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...book, where he thanks many of the characters for their time and patience, serves as a startling reminder that it all actually happened. It's all very real--the friendship, faith and trust, but also the shocking pain, suffering and loss of self-control. The Tennis Partner opens a portal to another world, a world many people ignore, either consciously or unconsciously, one of dependency and addiction. Anyone who reads the novel will inevitably come away with an altered sense of such addictions and their repercussions, both physical and emotional. It's quite possible that one will never look...
...collectors are following Scott online. EBay is by far the largest trading post, with a million registered users bidding on 700,000 items in more than 1,000 categories. But Auction Universe, owned by Times Mirror, ties into the publishing company's vast archive of newspaper want ads. And portal giants Yahoo, Excite and Lycos are entering the arena...
Plenty of conservative investors predict the same fate for today's highflying Internet stocks, which owe much of their appeal to the growth in online commerce. So why are America Online and Yahoo, each in its way a portal to the Net, two of my favorite stocks? Because the Net really delivers what TV shopping only promised. Rather than sitting in front of the tube, stupefied by a parade of junk while waiting for something you might want to buy, on the Net you can instantly research and order exactly what you want--whether a pearl necklace or a ticket...
...wherever they want with ease--there are very few locations that attract a mass audience of the sort that advertisers can get through, say, the Superbowl. As a result, search and commerce sites like Yahoo and chief rival Excite have become gateways (the Net buzz word is portals) to the rest of the electronic universe. And owning a portal is looking a lot like owning a toll bridge. Yahoo charges about 4[cents] for every ad it serves up on many of its 115 million pages every day. And those prices will rise as Yahoo develops technology that lets...
...with Softbank's $250 million infusion into Yahoo last week, the most likely use for the cash is promotion. Look for a big push in September for E*Trade's stab at a "financial portal" called Destination E*Trade. Originally slated for a roll-out last May, the E*Trade site is supposed to be the personal finance and investing version of ESPN Sportzone or CBS Sportsline -- a central hub with monster traffic that's worth money to other marketers. This suddenly seems workable, especially if Softbank's even bigger web investments throw traffic to E*Trade. In related online...