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WBUR claims that in July 2000, Lydon wanted to make "Connection" into a for-profit venture in which he and his partner, Mary McGrath, would have an equity stake, a wish WBUR was unwilling to grant...
...WBUR felt that this proposal was incompatible with the station's mandate as a non-profit institution and incompatible with its reliance on individual contributions for half its financial support," the management said in a statement at the time...
...Direct from Dell, the ads said). Its hyperefficient model helped it pass Compaq to become North America's largest PC manufacturer. Nor is Dell's good news all behind it. Just last Thursday, Dell almost single-handedly ran the Dow up 400 points when it confirmed that first-quarter profit estimates were on track. Last year the company earned $2.3 billion on sales of $32 billion...
Expedia Inc. has broken the elusive online profit barrier. In its first-ever trip to the black, the mostly Microsoft-owned online travel-booking service announced Monday that it expects to report an operating profit of $4 million for the quarter ended in March, with quarterly revenues up 88 percent and gross bookings up 68 percent from this time last year...
...course, Orbitz won't be charging those fees to the airlines that run it, and the presence of the airlines' own individual bookings sites have already pushed the web middlemen to more profitable - but less popular - services like hotel reservations and car rentals. How long till the airlines start getting in on that act too is anybody's guess. But with fees disappearing and inside player Orbitz set to move in with pricing that's almost sure to be predatory, a likelier question could be whether Expedia's first quarterly profit is the beginning of a very short...