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There have been rumors for weeks that growth-obsessed Compaq was stalking Gateway. Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer has said he wants to more than double his company's revenues, to $40 billion, by the end of the decade. Compaq, an outstanding performer in a difficult-to-manage industry, amassed $4 billion in cash at the end of 1996 so Pfeiffer could go shopping. Earlier this year he talked with Micron Technology about buying its mail-order computer company, Micron Electronics. No sale...
...would be sweet revenge not only for Apple but also for Ellison, who feels about Microsoft--and most particularly about its CEO Bill Gates--the way Patton felt about Rommel. Gates' stock holdings, worth around $32 billion, dwarf Ellison's estimated $7 billion. Ellison, however, insists the fight isn't personal. "I'm more interested in beating Microsoft than I am in beating Bill Gates," he says. "I obsess on the personal computer and the industry, and I would love to see the age of proprietary computers...
...have been the most expensive pizza-delivery system ever invented. Last week media giant Time Warner (TIME's parent company) announced that it was pulling the plug on its ambitious two-way cable-TV project, the Full Service Network, launched in Orlando, Fla., in 1994. At that time then ceo Gerald Levin predicted FSN would be "a medium for providing people with unprecedented access to information and entertainment." With just a remote, subscribers could scan countless TV channels, bring up movies on demand, shop at home or order a pizza...
Like so many larger-than-life figures, Halmi is prone to hyperbole, inflating his production tabs in talks to the press. (He quoted The Odyssey's bill at $43 million.) "All his numbers are false," jokes Halmi's son, Robert Jr., the CEO of Hallmark Entertainment. "He likes to tell people things cost a lot more money than they really...
PRACTICING WHAT THEY PREACH On the next level is what marketing expert Carol Cone, CEO of Cone Communications, calls "passion branders." They are companies with a long-term commitment to a cause. They not only raise money but also walk the walk of deeply interested parties. If they sponsor environmental awareness, you can be sure they also recycle. McDonald's, for example, has a clear interest in kids and local communities. Its Ronald McDonald House for the families of seriously ill children is one of the country's best-known charitable...