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Though Microsoft's lawyers haven't had a chance to make that statement yet, company spokesmen did ballyhoo the AOL-Time Warner deal as proof that the high-tech industries in which Microsoft competes--unfairly, according to the Justice Department--are evolving so quickly and convulsively that to assert Microsoft exerts monopolistic power is "almost comical...
Schou's single-minded devotion has paid off. Cryos, the company he founded in 1987 in the Danish city of Aarhus, claims to be the world's largest sperm bank, with more than 200 active donors and revenues nearing $1 million. In the high-tech world of modern reproduction, sperm is becoming a controversial business, and with his aggressive entrepreneurial flair, Schou is something of a trailblazer. Last year Cryos signed a special agreement with British authorities that will allow the firm to make bulk exports to a Scottish clinic that cannot find donors to meet its tough standards. Schou...
...Israel's real enemy is no longer on its border, but on its horizon. Today, the nuclear capability emanating from Iran constitutes the most serious threat to Israeli security. Countering the Iranian threat requires that the Israel Defense Force (IDF) transform its conventional military doctrine into one based on high-tech warfare. However, the IDF is constrained from doing so because its resources are spread thin coping with multiple threats. Currently, the IDF must plan contingencies for a conventional Syrian attack, a ballistic war with Iran and urban warfare in the West Bank, all the while fighting a counter-insurgency...
Jameson recently switched from Charles Schwab to Paine Webber, and says she is much happier. She touted two other high-tech stocks, CMGI and EDIG. Jameson was more bullish than Peter Lynch and, at least to me, much more convincing. "I just bought Parkervision today. It came out with a new computer chip...
...that an interstate full of delivery trucks will spell the death of your mall. "People will go shopping in stores as a social activity," predicts high-tech guru Esther Dyson, but "there may be a lot of showrooms and fewer places where you actually take things home." Should you buy off-line, automatic in-store bar-code scanning may make checkout lines a thing of the past...