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...Lalit Kumar, a 22-year-old resident of New Delhi who works part time as a data-entry operator, hasn't found the job market quite as receptive to his talents. Kumar, one of the tens of thousands of young Indians who thronged a giant IT job fair in the city's Pragati Maidan exhibition center on Aug. 23, squats in a corner of the hall at the end of a long day. He's been trying to hand out r?sum?s all morning, but no recruiter has bothered taking one. "Everyone in Delhi wants to be in IT right...
...Commercial online-music sites have hit it big in the U.S. and Europe, thanks to the success of iTunes, which recently sold its 100 millionth song. Even Microsoft is shouldering its way into the business. Last week, the software giant launched its U.S. online-music store, MSN Music. But to the frustration of millions of willing Asians with MP3 players and broadband connections, buying the latest hits online is difficult, because the big U.S. music sites are ignoring the region and local alternatives...
...still view the Internet as an enemy, not a sales opportunity. They don't want to license tunes to online sellers, fearing songs downloaded legitimately would soon be widely circulated illegally. One of the main online priorities right now, says Yashudi Ide of Sony Music Entertainment, the Japanese electronic giant's record label, "is to protect copyrights...
...dark-wood-paneled office on Times Square, is bringing in just over $100 million a year in revenue, according to a source close to the company. That would mean the firm is collecting over $2 million per employee, which is phenomenal. (By comparison, Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street banking giant, takes in roughly $1.2 million per employee.) Companies like Nextel, Purdue Pharma and the nuclear-power-plant operator Entergy hire the firm to advise them on logistics and security. And, of course, for the name Giuliani...
...biggest foundations are also the newest. They include a €820 million foundation set up by Klaus Tschira, a co-founder of the German software firm SAP, which funds science competitions and antismoking campaigns, and a $250 million foundation set up in 2000 by Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant. In Germany some newer foundations are following the example of Reinhard Mohn, who built Germany's Bertelsmann into a media powerhouse after World War II and in 1993 transferred the company's ownership to a foundation that now has about €735 million in assets. In Belgium Luc Tayart...