Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only love, and put so much ache and age into it you could hear a collective heart breaking. Now, with the release of the CD Sunday Morning to Saturday Night, Reba and the rest better watch out. Matraca (rhymes with mesa) is moving up, from composer to competitor...
...deal goes through--and it will certainly get a hard look from antitrust officials--AOL will have 12 million members, almost six times as many as its nearest competitor, the Microsoft Network. But while the news was big, AOL had no idea the coup would so clearly signal that the company had finally arrived. As congratulatory calls poured in, AOL employees shared a moment of collective corporate shock: "Well, I guess Steve was right...
Imagine too what Microsoft can do. No company is a bigger threat, yet Microsoft is both partner and competitor for AOL. Case says it's a relationship based on "ambivalence and, to some extent, fear." Soon AOL will unveil new alliances with Microsoft that include everything from licensing the online magazine Slate--on AOL starting this fall--to becoming part of Microsoft's "Active Desktop," which will let AOL deliver information to Windows computers using new Microsoft technology. Pittman, for one, feels AOL holds a better hand: "Microsoft's destiny...
They'd been dueling for more than a decade, the binary wonders of the computer age: Steve Jobs, the flower-child dreamer whose Apple Computer brought the world the Mac's cheerful desktop icons, and Bill Gates, the brilliant and ruthless competitor whose Microsoft tamed the world with Windows after sneaking in behind those scary columns of DOS code. Their battle for control of the home computer suggested '60s barricades re-erected for the corporate '80s: Yin vs. Yang. Luke vs. Vader. Kennedy vs. Nixon. Jeans vs. Pinstripes. Art vs. Commerce...
...company's practices regarding Medicare billing and its home-care operations. Dr. Thomas Frist Jr., Columbia's vice chairman, announced he would be taking over the posts of chairman and chief executive officer. The resignations came as the company was considering being acquired by its next-largest hospital competitor, Tenet Healthcare, to form a $30 billion, 500-hospital chain. Both Scott and Vandewater denied any wrongdoing in the continuing federal investigation, a multi-agency effort which seeks among other things to determine if the company overbilled federal healthcare programs by millions of dollars. Frist, who founded Hospital Corporation of America...