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...Internet, though, the shelves go on and on and on. And as words, music and now video move to this new environment, the traditional economics of media are under attack. Tellingly, the most valuable media company in the world right now is not Disney or News Corp. or Time Warner (owner of Time) but Google, which helps people find stuff on those endless online shelves...
Only after reading Jerry Kaplan's book on GO Corp.--a former tech high flyer that flamed out--did Alvelda realize the marketability of a concept contained in a chapter of his 1995 Ph.D. thesis. That concept begat MicroDisplay, his first start-up, that same year and united his twin passions: education and technology. "There is an aspect of education and communication that helps people to grow personally that I never anticipated as part of the corporate world," he says...
...Gore, take another bow. Hollywood is not the only place concerned about global warming. Now Wall Street is worried too. On Feb. 25, the Texas utility TXU Corp. agreed to a proposed $45 billion buyout--the biggest deal ever to take a public company private--with major environmental initiatives attached...
...boom of luxury villas. The annual publication of a list of the country's richest people seems like just another capitalist milestone for a modernizing economy. After all, "in the world of business, people need to know where they stand," says Truong Dinh Anh, a division director for FPT Corp., a Hanoi-based telecommunications and Internet company...
...hardly a disinterested observer. Not only did he rank 20th on the VNExpress list (his stock is worth $35 million), but FPT is the parent company of the news site that published the list. And who is Vietnam's richest person, according to VNExpress? Truong's cousin, FPT Corp. CEO Truong Gia Binh, pictured, whose shares in the tech conglomerate are worth nearly $200 million. Call it the Vietnamese Dream...