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...BILL GATES is worth more than $30 billion, thanks to his 12.3% stake in a resurgent Microsoft, whose Windows operating system dominates the desktop on 90% of the world's PCs. Gates' empire extends to Internet access (MSN), television (MSNBC and a stake in cable giant Comcast), computer games (Xbox) and even philanthropy (the $24 billion Gates Foundation). Gates, 46, was slow to recognize the importance of the Internet. But with his ambitious .NET initiative--and diminished pressure from antitrust regulators--the world's richest man may end up dominating a whole new realm: cyberspace...
Darby Overseas, the investment firm chaired by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, last year injected $20 million into the Mexican telecom firm Protel. Now Darby is leading a new group, which includes IBM and Comcast, to invest solely in Latin American new technology and telecom...
...owned for tax purposes but effectively controlled by the Dulles boys) that would create a cable behemoth with some 25 million subscribers, 3 million high-speed Internet-access customers, and a hell of a lot of train tracks for all that content (yours truly included). How big a behemoth? Comcast?s 8.5 million subs would be a very distant second...
...Disney and its gang - and Comcast, not to be counted out by any means - the upside of a marriage is pretty much the same: all of Lord Armstrong?s lands and a big step up on the ladder to the content-and-technology, one-stop-shopping convergence heaven everybody swears is the future of broadband...
...Which means this flirting frenzy could die down without Armstrong ever getting the Comcast-topping offer he?s primping for - but then again, he never wanted a son-in-law in the first place...