Word: revolutionizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is not, of course, simply a story of business combinations. The Internet plays a leading role as well, providing the technology that makes competition possible. The relevant hocus-pocus is the "Internet protocol," which is not the title of a Robert Ludlum novel but is rather a geeky delight...
Occasionally, conservatism is the best bet. As the first digital TVs roll out next year, for instance, their four-figure price tags will entice only cost-be-damned hobbyists. The rest of us will buy analog sets with built-in digital converters and wait for steep markdowns on those high...
There are skeptics. Stephen Roach, chief global economist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, suspects that e-commerce is being oversold, though he admits it's growing rapidly. "I question if it'll ever be big." He is right when he notes that e-commerce is no more than 1% of...
But for hundreds of front-line businesses, this cerebral revolution has become very real. And very unpleasant. Talk to the folks at 230-year-old Encyclopaedia Britannica, which two years ago dismissed its entire home sales force in North America after the arrival of the Internet at $8.50 a month...
[WHAT HAPPENED] His army was smashed at Saratoga, the pivotal battle of the Revolution.