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...investors' renewed love affair with the Internet? Shares in eBay leapt 14% after the online marketer last week cheered a 53% leap in second-quarter profit. After its own fourfold rise in quarterly earnings, Google's shares lingered around $300 - a long way from last August's $85 debut price - and at least one analyst predicts they will hit $400. And revenue and profit unveiled at Yahoo! had a healthy glow, too. Innovation has been key at all three, says Standard & Poor's Internet equity analyst Scott Kessler: "They have amazing virtual research labs - those websites." And increasingly, users like...
...largely unfettered. That may be changing. The Walt Disney Internet Group announced in early July that it is teaming up with Sprint to develop a line of mobile phones, due out next year, aimed squarely at preteen children. Meanwhile, the market is already filling up. In March, Firefly Mobile debuted a model designed for the lunch-box set. Later this summer, a company called Wherify will debut its Wherifone, and in September, Enfora will introduce its version, the TicTalk...
...that the pitch didn’t cause him considerable anxiety. Summers practiced his delivery two nights before his Fenway debut in a private session with Harvard assistant baseball coach Matt Hyde...
...doesn't hit the air until July 24, but the new Caracas-based regional television network Telesur is already being called the Latin al-Jazeera. Like the Qatar-based network, which since its debut in 1996 has become the broadcasting voice of the Arab world, Telesur (sur is Spanish for "south") aspires to be the medium through which Latin Americans see their news and culture. Some 70% of its $2.5 million seed money has been put up by oil-rich Venezuela and its flamboyant President, Hugo Chávez--whose leftist, often anti-U.S. agenda includes increased Latin American integration...
Later this summer, MSN will debut its Virtual Earth feature, which will compete with Google Earth and offer even more detailed images. Its new search page, search.msn.com has a "local search" feature and is increasingly powerful and easy...