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...release their own protest song. REPARATIONS Apartheid's Courtroom Drama Companies that thought they had seen the end of lawsuits stemming from the horrors of the 20th century had better think again. Last week lawyers representing over 33,000 South Africans sued 22 multinational companies, including Barclays, DaimlerChrysler and IBM, for dealing with South Africa's apartheid regime after the United Nations declared the system a crime against humanity. The suit, filed in New York by the Khulumani Support Group which advocates for people scarred by apartheid, comes four months after a similar claim on behalf of four South African...
According to IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter, who teaches a course on the American presidency (taken by Al Gore ’69 when he was an undergrad), Harvard does lend some power in the path to the highest office in the nation. “Reaching the presidency involves long odds, but having a Harvard degree doesn’t hurt,” he writes in an e-mail...
...missed the dotcom boom and must compete against more established hubs in Singapore and Malaysia. But opportunities remain. Because both London and Paris ruled the island, many Mauritians speak English and French, making the island an attractive bilingual base for American companies doing business in Africa and Asia. IBM, Oracle and Microsoft have opened regional offices there, and last month work began on a $50 million "cyber city" to attract new software and IT companies. The government promises low taxes, duty-free imports of IT equipment and automatic residency for anyone who invests more than $500,000 in the industry...
...company has raised some $100 million from investors, among them Rho Ventures, based in New York City, and IBM. The idea is to sell the kiosk for about $60,000 to retailers, resorts and cruise ships and then supply the machine's magic film-development dust as a consumable (on the model of companies that sell razors cheap and profit on the blades). All revenue from photo development goes into the retailer's pocket. Joel Paymer, co-owner of Camera Land, where a kiosk is being tested in New York City, gushes that "it's going to change...
...many times smaller a new molecule-based simple computer developed by IBM is compared to conventional logic circuits...