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...despite the sea of uncertainty associated with startups, many students are sticking by them. Computer science concentrators and others say the excitement of working at a potentially lucrative dot-com is worth the risk...
...Yahoo. After the end-of-session bell, the tech bellwether is expected by some to disappoint with its earnings report, thanks to a slowdown in the dot-com advertising sector. (Less new dot-coms these days, which means less new dot-com ad men bidding for space on prime-time portal Yahoo.) If Yahoo - which is unveiling some new voice-based services (read: potential revenue streams) Tuesday afternoon, possibly as a means of softening the blow for the earnings news - can please the Street, good vibrations for the dot-commerce sector could follow. If Yahoo disappoints, it's one more...
...insist on calling pasta "noodles," maybe this will convince you that times have changed. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, whose fourth edition appears this fall, complete with 10,000 entries not found in the third edition of eight years ago, the following sentence is now legitimate English: "The dot-com brainiac went postal, big-time, spewing baba gannouj all over the food court, when some butthead with no sense of netiquette stole his def domain name...
...skip dinner to wait, along with 124 of my fellow college students, outside the Marriott Hotel at Cambridge Center, only to return home at 20 minutes to midnight? The answer: to get rich quick. But, rather than starting a dot-com company, I chose to try out for "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Hey, if you can not only win a million dollars, but also meet Regis Philbin, who could pass up such an opportunity...
...FULLY DOT-COMMITTED Getting a reservation at a ritzy restaurant used to be a time-honored test of one's social clout. Not anymore. A new service called DinnerBroker.com is selling dinner reservations over the Internet. Need a primo table tonight at San Francisco's swank La Folie restaurant? It's yours for 20 bucks. The better the table time and the fancier the venue, the more you pay. The service is up and running in the Bay Area and is set to launch soon in Los Angeles, New York and 25 other cities. God help...