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...available at desktop.google com works inside your Web browser: type keywords into the search field, just as you would to search the Internet. Although Google's program scours Word and Excel documents, Outlook messages and more, to find matches for your queries, it recognizes audio and video only by file name...
...upheld a ruling made by regulators against two retailers fined for fixing prices in conjunction with the toy firm Hasbro. The regulators say their earlier decision lowered the price of the board game Monopoly by about $8 a set. One retailer, Argos, said it might roll the dice and file a further appeal...
Gunter Thielen didn't expect to play peacemaker when he took over as chief executive of Germany's Bertelsmann in August 2002. The company was laden with $3.5 billion in debt and a slew of dubious new assets, including the controversial online file-sharing site Napster and the now defunct Rosie magazine in the U.S. Still, Thielen's biggest challenge was an internal one: Thomas Middelhoff, the flamboyant CEO Thielen replaced, left behind a simmering crisis between the $22 billion firm and its key owners, the Mohn family. Reinhard Mohn, the 82-year-old patriarch, was so upset by Middelhoff...
...good thing, because he is leading Sony Pictures Entertainment through a period of tectonic shifts in the movie industry. At Sony, the former Disney executive who then headed Penguin Group and later AOL Europe will have to slash costs, find new opportunities in video-on-demand and combat file-sharing piracy. But Lynton believes there's a future for DVDs; he helped bring in a major financing partner for Sony's purchase of MGM and its valuable library of movies. "With new technologies," Lynton says, "the DVD becomes even better." --By Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
Four years ago, CEO Balaji Krishnamurthy devised a jaw-dropping inverted-bonus plan at Planar Systems that put himself dead last when it comes to receiving extra cash: his policy rewards rank-and-file employees first, before moving up the management chain. Since then, this maker of flat-panel displays, based in Beaverton, Ore., has been bombarded with questions from other CEOs about the bonus system, which, Krishnamurthy claims, is a better incentive for every employee to create shareholder value. "Those with a higher capacity to influence the results of the company must first ensure that those with a lower...