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Still, the hint of a deal with Ford was enough to pull DaimlerChrysler closer to Nissan, and the German-American auto giant may still step in to save the Japanese. Even before CEO Juergen Schrempp inked a deal to acquire Chrysler Corp. for $37 billion last May, his Stuttgart brain trust was urging him to buy a controlling stake in Nissan Diesel. That would give Daimler, the world's largest commercial-truck producer, a solid foothold in Asia...
JAMES L. MARCIANO '88 LOVES TO TALK BUSINESS. But then, business has been very, very good to him. Marciano is the CEO of Up-Set, a New York Internet firm that runs Refer-it (www.refer-it.com), the self-proclaimed "premiere search engine for revenue-sharing programs." And that's only his cash-cow; Up-Set has also designed i-Site, bringing the blind community, and Marciano's baby, OurSquare (www.oursquare.com), an online community for Ivy League alums that boasts such famous members as Jordan's Queen Noor...
President Clinton, CEO of the nation and Commander in Chief of the armed forces, has defiled both his positions. The only honorable thing to do would have been to resign. But history will ensure that justice will be done. HENRY M. GIUDICE Berlin...
...Internet is changing the way musicians sell their work and, in doing so, broadening the range of music that consumers get to hear. Says Al Teller, former CEO of MCA Music Group who now heads Atomic Pop, a new company that will sell downloadable music on the Web: "What the Web offers is an opportunity for the artist to go directly to the consumer." Musicians and entrepreneurs are exploring new ways of putting the technology to use. DJ Spooky recently featured his music on a deejay website that encouraged users to remix his work and e-mail the new creations...
...York ad giant was not so much interested in PMK's tidy profit margin--"We're just chump change to them," says LESLEE DART, one of PMK's three partners -as in its vast warehouse of stars. "Celebrity icons are brands," says JOHN DOONER, McCann-Erickson's CEO, "and there may be opportunities to work with like-minded brands in the corporate world." Such work will probably be more subtle than, say, SEAN PENN doing a Coke commercial. "We're not in the advertising business; we're in the publicity business," notes PMK partner PAT KINGSLEY (the third PMK pooh...