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...expanding abroad. But with U.S. customers on their backs in such industries as telecom, more start-ups like WaveSmith are finding their first foothold abroad, especially in Japan and Korea. Those countries haven't escaped the global tech collapse, but their governments and companies continue to spend, especially on broadband Internet access and third-generation wireless technology. But as always in global business, connections count...
Logan's first task will be to hire a new CEO for the online division; he will look not for a visionary but for a seasoned consumer-marketing executive. Besides attracting more subscribers and ads, AOL must craft a winning strategy for the broadband age--which will require sharing revenue with rival cable companies and giving consumers easy access to premium movies and music whenever they want...
...things to play or listen to. The idea is to marry the best of TV with the Web. And charge for it. RealNetworks, a Seattle-based streaming media software company, is among the first to aggregate content from different media sources and apply the pay-TV model to broadband Internet, according to Jupiter Media Metrix, a consultancy specializing in Internet analysis and measurement. Though most Internet content is likely to remain free, providers of premium audio and video say they'll put their programming on the Net only when they see the money. "People are prepared to pay for multichannel...
That doesn't mean they haven't caught anything. Malone has already taken advantage of the depressed market, pouring in much-needed funds to gain effective control over United GlobalCom, the leading international broadband provider, which has nearly 10 million cable subscribers scattered across the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, France, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. And although he has been stiff-armed so far, Malone watchers believe he may end up combining Telewest (whose bonds he is trying to buy up) with NTL to form one British cable provider, with 4.7 million subscribers, that could compete with Rupert Murdoch's popular British...
...founded Vision Cable in 1971 and continued to serve as chair until its sale in 1981—although he has continued to be deeply involved in the industry, serving on the board of Insight Communications Company, Inc. since 1985, as a director of a broadband communications company, as well as biotech and other private firms...