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...mobile-phone industry used to be straightforward. Operators, like Vodafone, ran networks based on cellular technologies that transmitted signals through the air from giant, ground-based antennas. And handset vendors, like Nokia and Motorola, churned out phones that worked on those networks, which they'd sell through the operators. An easy-enough, symbiotic relationship for all involved. [an error occurred while processing this directive...
JEFF BEZOS 1999 >WARREN BUFFETT Bezos is the founder and CEO of online retailing giant Amazon.com...
...fleet of dull cars, a tangled mess of suppliers, unproductive plants and $20 billion in debt. Ghosn was given the job of salvage man after his bosses at Renault bought a controlling stake. Born in Brazil and reared in Lebanon, Ghosn found his way to tire giant Michelin, where he developed his restructuring chops. But he had never run a car company, let alone a Japanese one, and almost everyone bet against him: a foreigner with a funny name tackling Japan Inc. He proved them spectacularly wrong, turning Nissan into an auto power with industry-leading profits and such stylish...
...also serious about finding a North American partner for his two-headed animal, despite a very public and unsuccessful mating dance with General Motors this summer and fall. Kirk Kerkorian, a large GM shareholder, wanted the flailing auto giant to join the Nissan-Renault family, hoping Le Cost Killer could wield le knife at GM and help boost the stock. Having witnessed the leaps that two former mediocrities like Nissan and Renault could make by partnering, Ghosn found the idea of pooling forces with GM appealing. And he figured GM could help his carmakers save billions of dollars on everything...
DIED. Robert Lockwood, 91, giant of Mississippi blues who, after learning guitar at age 11 from blues pioneer Robert Johnson, fused raw Delta chords, electric blues and urban funk; in Cleveland, Ohio. Teaming up in the 1940s with harmonica ace Sonny Boy Williamson, he made Arkansas radio's King Biscuit Time the most influential broadcast...