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...searches a day. Amass that many people anywhere doing anything and somebody is going to try to sell them something. The market for advertising to those Web searchers is worth about $2 billion, and it's growing at a rate of 35% a year--far outpacing any other advertising medium. What's more, Google, the reigning sultan of search, is looking vulnerable. The combination of big money and big opportunity has attracted some mighty big players, including Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon. There's a street fight brewing over Internet search that will make the browser wars look like thumb wrestling...
...five years. And yet Europe depends more and more on the bold entrepreneur. Across the region, over half the 120 million private-sector jobs are in small businesses (with fewer than 50 employees). As Europe's industrial giants move jobs to low-wage locales in developing countries, small and medium enterprises (SMES) are the engine of new job growth, accounting for about two-thirds of all new jobs created. What's it like running a small business in a Europe struggling to emerge from recession? To find out - and explore what might be done to lighten their load - time visited...
...over in 1995 as a bankrupt business creating plastic manufacturing molds, Lenoir and Appli'Plast manager Jacques Vaillant have transformed the company into a producer of plastic components and accessories. End clients include carmakers Ford, Renault, Nissan and Opel, as well as appliance manufacturers. Unlike many small- and medium-sized businesses in France, Appli'Plast refused all financial aid offered by local and regional governments, says Lenoir. It has also not exploited the reduced labor charges on new employee hires arising from France's reduced 35-hour workweek - a measure Lenoir calls "a nightmare." "Rather than offering assistance and incentives...
Currently, the team of physicists is trying to figure out how to move the light spatially through the medium, which would be a step toward building super-fast computers...
...It’s about learning to talk the same language as this medium of video,” she explains. “There’s deeper relationships between sound and image, and audience and performer, and media maker and media watcher that don’t get explored or talked about at all, so I’m trying to talk about that stuff. We talk about being gay, about lesbian identity and stuff like that. I’m a feminist, and everything I write comes from that community...