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...sector, it's the best of times?and the worst. When Venugopal Rao Moram, a 29-year-old software engineer living in Bangalore, began looking for a new job in June this year, it took him just two weeks before he found the work he wanted?a position with Microsoft in the city of Hyderabad. "The moment you put your r?sum? on the Internet, the offers start coming in," says Moram, who's been working in the tech sector for six years. "Everyone looking for a job has at least five offers...
...Commercial online-music sites have hit it big in the U.S. and Europe, thanks to the success of iTunes, which recently sold its 100 millionth song. Even Microsoft is shouldering its way into the business. Last week, the software giant launched its U.S. online-music store, MSN Music. But to the frustration of millions of willing Asians with MP3 players and broadband connections, buying the latest hits online is difficult, because the big U.S. music sites are ignoring the region and local alternatives...
...genre with innovative designs, new building components and environmentally friendly approaches. In September, Lindal (2003 sales: $50 million) begins offering two versions of the Graves-designed kit house on its website, where it already sells a prefab home created by James Cutler, the architect behind the home of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. New Jersey architect-cum-performance artist Adam Kalkin is taking orders for his 2,000-sq.-ft. Quik House kit made from steel and shipping containers and priced as low as $76,000, not including land. And Frank Gehry protege Michelle Kaufmann recently debuted Glidehouse, a moderately priced...
...wave of business philanthropy is breaking across Europe. Corporate giving is commonplace in the U.S., where a century ago the Carnegie Corporation and the Rockefeller family pioneered a new type of corporate altruism. Their foundations remain models for companies and wealthy businesspeople, including Microsoft's Bill Gates, whose family foundation is one of the world's biggest. In Europe, however, with the exception of Britain, corporate-giving traditions were wiped out by war, inflation and the growth of the welfare state, which left firms with little incentive to dole out funds. Fueled by high taxes, governments have carried the burden...
...launch. Microsoft jumped in last week with the U.S. debut of MSN Music, which is compatible with a range of players (iTunes files only work on the iPod). Hewlett-Packard has begun selling its own Apple-authorized iPod. And Asia may soon get its first regional digital-music store; Singapore's Soundbuzz, co-founded by a former MTV Asia exec, plans to move into Hong Kong, India and Taiwan by year's end. Have the music biz's blues turned to blue sky? Many think so. Downloading "will be as big as the cell-phone market," predicts Sim Wong...