kind of a Mission: Impossible thing," Alex quips. Of course, smart technology doesn't ensure profits--and Ncipher hasn't turned one yet. But in October 2000, it launched one of the last IPOs of the boom, raising $173 million and valuing the firm at $663 million. Although it returned most of the money to shareholders and its market cap has fallen to $54 million, it is rich enough to make acquisitions. Losses narrowed 15% last year, to $12.6 million, and sales climbed 21% last quarter. Ncipher...
...fast enough to deliver movies without any hiccups, and to send songs in seconds rather than minutes. Scaglia and his company, e.Biscom, are funneling feature films and sitcoms--plus conventional Web and phone services--to PCs and TVs in six major Italian cities. Born during the late-'90s Internet boom, e.Biscom is on a steady growth path in a cooled-down economy. "The idea is to create a network with no bandwidth limitation," says Scaglia...
...1970s and '80s, benefiting from close ties with then Prime Minister Turgut Özal, who in effect brought capitalism to the country. Cem Uzan's initial enterprise was to launch Turkey's first private TV channel, Star TV, together with Özal's son, Ahmet, in 1989. The privatization boom of the 1990s allowed the Uzans to expand into other media and utilities - and to build the country's second-largest mobile-phone carrier, Telsim. Family assets, according to Forbes magazine, now exceed $1.3 billion. And Cem Uzan heads the country's second-most popular political grouping, the Youth Party...
...that's really changed since 9/11. Now they want to bring the whole family," says Suzanne Holbrook, executive spa director at the newly opened Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Orlando, Fla., where the spa offers acne-treatment facials, fizzing salt manicures and other teencentric services. "There's been a real boom, and it's being felt throughout the hotel industry." Over Memorial Day weekend, the San Antonio Hyatt Regency opened SPAhhhT after being deluged by requests from parents. Since then, nearly 700 kids have visited, indulging in 25-minute facials at $40 a session and henna tattoos ranging from...
...Internet boom has not missed Dean. Rather, it has handed him a bonanza of cash and buzz that would make most 1990s dotcom veterans--and politicians--weep. In the past three months, it was revealed last week, Dean has raised $7.5 million, $1.5 million more than his nearest Democratic rival, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, nudging Dean into the top tier of Democratic candidates. Two-thirds of all Dean contributions were made online. And as often happens in politics, bucks begat the Big Mo. A poll in the first caucus state, Iowa, released last week put Dean in second place...