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...Voilà MTV Desi, which should air nationally in July. After Jay Sean's interview, he sticks around to pose for photographs with fans. "To me, it's been a long time coming," the singer says between autographs. "There is a massive market out there." Sean, an artist and an entrepreneur, pauses and then continues, "We make up one-fifth of the population of the world. Imagine that." --With reporting by Jeanne DeQuine/ Miami, Noah Isackson/Chicago and Laura A. Locke/ Cupertino...
...entrepreneur and her prospective investor now have to ask some new questions. Does her business model effectively induce others to violate copyright?†he asked on his website. “What kinds of advertisements would get her in trouble? What are the ‘reasonable’ steps that she needs to take to stop people from using her technology for infringing uses...
...first enterprises were connected with farming: a group of peasants would set up a roadside market to sell their crops and perhaps buy a truck to haul their own produce as well as, for a fee, food grown by other peasants. But private entrepreneurs and village collectives have now expanded to all kinds of other businesses--inns, restaurants, stores, tailor shops, beauty parlors and light manufacturing like assembly of TV sets--often in competition with government-owned businesses. Some entrepreneurs have even opened services in major cities to recruit maids and other household help for busy urban families. Businessmen...
...most diverse and appealing actors of his generation, at home on Broadway as a runaway soldier in Shaw's Arms and the Man or a rapacious, loony buccaneer in The Pirates of Penzance, onscreen as a psychotic lover in Sophie's Choice or as a nice-guy running-shoe entrepreneur in The Big Chill. Eager for acceptance as a classical performer, he has performed Richard III and Henry V for Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park. Last week Kline returned to Papp's Public Theater off Broadway and took on the ultimate challenge: Hamlet...
...raiders is a USX pension fund with an estimated $2.5 billion in excess assets. Last month the company's stock began moving into some well-known hands. Among the buyers: Robert Holmes à Court, an Australian investor; T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oilman-raider; Irwin Jacobs, the Minneapolis entrepreneur and speculator. Pickens reportedly cashed in his chips two weeks ago for a big profit. Icahn, on the other hand, continued to buy. Last week he announced that his holdings had reached 11.4% of USX and were still climbing. Said Icahn: "We have made a serious offer...