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...investment fund is involved in a scattering of businesses, but Yan admits that in the future he wants to own and manage his own empire, with his biggest ambitions centered on media and such nonideological magazines as PC World and the Chinese version of Popular Mechanics. And though he has proved a wizard at attracting capital, Yan has yet to prove himself as a manager. He has had a hard time attracting and retaining foreign managers, something that will be essential if Richina is to continue growing...
...program is a marvel of size, weighing in at under a megabyte-one-tenth to one-twentieth the size of Internet Explorer and Netscape. Similarly, its hardware requirements are downright parsimonious, working well on a 386 class PC with six megabytes of memory...
...astonishment, these claims actually understated Opera's speed. On my Pentium 200 with 64 megabytes of RAM, the ABC News web site took 13 seconds to load in Navigator 4.0. Opera handled the page equally well in an astonishing four seconds. PC World magazine loaded in Opera in seven seconds (versus Netscape Navigator's 22), and Time-Warner's Pathfinder site took a blazingly-quick three seconds in Opera instead of Netscape's 12. What's more, all of these pages were rendered properly by Opera, whose authors boast full HTML 3.2 compliance...
Secondly, Opera is not free. It costs $35, and can be purchased from the company over the Web. A 30-day evaluation copy is available, however, at www.operasoftware.com. Only PC versions are currently available, although the company plans a Macintosh port in the near future...
Then the giant awoke. Fast-forward to late 1996, when Microsoft launched the third revision of its Internet Explorer: it was finally usable. Linked to Windows and bundled with virtually every PC sold, it soon became unavoidable. Netscape's browser revenues went into free fall. It looked as if the company was doomed...