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...year such games take off, if the business activity of the past few weeks is any indication. Total Entertainment Network (TEN), one of the leaders in the field, unveiled its long-awaited commercial online service two weeks ago and last week announced that it would add Quake to its roster of games. Meanwhile, TEN's chief competitors--Mpath and Engage--are testing services that they expect to be fully operational this month. A fourth competitor, Sendai, has just been purchased by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. All four companies hope to make a killing, or at least a decent living...
...competition. AOL, for instance, with more than 6 million subscribers, is revamping its popular Games Channel, which already offers scores of multiplayer games, from strategy and combat games like Air Warriors to classics like chess and Trivial Pursuit, and recently purchased inn to add to its gaming roster. "We're focusing on games that are designed specifically for an online environment," says Lawrence Schick, AOL's general manager for games. "We're really developing a community...
Inevitably, the company will have company. CyberCash launches CyberCoins with a respectable roster of partners: some 30 Web hosting companies will offer CyberCash to their client sites, and by year's end CyberCash expects about 100 Web sites to take them up on it. Initially six banks will offer electronic wallets to their customers, including the Charlotte, North Carolina-based First Union, the nation's sixth largest. "There's an obvious niche for 'coin' payments on the Internet," says Parker Foley, First Union's director of electronic commerce. "CyberCash is the first company to have their model together...
Cleary and Henry promised that Harvard would not take measures on behalf of Title IX that would cut or put minimum roster sizes on men's teams, actions that many other universities have done to make the ratio of male to female athletes more closely resemble the student body ratio...
...about money--Knight is the head of Death Row Records, a hip-hop record label that generated $100 million in revenue last year. They talk about violence--Knight, a 6-ft. 4-in., 315-lb. former pro-football player, is an intimidating figure to some--and Death Row, whose roster of artists includes Snoop Doggy Dogg, is a driving force in the controversial genre of gangsta rap. Knight was behind the wheel of the BMW in which Tupac Shakur, a rapper on his label, was riding when he was fatally shot on Sept. 7 in Las Vegas...