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...better target customers. MicroStrategy went public in 1998, and the stock took off after the creation of Strategy.com a unit that beams custom-tailored information to subscribers of clients like Ameritrade, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. This month, Saylor announced a $100 million charitable scheme to launch an "Internet university." He says these plans haven't been changed by the news...
...State, since any decision Jackson makes could serve as potentially damaging precedent in the 115 civil suits the company is currently facing. Still, Microsoft will almost certainly appeal Jackson's decision, a process that should reach the Supreme Court right about the time that Windows 2002 is ready to launch. Plenty of time for a few more stock swings before then...
What's certainly missing is the service's piece de resistance, the bullet train modeled on France's futuristic TGV (train a grande vitesse). Now scheduled to launch in July, the Amtrak bullet has been delayed as builders attempt to adapt European tilting technology to America's rough freight tracks. Meanwhile, Amtrak is introducing other improvements to its Northeastern service under the Acela logo--primarily a reduction of the Boston-New York trip from five hours to just under four, using newly electrified tracks. The bullet train, a.k.a. the Acela Express, will reach speeds of up to 150 m.p.h., cutting...
...done charity work together, and we've grown close." Meanwhile--fatwa be damned--SALMAN RUSHDIE, 53, is seeing 29-year-old Indian model, author and New York City society gal PADMA LAKSHI. Rushdie, who is still married to his London-based third wife Elizabeth West, met Lakshi at the launch party for Talk magazine in New York last July. The two have been seen at movies and restaurants around Manhattan, where Rushdie moves without the accompaniment of his security squad. What would make a man risk so much? Perhaps Lakshi's portentously titled cookbook, Easy Exotic, says...
Meet Year 2000 compliance needs. Many of the systems replaced on July 1 were not Year 2000-compliant, part of the reason for selecting a launch date before the New Year...