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...banking, consulting and marketing fields. The company makes its money through finders fees it collects for hooking up companies with employees and through online advertisers. "With online networking, you're not limited to time and place," says New York City-based co-CEO David Ronick. "It's like a giant cocktail party on the Internet." The party is only getting bigger...
Waste Management may specialize in garbage, but it isn't the only outfit accused of playing dirty. Far from it. Just last week, Motorola sued Intel for allegedly hiring away key employees to obtain its microchip trade secrets. Minneapolis-based agribusiness giant Cargill recently acknowledged that a rogue employee may have lifted proprietary genetic material from a competitor, an admission that effectively killed a $650 million deal to sell its North American seed division to a German biotech venture...
...California man, David Kern, was charged with stealing engineering secrets from his former employer, Varian Associates, a leading Silicon Valley maker of radiotherapy systems used to treat cancer. For more than a year, a federal grand jury has reportedly been looking into whether a subsidiary of financial-information giant Reuters was involved in an attempt to steal data from rival Bloomberg (Reuters says it is cooperating and denies any wrongdoing...
When the lights finally did go down, the surrealness of the entire situation was realized in a bizarre way. Outstage appeared a giant muscled monster controlled as a puppet. I half-expected the band to appear from the creature like something out of the Power Rangers. When the band did emerge, though, they were wearing body suits adorned with day-glo paint. Each grabbed a lighted stick and did a trippy tribal dance. It was absolutely Disney World on acid...
...When the lights finally did go down, the surrealness of the entire situation was realized in a bizarre way. Onstage appeared a giant muscled monster controlled as a puppet. I half-expected the band to appear from the creature like something out of the Power Rangers. When the band did emerge, though, they were wearing body suits adorned with day-glo paint. Each grabbed a lighted stick and did a trippy tribal dance. It was absolutely Disney World on acid...