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...Ford Motor Co. owns Jaguar PLC and a one-third stake in Mazda and is considering an alliance with Samsung Motors Inc. GM, still the world's largest automaker, owns Germany's Adam Opel AG, the U.K.'s Vauxhall Motor Cars Ltd., Holden's in Australia, 50% of Saab Automobile AB in Sweden and about a third of Isuzu. On top of that, GM operates a joint venture in Canada with Suzuki Motor Corp. and an assembly plant called NUMMI in California with Toyota...
...software developers who are gathered at the annual JavaOne conference in San Francisco will hear that Sun is releasing its long-promised JavaStation this Thursday. The sleek, stripped-down machine, which grabs from the networks whatever programs and files it needs, has attracted early corporate adopters like Saab and Allied Signal. How wide a market it will reach with a price tag north of $700, however, remains to be seen, especially with bare-bones PCs available at the same price...
...giant agencies of Los Angeles or Chicago. Instead they labor in, of all places, Richmond, Va. Situated among tobacco warehouses and antiques stores, the Martin Agency was once known for regional work, such as its "Virginia is for lovers" campaign. But recently Martin snagged a $55 million account for Saab cars away from a New York City agency; Coca-Cola is another client. Billings are up 25%, to $355 million. Drawls Mike Hughes, the agency's soft-spoken creative director: "Maybe we're just more wide-eyed and in touch with Middle America right here in Richmond...
...blossomed in the past year on the World Wide Web, the hot new multimedia hangout on the Internet. With edgy graphics and clever first-person writing, webzines are attracting a small but fiercely loyal readership. They are also starting to attract something even more important: good old-fashioned advertising. Saab, IBM, MasterCard and clear-beer Zima are among the sponsors whose winking logos bedizen every screenful of Word. And the stimulus of these ad dollars has encouraged even more publishers to come online...
...points in the day, I was scared. Likewhen the cattle truck almost ran over 35 littlegirls in black jumpsuits. Like when I was so closeto the deity's Saab, an assassin could have missedher and hit me instead. Like when the reporterfrom the Associated Press growled at me for askingMs. Pfeiffer about her social responsibilities.But, she tells me, it's okay to be scared. Somethings are just meant to be entertaining, like thesurreal circus that descended onto Harvard Squareto give Michelle Pfeiffer a shiny brass...