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...guidelines also clarify the University's position on registration of for-profit dot-com domain names...
...recent months, University officials have intensified their scrutiny of the use of the Harvard name, keeping an especially careful eye on for-profit operations...
...failure of most e-tailers to generate anything resembling income has exposed their strategy as essentially hollow. That's because their game plan has called for spending whatever it takes to attract the millions of eyeballs--and open wallets--that any site must have to turn a profit. And "whatever it takes" has too often meant shelling out more for marketing ploys like Super Bowl TV spots than typical customers spend on online products. Wyman estimates that it costs a company like music retailer CDNow more than $70 to win a customer who may spend less than half that amount...
...Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos who preached the gospel of getting big at all costs in order to dominate an online sector. And he may emerge as the biggest beneficiary, even though Amazon, which attracts more than 17 million customers a month, has yet to earn a penny of profit (one reason its shares closed at $67.56 last week, down from their peak of $113 in December...
...products based on a gene known as CCR5. The protein it encodes has emerged as a promising target for anti-AIDS drugs. That rankles Christopher Broder, who, along with a platoon of other scientists, nailed down the link between CCR5 and AIDS. Why, Broder asks, should Human Genome Sciences profit from their hard work...