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...labeled the move another attempt by Gates to paint himself as a more sympathetic character in Microsoft's ongoing antitrust litigation. The same accusations were made earlier this month when Gates stepped down as Microsoft's CEO, saying he wanted to focus more on his family. And, because a chunk of the Gates Foundation grants go to wiring libraries in poor communities to use the Internet, some conspiracy theorists have gone as far as branding this as a ploy to introduce Microsoft products to a population that can't otherwise afford them...
...online service, msn, that competes with AOL. Microsoft and AOL Time Warner will have competing investments in the cable industry. On yet another hand, Microsoft and Time Warner are co-investors in a high-speed cable-Internet connection business called Roadrunner. On a fourth hand, Microsoft owns a chunk of AT&T, which owns a chunk of Time Warner, which means that after the merger, Microsoft will own a chunk...
There is another sizable chunk of the holiday market still left to be served--the procrastinators. E-commerce traffic began to taper off in mid-December as shoppers worried that online deliveries wouldn't arrive on time. Who could blame them? Wal-Mart and others warned Web shoppers as early as Dec. 12 that they couldn't guarantee delivery by Dec. 25. But with overnight delivery, Weiner says, "I don't see any reason why the Net couldn't serve that last-minute shopper." Better get cracking on that back end. --With reporting by Jacqueline Savaiano/Los Angeles
...choose between going on the offensive in the parts of the country where he's trailing or to defend the parts where he's doing well. The March 7 vote includes most of New England, where the ex-senator has some of his strongest support, and a large chunk of the Midwest, a Gore stronghold. Based on Iowa and New Hampshire, the Bradley camp will have to decide whether their man should spend his scarce time shaking hands in Rhode Island and Massachusetts or making up ground by kissing babies in Ohio and Missouri...
There's a moment worth waiting for during every Democratic presidential debate these days--the moment when Bill Bradley's feelings for Al Gore bob into view like a big chunk of ice on a cold gray sea. "Maybe you weren't in the loop, Al." "The point is, Al--and I don't know if you get this--but a political campaign is not just a performance for people." "Let me explain to you, Al, how the private sector works." At such times, Bradley looks at the Vice President as if Gore had suddenly morphed into an overripe mackerel...