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...AWARDED. To SpaceShipOne, a privately built rocket funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen; the $10 million ANSARI X PRIZE, created in 1996 by MIT graduate Peter Diamandis to make low-cost space travel accessible to the public; in Mojave, California. To win the prize, the rocket had to fly into space and return to earth twice in less than a week. According to SpaceShipOne's designer Burt Rutan, the prize covers less than half of Allen's original investment...
Both companies claim they have attracted a critical mass of supporters. Sony has enlisted Hitachi, Samsung, Sharp, LG and Dell, among others. Toshiba trumpets the fact that Microsoft has pledged that its next Windows operating system will be compatible with...
...Menlo Park, Calif. By the early 1970s, many of us at Xerox PARC had become point-and-click fans, using state-of-the-art Alto computers. But beyond that little world, few people were aware of the device until Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple Macintosh in 1984. It took Microsoft's Windows 95 to take the mouse mainstream--some 30 years after its invention...
...last week, Neelie Kroes, the E.U.'s incoming antitrust chief, described herself as "a tough girl." She'd better be, if she's to take over from Competition Commissioner Mario Monti in November. Huge cases loom, including one with Coca-Cola, and legal and political challenges by software behemoth Microsoft, which Monti fined a record €497 million in March for allegedly abusing its dominant market position. Plus, the European Court of First Instance seems intent on rolling back Monti decisions; last week, it ruled that the E.U. had been wrong to block an aborted 2000 bid by WorldCom/MCI...
...will never have so much money in our lifetimes (though for some budding entrepreneurs it’s not out of the question). In fact, in 2004, Johnny Harvard would only rank as the fourth richest person in the world, according to Forbes—right ahead of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen (20 billion), but well behind Bill Gates (48 billion). But how much is Harvard’s money really worth in everyday terms? Let FM crunch the numbers for you (all figures, naturally, are in dollars signed by El Presidente Larry H. Summers...