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...working for Hamid Hashemi, CEO of Muvico. The Iranian immigrant began accumulating Florida cinemas in the 1980s. "I thought, What an easy business," he says. "The movies are made by someone else. You sell popcorn. Easy!" But when a major chain opened a rival screen down the street and put his first theater out of business, Hashemi realized he had to offer what the big guys didn't. "At the end of the day, you all get the same 35-mm tape," he says. "What sets you apart is how you package...
...Iran and dozens of interviews with U.S., British and Iraqi intelligence officials, as well as an Iranian agent, armed dissidents and Iraqi militia and political allies, reveals an Iranian plan for gaining influence in Iraq that began before the U.S. invaded. In their scope and ambition, Iran's activities rival those of the U.S. and its allies, especially in the south. There is a gnawing worry within some intelligence circles that the failure to counter Iranian influence may come back to haunt the U.S. and its allies, if Shi'ite factions with heavy Iranian backing eventually come to power...
...blockbuster comedy Anchorman, a local TV news team led by Will Farrell has a West Side Story-style showdown with a rival news crew in an empty parking lot. Suddenly maracas and mariachi horns announce the arrival of yet another posse. As the Spanish language news team storms in waving machetes and whips, somebody remarks, "Well, it looks like we got ourselves a bi-lingual bloodfest...
...task just got more complicated: Yahoo's intention to invest $1 billion for a 40 percent stake in eBay rival Alibaba-Taobao, a company that was already making life difficult for eBay in China, means the fight for control of the world's next great e-commerce market will be ?fierce,? as Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang acknowledged in an interview with TIME...
CNBC has a long way to go to recapture the success of its bull-market heyday. Ad revenues last year were just $140 million, vs. $383 million in 2001, reports Kagan Research. Overall ratings remain depressed, even though onetime rival CNNfn went dark last year. And a new financial channel is expected at Fox next spring, so there is a sense of urgency in the place. CNBC, a division of GE's NBC Universal, has tried everything to reinvent itself, including going Hollywood. That failed experiment led to the cancellation of prime-time shows with hosts Dennis Miller, John McEnroe...