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Once you've sold a company for $2.6 billion, life on the beach can be tempting, particularly if you're Scandinavian. But for dotcom veterans Janus Friis, 30, and Niklas Zennstrom, 40, whose sale of Skype to eBay rocketed them toward Gatesian wealth, the lure of a Great Leap Backward has proved stronger than sun and sand. Having launched Kazaa, one of the first music-file-sharing networks, in 2001 and Skype, the first big Internet-powered phone service, in 2003, the duo began work a year ago on a secret venture dubbed the Venice Project, whose goal...
...different take. Carl L. Anderson says that college students are key to keeping businesses up.“The night that they enforced the 21-and-over rule, the club downstairs was only about halfway full,” Anderson says.Clubs depend on a number of different strategies to lure prospective clubbers in, among them the allure of younger members of the opposite sex. Previously, clubs such as the Roxy had hosted nights where the age restrictions were 21 and over for males but 18 and over for females. “When I was 21, I wanted...
...Publicized as featuring food from Felipe’s, Subway, and Unique Pizza, among others, the lure of free fare was successful in drawing in students often unmotivated towards...
Perhaps the larger question is, do you even want to be in an academic setting immediately after turning in that 150-page senior thesis? Our message to those newly minted or aspiring applicants is simple: Beware of the lure of the Rhodes title. Reconsider that year working for an non-governmental organization abroad or writing a novel. Do not apply for the Rhodes unless you are ready to study and live in Oxford...
...working hard to make sure Iran's ally Hizballah doesn't overthrow Fouad Siniora's government in Beirut. They've been trying to reconcile the Palestinians, partly to wean the militant Hamas from its funders in Tehran. Some even speculate that Riyadh is making overtures to Syria, trying to lure it too from the Iranian fold...