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...Grinda of Zingy made the leap into cell phones from another recent tech darling, online auctions. A native of France, Grinda sold his company Aucland, a pan-European version of eBay, to the Spanish company Terra in 2000. After watching a friend make a fortune in ringtones--a business he once thought would never be more than a novelty--Grinda got into the game himself. He started Zingy and sold it to the Japanese company For-Side.com last May, but he is still running the business and pushing the company into city guides and traffic reports...
...unlike some others, Grinda thinks there's still plenty of room for growth even within ringtones. Record labels have only recently embraced fully licensed ringtones that actually sound like music, he says, and Zingy is racing to sign up the most popular hip-hop acts to exclusive ringtone deals. (His roster already includes 50 Cent, Ludacris and Snoop Dogg.) Grinda says the only thing holding the content back is handsets: just some 15% of cell phones in use today support the best-quality ringtones. Of course, Americans typically replace their cell phones every 18 months. "Give me two years...
...hitting the Prince hard. The most venomous attack to date came last week from Communist Journalist Wim Klinkenberg, who charged that Bernhard had been a member of Hitler's SS. European gossip sheets have also been full of reports about his friendship with French Socialite Helene ("Poupette") Grinda, 32. There is no proof for any of these charges or innuendos...
...might be able to shed light on the scandal. Meantime, two left-wing members of the Dutch Parliament boldly demanded that the Prince's private life should be investigated, too. Gossip sheets further titillated Europeans by talking of Bernhard's friendship with French Socialite Helene ("Pussy") Grinda, 32. The London Daily Express reported rumors that Bernhard had used Lockheed money to meet "personal commitments...
...Khan, 22, was fresh out of prospective begums, at least as far as anyone in the gossip mills knew. One of his brightest flames, Sylvia Casablancas, 19, daughter of Mexican Moneybags Fernando Casablancas, disclosed that summer had brought her a love match with handsome French Tennistar Jean-Noel Grinda, 22. That still left the Aga linked with pretty Tracy Pelissier, 18, stepdaughter of British Moviemaker Sir Carol Reed, and the Aga's house guest in Cannes for a spell last summer. Tracy's mother spiked any thoughts of serious romance most effectively last week: she announced her daughter...