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...freshman year, Jimmy filled his room in Weld with friends and acquaintances. He gave a PowerPoint presentation on Scientology and offered to explain the religion to anyone curious or interested. Jimmy thinks he’s Harvard’s only Scientologist. But he can’t say enough about...
...eBay spending $2.6 billion to buy a $60 million Internet phone company called Skype that has yet to turn a profit? During a presentation to investors this week, eBay CEO Meg Whitman used 75 PowerPoint slides to justify her intense, and expensive, interest in Skype, but analysts were skeptical. Whitman enthusiastically pitched the idea that Skype, a free service that lets users talk to each other via computer, would increase eBay's transaction volume by making it easier for buyers and sellers to talk to each other. She theorized that eBay could start collecting new fees from its users...
...With their Powerpoint presentations, their conversations, their meetings, [scientists] were successful in educating lawmakers so that they could feel comfortable about the ethical questions raised,” says Dufresne. “The more legislators understood, the greater the support grew. Education was vitally important—it was key to the success...
...into a PDA. That's right: 4 GB of built-in memory is what distinguishes LifeDrive, PalmOne's first new line of handhelds in 2 1/2 years ($500; palmone.com) from competing Palms and pocket PCs. The extra memory will get you far businesswise. You can archive quite a few PowerPoint presentations, for example, and a GPS street-level map of the entire U.S. Built-in wi-fi and Bluetooth wireless networking (plus infrared and USB ports) let you juggle e-mail accounts, surf the Web and transfer files...
Forty applicants initially entered the competition and 10 finalists were chosen to give PowerPoint presentations of their business models to a panel of three judges. The finalists received free consulting from experienced venture capitalists in the week leading up to the presentations...