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...hearing much out of the Boston-based company known as Streamline these days, but that doesn't mean they're not out to change the world. They're in one of those pre-IPO quiet periods, poised to rake in around $69 million, if all goes according to plan. And if the future goes according to Streamline's plan, the end of offline shopping is at hand, and you may never leave the house again...
...nugget of personal information could soon be up for sale to banks, mortgage lenders, car dealers and other potential creditors -- by none other than the government. The program, authorized by a little-noticed state law passed last summer, and headlined by the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, could eventually rake $15 million into state coffers. "When the news leaked out," reports TIME Los Angeles correspondent Dave Jackson, "it caused an immediate backlash here." Proponents of the program point out that individuals would have to give their consent before their income information is revealed, but critics doubt the safeguards. "Recent computer...
...tails and may turn up their noses at the short-tailed sons of their practical-minded sister. So, the evolutionary strings are pulling us in two directions: Go for the geek with the Microsoft stock, says Mating Program A. No, wait, says Program B, did you see that adorable rake with the earring and the black leather blazer...
...first breakthrough came when he landed a job as secretary and telegrapher to Tom Scott, a powerful overlord of the Pennsylvania Railroad. At 23 Carnegie headed Pennsy's Pittsburgh division and began to rake in a small fortune from outside investments ranging from oil to iron bridges. When he was 33, the rich young man privately lectured himself that his continued pursuit of wealth "must degrade me beyond hope of permanent recovery." Yet he couldn't abandon the money chase. "Put all your eggs into one basket," Carnegie once advised, "and then watch that basket." For him that basket brimmed...
Apple released the Macintosh in January 1984: a tony, sophisticated computer was now available to the masses. Henceforth DOS was not merely homely, it was obsolete. But it continued to rake in money, so what if the critics hated it? In May 1990, Microsoft finally perfected its own version of Apple windows and called it Microsoft Windows 3.0--another huge hit. Now Gates really (I mean really) had it made...