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Gross, a leading financier of the Internet revolution, has had some often chronicled setbacks lately, losing hundreds of millions in the dotcom collapse. But GoTo, based in Pasadena, Calif., looks like a winner. GoTo's sponsored searches are ubiquitous. Along with the action on its own site, GoTo powers searches on most other major engines, including AOL, AltaVista, Lycos and MSN. GoTo's stock has quadrupled in a year, and in a punishing investment market the company raised an additional $60 million in funding last week...
...rival Anheuser-Busch, Miller instead sponsored the NFL website superbowl.com and ran ads on two other sites where the Super Bowl was being discussed. Tobaccowala's team also designed an online poll for superbowl.com and promoted it in newspapers and on billboards. In each ad, the dot in each dotcom was replaced with a Miller can. Final score: recognition of Miller as an official sponsor jumped more than 50%, and sales increased by double digits...
...classical-music whiz kids are as common as laid-off dotcom executives, but Hilary Hahn is no robotic virtuoso. Her tone is lean and sweet, her interpretations smart and unshowy; even the hardest-boiled prodigy-hating critics in the business go all mushy when she plays Bach, Beethoven, Barber and Bernstein. Wait, there's more. She has lovely, wide-set eyes and the figure of a ballerina. And she writes the liner notes for her CDs, as well as an online journal, hilaryhahn.com illustrated with photos that she takes herself. Next to her, even Haley Joel Osment looks like...
...postings on the Usenet discussion group network, plus a five-language webpage translation service and a search facility for more than 150 million images. The San Francisco company says it plans to float a share offering before the end of the year, though with a relatively modest, post-dotcom-shakeout price tag of $250 million...
...keep operating. Few analysts expect them to get it. Sand Hill Road - world capital of venture capitalists - is just a short drive down route 101 from Webvan, but the VCs are unlikely to open their doors again to a company that has already burned through $480 million; a dotcom that planned to serve 23 markets by now but is mired in just seven. Ironically, plenty of VCs are Webvan customers (San Francisco and Silicon Valley being one of the most lucrative arenas for a firm that delivers groceries to the horribly busy). But they're also a sanguine...