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...chance. If AT&T's big investors think Comcast offers value, they may pressure the board to take the deal. With Comcast, shareholders would get not just cash but also two of the canniest managers in the business. It's hard to argue with industry-topping profit margins. And in an age when communications technology is changing at the speed of light, it may be the wrong time to bet against the family that knew just when to get out of belts and cuff links...
...largest online supermarket left standing--Peapod.com serving New England and Chicago--is now owned by the $65 billion Dutch mega-chain Royal Ahold. Having a Dutch uncle has won Peapod its first operating profit since the high-tech home-delivery service was founded in 1989. It expects to be fully profitable by 2003, partly because it curtailed its early ambitions. "We got too big," says Marc van Gelder, a former Ahold executive who is Peapod's ceo. "Now we're staying east of the Mississippi"--and binding the company tightly to Ahold-owned stores and distribution centers...
...term--say, motherhood--and Yahoo and other engines spit out a list of sites ranked by human editors or by a formula, such as how many times the word had appeared on a site. There was a purity to the old way, but something was missing: a profit stream...
...That profit stream has been located and claimed by Bill Gross, founder and CEO of Internet "incubator" Idealab. Gross created GoTo, the leading pay-for-placement search engine, in 1998, and now it's hotter than ever. Listings on GoTo are ranked by cold, hard cash: where a site appears on the results list is determined by how much money it pays GoTo...
...artiste-savant act fool you. Moby is extremely shrewd when it comes to the pursuit of profit. After his 1999 album, Play, stalled on the charts because it couldn't break through niche-driven radio playlists, Moby and longtime managers Marci Weber and Barry Taylor devised a remarkable strategy in which all 18 album cuts were licensed for commercial use. Songs from Play showed up in ads for Nordstrom and Nissan, in an Oliver Stone movie and--egad!--on Veronica's Closet before finally muscling their way onto radio in between Limp Bizkit and Britney Spears...