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...weeks of making that fateful decision, some help, at least, is on the way. Following a proposal by Undergraduate Council President Paul A. Gusmorino ’02, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) and other pieces of the College administration are in the planning stages of a Web portal for concentrations. In his draft proposal, Gusmorino accurately notes that “in choosing a concentration, students are asked—perhaps for the first time ever—[to] choose between two or more deeply held interests in a serious way.” Using the portal...
...officials of the Community Foundation Silicon Valley, where contributions this year have been running 50% behind the year-ago pace. The foundation suffered major setbacks when the Web portal AltaVista, which had pledged 25,000 IPO shares, postponed the offering last April and then abandoned it altogether in January in the midst of an ice-cold market and following several rounds of layoffs...
...says Jasmine Koh, regional Internet analyst for UBS Warburg in Hong Kong. "Now it's shifting to be a global game." That means opportunities for the likes of AOL, Yahoo!, Microsoft MSN Online and Lycos Asia, which reportedly spent $12.8 million to buy myrice.com, a Hong Kong-based community portal aimed at Chinese subscribers...
...number of subscribers would eventually bring in ad revenue. But advertising is a thin market in China?total spending online is well under $80 million, compared with $6 billion in the U.S.?and industry watchers say it will take years for China's online revenues to sustain even one portal...
More than 40 Philippine websites have been hacked in the past year, including those of the nation's navy and air force, popular portal Yehey.com and AMA computer college. On many of the sites hackers have left obscene messages berating the system administrator for sloppy security while also heaping scorn on rival hackers, in a boasting battle similar to those between rappers. "When creativity expresses itself in an immature way, it can often be destructive," says Randy David, a sociology professor at the University of the Philippines. That's especially true, he points out, in a class-ridden country where...