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...India's Future" profiles four brave individuals who are working to change India. Last September, Ratnesar and Stein teamed up to write GetRich.com, an inside look at Silicon Valley e-commerce entrepreneurs seeking to make millions, fast. This week the pair takes us inside the do-it-yourself dotcom scene, where everyone from Stephen King to scruffy indies is using the Internet to distribute his own music, TV, film and books. Ratnesar is now based in London, and so the team's techno-savvy came in handy. They wrote the story over speakerphone, with their computers hooked up across...
Based on any 20th century valuation model, the big brands are screaming buys, selling at huge discounts to the market. In the 21st century, things are different. Consider, for instance, how Wall Street values P&G's sales compared with those of a dotcom retailer. P&G's price-to-sales ratio: $2.12 of stock per dollar of sales. The same dollar's worth of Tide, say, sold through Priceline.com costs shareholders more: $26.11, based on Priceline's recent close of $94. And to own a dollar-size piece of the sales at fledgling dotcom grocery Webvan, you'll have...
NASDAQ Hits 5000 with dotcom fever. What, you didn't load up on eBay...
...Dolly begat Millie, Christa, Alexis, Carrel and Dotcom... The British company that shocked the world by producing the first cloned sheep announced Tuesday that it had produced five cloned piglets - and not only that, certain genes had been "knocked out" of some organ cells of the above-named piglets, signaling a breakthrough in the medical application of cloning technology: Knocking out the genes prevents a human recipient from rejecting a pig organ transplant. "This opens the door to making modified pigs whose organs and cells can be successfully transplanted into humans - the only near-term solution to solving the worldwide...
Director Younger is only 27, and possibly just a tad retro. If he were really on cynicism's cutting edge, wouldn't Seth have a dotcom and be frantically kiting an IPO? Maybe not. Maybe that's the sequel. In the meantime, we have this curiously intense, alertly principled, refreshingly uncynical movie to savor...