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...ringtones are like "found money" for both parties, says music-industry analyst Charles Golvin of Forrester Research. "Neither has to do a whole lot of work - just license, sit back and count the money rolling in." Some of that instant cash may find its way to FON, an ambitious new global wi-fi network. Skype, along with Google and others, will invest $22 million in the Spanish start-up, which plans to have more than 1 million hot spots by 2010. Subscribers will pay less than $2 a day to have guaranteed wireless access wherever they roam. More than...
...company worth $9 billion on the London Stock Exchange might qualify for the blue-chip FTSE 100 index.) The reason the numbers are so vague is that the debt reduction plan depends on selling some of the firms' "non-core" assets, such as stakes in STMicroelectronics and Sprint FON Group. "We can sell more or fewer things or sell at higher or lower prices," says the France Telecom chief. Right now, fewer and lower look more likely. STM is 50% off its one-year high, while FON has dropped...
...Pollyannaish projection for Thailand where pizza isn't a bargain meal. A large Super Supreme, Pizza Hut's best seller, goes for about $6.25. A bowl of noodles at a street stall costs about 70. "I can get 10 Thai meals for the price of one pizza,'' says Fon Janyasathien, a school counselor...
...Fon Jariyasathien, 19, school counselor 1.Narai???2.Pizza Hut???3.The Pizza Company "They all need ketchup...
Lacking detailed knowledge of precisely where our ancestors came from, whether they were Fon or Ashanti or Serer, African Americans have tried to adopt the continent as a whole as a place of origin. But that indiscriminate embrace poses problems of its own: Which of the hundreds of languages and cultures that flourish in Africa are we to call our own? What, for example are African Americans raised in the Christian faith to make of religious and cultural traditions such as female circumcision, which is still widely practiced in Africa? I once met a Kikuyu physician in Kenya...