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...there it is. Three summers, immense sums of money spent on my behalf, frequent flier miles earned, friends earned and lost, and I’m back to where I started: a jack of all trades but a master of none...

Author: By Alex Slack, | Title: Jacks of All Trades | 8/12/2005 | See Source »

After three summers of employment taste-testing, and in anticipation of many more years of the same, it may actually pay to be a jack, and not a master...

Author: By Alex Slack, | Title: Jacks of All Trades | 8/12/2005 | See Source »

...year - and doesn't publicly disclose financial results.) The more direct competitor to eBay, called Taobao (?searching for treasure? in Mandarin) isn't yet profitable, but according to Yang is a ?great franchise in the making.? Both sites were started and are run by 40-year-old internet entrepreneur Jack Ma, who will remain in charge. ?This is definitely an arrangement where we think have great assets coming together, but this (deal) would not have happened without Jack and his team,? says Yang. ?They'll continue to run things as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yahoo! Beefs Up its Search for China's e-Billions | 8/11/2005 | See Source »

Perhaps therein also lies the answer to why Jack's ratings in many cities dip after its first two months. It soon dawns on the Gen Xers that their cool, eclectic music collection is actually the new American songbook, just as their snarky cynicism is the generic spawn of David Letterman. Worse yet, the big news being hidden behind Jack's robotic wall of attitude is this: Jack is the new oldies. Therefore, we all must be getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: You Don't Know Jack | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

...Breslow, president of Big Monster Toys, the Chicago design firm, to create the new toy. "He told me, 'I want another Furby,'" says Breslow, whose team produced the prototype three months later. iZ's blinking beak adds $1 in costs, but Shiffman insisted on keeping it. He incorporated a jack so that users can hook up their iPod to play their own songs pumped up with riffs from iZ. Suggested retail price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Competition: Toyland's Savior? | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

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