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...CONVICTED. FRANK QUATTRONE, 48, star investment banker who shepherded some of the hottest companies of the dotcom stock boom to the public market and made $120 million in 2000 at Credit Suisse First Boston; of obstructing justice and witness tampering; in New York City. His first trial ended in a hung jury...
...MANFRED SCHOENI, 58, Hong Kong-based art dealer who championed contemporary Chinese artists, including the country's Pop Art painters; of stab wounds apparently inflicted during a robbery; on Boracay Island, the Philippines. Schoeni, who owned two Hong Kong galleries and a South African vineyard, helped create the 1990s boom in mainland...
...Microsoft began its 30th year last month, investors wondered whether it's a little long in the tooth. "It's clear that Microsoft doesn't see itself as a high-growth company anymore," says Matt Rosoff, a financial analyst with Directions on Microsoft, based in Kirkland, Wash. "The boom days are over." Last year Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer started giving employees stock grants instead of stock options--a sure sign that the share price is flatlining. Ballmer okayed a minuscule dividend for shareholders, but he has resisted calls to let them dip any further into the $56 billion cookie...
Microsoft as Turtle? The software behemoth is still on top, but some think the boom days are over...
...this? Clinton did not create any jobs. Bill Gates did. Andy Grove did. Jeff Bezos did. In fact, they created an industry. The '90s were a decade when the silicon chip met the "peace dividend"--billions saved by the ending of the cold war--and gave us an economic boom. Clinton deserves credit for not getting in the way. He fulfilled the economic Hippocratic oath: first do no harm. Not screwing up a boom going on around you, however, is not the same as job creation...