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...bound volume of Plato in ancient Greek, a polemic from a Latin professor at Princeton 100 years ago on why study of the classics in the original Latin and Greek should remain required for all college students. Those stairs—though rickety—are an unforgettable portal to the past...
...soft-spoken 34-year-old, Hou studied Chinese literature while at university in Beijing and worked as an editor at Sina.com, a major Chinese Web portal, for seven years before starting Shanda in 2005. He describes the company - in which budding writers self-publish their work without having to be vetted by editors - as not only a profitable business, but also an extension of his own literary aspirations. "I believe everyone can be a writer," he says. "Especially now, when the Internet really has become part of our lives...
...Herdict utilizes a burgeoning internet trend known as “crowdsourcing”—asking large groups of people to perform some task in an open forum. Internet access has become more than just a technical issue in recent years, as the Web has become a portal for political dissent and information dissemination that many governments fear might foment unrest. Authoritarian governments frequently censor Internet access, restricting access to pro-democracy sites and sites for organizations documenting human rights violations. China, for instance, denies access to web pages describing the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 and Falun...
Every time there is news about the internet portal Yahoo!(YHOO), it makes the front pages. The only story about Yahoo, however, that deserved attention was the monstrous violation of fiduciary duty that its board made when it turned down Microsoft's (MSFT) offer to buy the company. Beyond that, Yahoo is now a relatively small company with faltering profits that is no longer even important to its own industries, either media or the internet...
...stock traded at $43, just after posting the highest operating income in its history. The stock now trades around $12. Yahoo's market value has dropped to $17 billion. Its value now is about the same as trash hauling firm Waste Management (WMI). In the last quarter, the portal company had an operating loss of $278 million. With goodwill and restructuring charges taken out, Yahoo would have made a modest profit. The sales are not likely to get better...