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...that's the pitch for this new electronic world: faster, cheaper, better. It's the same line we've heard for decades from computer manufacturers, stereomakers and software firms like Microsoft. "Information at your fingertips" is what Bill Gates called it as far back as 1990. Then it was an unimaginably seductive vision. Now it has become a lucrative reality for a select few. Compare.Net, for instance, has grown from four employees to nearly 40 in less than two years, and its revenue growth is a stunning 25%--every month. Yahoo's lucre spreads beyond Yang and Filo. Just...
...simplest of questions--How do I buy a new sport- utility vehicle?--and step away from your PC in an hour with more information than you might have gathered in a month without a modem. And that information may be better than anything you've ever seen. Carpoint.com the Microsoft website, lets you look at 3D, interactive pictures of the inside of dozens of sports cars--something you can't do anywhere in the real world. The virtual world, for all its hype and promise, is finally delivering on at least one big idea: information, at last, is at your...
...since Bill Gates took Microsoft public in 1986 has Wall Street witnessed anything like the wealth-creating power of today's Internet stocks. Consider Amazon.com an online bookseller that has lost more than $30 million since 1995 with nary a penny of profit in sight. No matter. Amazon's $5 billion in market value exceeds the combined capitalization of Barnes & Noble and Borders Group, the two largest U.S. bookstore chains. The rise of No. 1 search engine Yahoo has been no less phenomenal. It stood at $181 a share last week after reporting second-quarter earnings of $8.1 million--following...
...angering its biggest customer. For the Pentagon, halting the shrinkage of its stable of weapons suppliers was more than an economic decision. In the defense industry, decreased competition means not just potentially higher prices but potentially lost lives. Bet Joel Klein wishes he could use that argument against Microsoft...
...operating system runs faster, is more integrated with the Internet and has more self-management tools, according to a news release from Microsoft on its Web page...