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...smarter and more tailored to the individual, embrace video and music--and be accessible from any device with a chip. By 2010, search-engine advertising will be a $22 billion industry worldwide, up from an estimated $8 billion today, according to Safa Rashtchy, a senior analyst with Piper Jaffray in San Francisco. It's the reason search has become the most hotly contested field in the world of technology...
...iPods angling for kids' minds and allowances, the digital revolution is making life miserable for the $20 billion toy industry. "Kids are playing on computers at earlier ages; they're picking up Game Boys and PlayStations younger than they were five years ago," says analyst Anthony Gikas of Piper Jaffray. "These are good, sexy products. They're cannibalizing the traditional toy market...
...with retailers creating the category," says Jeffrey Klinefelter, a stock analyst who covers the retailing industry for Piper Jaffray Cos. By building up back to college as a fully merchandised event--just like Christmas, Halloween or Mother's Day--retailers are redefining what going to college means. Penny-pinching is out; buying cucumber-scented drawer liners is in. In other words, the dorm section at Target may be packed with everything students need, but it also has tons of stuff they don't know they need until they see it. "It's a huge, untapped market that many retailers ignored...
This year Google will make an estimated 30% profit on revenue approaching $1 billion, according to Safa Rashtchy, an analyst at U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray. Right now 32% of all Web searches go through google.com That number shoots to around 70% when you count searches on sites like AOL.com which licenses Google's technology. Meanwhile, in the real world, Google has just finished moving its 1,300 employees into new headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., previously the offices of former Silicon Valley golden boy (and current Silicon Valley crater) Silicon Graphics. Early next year Google is expected to offer stock...
...index compiled by U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray sank 95% in the two years following its peak in December 1999. Meanwhile, though, business executives have quietly kept their modems switched on. In a survey early this year of 686 large and mid-size companies, AMR Research of Boston found that about one-third were using some form of online exchange. Another third expected to get involved in the next few years. The businesses investing most heavily in B2B were the largest ones, with the clout to compel smaller partners to follow them into cyberspace. Says AMR's John Bermudez: "Companies have...