Word: investments
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Consider a stock or mutual fund in which you invest $100 a month at a starting price of $20 a share. After one month, the price is $25, a month after that $10, then $30, $15 and, finally, right back at $20, where it stays for a month. No gain after six months, you say? True, the stock is where it was when you started buying: $20. But because you invested $100 each month, you would have accumulated 34 shares at an average price of just $17.65, and be up by the annual equivalent of 27%. That's the magic...
These fast, cheap networks are rewriting what used to be the first commandment of telecommunications: Thou shalt be huge. No phone company now has to invest billions in an expensive network. Instead it can just piggyback on other folks' networks, which have excess capacity to rent. Some upstarts are building networks of their own. Says Joseph Nacchio, CEO of Qwest, a telecom upstart based in Denver: "All the old reasons for scale are gone." Nacchio, who left the No. 3 slot at AT&T to run Qwest, compares the latest round of mergers to "an oligarchy buying a monopoly...
...instantly research and order exactly what you want--whether a pearl necklace or a ticket to Maui or 100 shares of stock--at the lowest price around. E-commerce is already big, and it's going to be huge. Can you afford not to invest...
...Amazon.com the online bookseller, is up 312% this year on strong sales growth--but still without earnings. And Broadcast.com which streams music and video over the Net, blew from 18 to 61 in its first six days of trading through last Friday, also with zero earnings. If you invest now, will you play the trend or get played for a chump...
...make that leap, there's another way to invest in the Net that I call the Forty-Niner strategy. If you don't want to lend your money to gold prospectors, invest in the companies that sell them shovels and pans. On the wired frontier, those firms include Cisco and Lucent, which are building much of the Net's physical infrastructure of routers and switches...