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...Valley by almost 5,500. And even men who should have no problem attracting women--say, good-looking men worth millions of dollars--aren't dipping into the dating pool. Sabeer Bhatia, 31, the co-founder of Hotmail, made $200 million when he sold his company to Microsoft in 1998. Rather than retire, or even slow down, Bhatia founded another company, called Arzoo (a Hindi word for--what else?--passion). He has five cars, a penthouse apartment in San Francisco and a stream of (unanswered) e-mail proposals owing to his well-documented success. Yet Bhatia says he dates "less...
...companies, the money may eventually be, as it was for Microsoft, not in the hardware but the software: the interface, program databases, associated content like TV "magazines" to guide users and advertising. (Neither system currently shows ads, but each has discussed future possibilities, including sponsorships.) "Our strategy is to embed it into other boxes," says TiVo CEO and cofounder Mike Ramsay. "We're going to build it into television sets and DVD players...It will eventually get embedded into every device." Ultimately, several companies will manufacture the boxes under license. Philips currently makes TiVo's box, and this month TiVo...
Some industry observers have suggested that networks, through a combination of legal threats and investments, might try to pressure makers to drop the skip buttons. But analysts predict that as competition increases (Microsoft's WebTV satellite service will offer PVR-like features later in the fall), nothing short of an outright ban will prevent someone from offering such an option...
...tech industry that's making people rich and fueling America's great economic surge is often criticized for the low numbers of minorities in its booming work force. All told, African Americans constitute only 7.2% of the nation's computer scientists; Hispanics, only 3.6%. Part of the reason, as Microsoft chairman Bill Gates can tell you, is that there are too few minorities with the education to fill those jobs. Gates and his wife Melinda addressed that problem last week, when they announced that their foundation will make the largest academic donation ever: $1 billion, which will be distributed over...
...gone unnoticed that Gates' spate of generosity coincides with the government's antitrust trial against Microsoft, which has not gone well for his company. But by encouraging a more diverse flow of talent into the high-tech workforce, Gates will be helping all tech companies, including Microsoft...