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...painted as a lady bug to promote the Oscar-winning director's other "bug"--Pixar's computer-animated film A Bug's Life. Lasseter's tale of greedy grasshoppers and anxious ants broke the Thanksgiving holiday box-office records with $45.7 million in ticket sales and slaughtered its main competitor, Babe: Pig in the City. Hollywood, skeptical before the release, took note. BUGS LEAVE BACON ACHIN', Daily Variety snorted merrily...
...simple: get as many people as possible onto its service. Now that it's a sprawling, vertically integrated e-commerce company, nasty intramural conflicts are inevitable. When Jeff Bezos upgrades Amazon.com's server software, for instance, will he buy it from AOL, which is the host for arch-competitor Barnes & Noble? Will the Internet service providers who compete with AOL choose Navigator as their browser, and thus enrich their fiercest rival? How will McNealy feel when AOL creates enterprise tools for NT as well as Sun's Solaris...
...primary business is selling a decidedly low-tech commodity: books. Daily, it must stare down a Goliath competitor that has more stores than it has employees. Last quarter it lost nearly $25 million. Now it's rolling the dice and expanding. Would you invest in this company...
...changed with the click of a mouse. Within four months 75% of all Net users were peering at the Web through the window of the Netscape browser. Netscape's co-founder Marc Andreessen and his band of brainy programmers grabbed the world's fastest-growing market despite an entrenched competitor: NSCA Mosaic, the breakthrough browser Andreessen himself had helped write as a student at the University of Illinois...
...those who haven't read Raymond's excellent New Hacker's Dictionary, is geek for "fear, uncertainty and doubt"--a trick invented by IBM and perfected by Microsoft for scaring people away from a competitor's product...