Word: ebay
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...what's the plan? World domination? Keep throwing money at everything and see what works? Google isn't making friends along the way, taking on the likes of Microsoft (desktop software), eBay (classified advertising), phone companies (the San Francisco wi-fi plan) and others. Google keeps a confidential list of the 100--yes, 100--top priorities under development. That's a long list, and investors would love to know more about it and what Page, Brin and Schmidt are thinking. But secrecy is part of the culture. Google doesn't even invite analysts in for earnings-guidance sessions...
...final irony, those Prototypes have become a kind of sacred merchandise in themselves, sought after by museums and collectors as that ultimate in magical commodities, a work of art. (They're even more valuable than vintage Nikes, which fetch a nice price on eBay.) The Vancouver-based Gen X writer Douglas Coupland has one. So does the great Air Jordan himself. His representatives contacted Jungen to acquire one last year after reading an article in Sports Illustrated about the New York City show. Once the Prototypes started selling briskly, Jungen may have been tempted to start churning them out like...
...describe our day-to-day lives in terms that would have been rather foreign to our forebears of 10 or 20 years ago. We google potential employers, and facebook potential dates. Some people eBay old textbooks, and we all spend an inordinate amount of time e-mailing and IM-ing friends, professors, and parents. The rate at which technologically-charged action verbs enter our vocabulary these days is staggering.What’s perhaps most peculiar about these verbs, however, is that the majority of them seem to come from nouns. Sometimes it’s the name...
Skoll isn't just any filmmaker. He's a cofounder of eBay, who retired at 35 with a reported $2 billion in his pocket. Like most other entrepreneurs who have made their first billion before 35, the boyish-looking Skoll is an intensely driven man. Exhausted employees say he is rarely out of touch and never without his Sidekick, Treo and cell phone. These days Skoll's primary objective is not to make money but rather to spend what he has pursuing such lofty ideals as government accountability and social and economic justice...
Skoll is no novice to philanthropy or quixotic causes. As eBay's first president, he created the eBay Foundation with a donation of 107,250 shares of pre-ipo stock to fund community organizations and provide grants to a variety of non-profit groups. His $600 million Skoll Foundation awards up to 18 grants each year, ranging from $500,000 to $1 million, to midlevel social entrepreneurs. But when Skoll opened Participant Productions in January 2004 and announced his intention to cure what ails the world through film, even his greatest admirers predicted the billionaire would soon be downsizing...