Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to sit here today nodding about the power of electrified commerce. But back in the day when you--frankly, when everyone--was pooh-poohing the idea of online sales, there were a few folks who believed. One of them, on a summer day in 1994, quit his lucrative job at a New York City investment firm, packed up and, with his wife driving, made a now legendary voyage to Seattle to start what he thought would be a good business. By the time he arrived there he had a plan to sell books over the Internet. Investors thought...
Okay, so right away, I admit I'm beginning with an idea that has been overused more than the funds in the Driskell-Burton election campaign...
...started with a patent. In 1997 Amazon introduced a feature on its web site called 1-Click shopping. The idea was that the site would remember your address and billing information from prior purchases so that you wouldn't have to re-enter them every time you bought something. It was a pretty good idea, good enough that Amazon applied for, and received, a patent on it. MORE...
...family favorites, Alexander Mamut and Roman Abramovich. Much of the war has been waged by proxy on TV, with nasty Sunday-night news battles setting the tone. On ORT, a state-owned network that is largely controlled by Yeltsin supporter Boris Berezovsky, news anchor Sergei Dorenko bludgeons home the idea that Luzhkov is a murderer, a crook, a hypocrite. Yevgeny Kiselev, the main talking head on the private, pro-opposition TV network NTV, tries to defend Fatherland. The pungent, brutal Dorenko seems to be winning, largely because Kiselev often trips over his own convoluted sentences...
...business world was shocked when Ivester announced he would retire next April to make way for "fresh leadership," putting an end to a tenure that was as extraordinarily rocky as it was brief. The Georgia native insistently echoed company statements that stepping down at age 52 was his idea. But veteran Coke watchers couldn't help speculating that there must have been a shove from disenchanted members of the company's board of directors. "This was a guy you would have had to carry out in a box," says Tom Pirko, president of Bevmark, a consultant to the industry...