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...quest to beat out HD DVD as the go-to high-definition format, Sony will start selling a $599 Blu-ray player this summer, a big markdown from the $999 version currently for sale...
Once you've sold a company for $2.6 billion, life on the beach can be tempting, particularly if you're Scandinavian. But for dotcom veterans Janus Friis, 30, and Niklas Zennstrom, 40, whose sale of Skype to eBay rocketed them toward Gatesian wealth, the lure of a Great Leap Backward has proved stronger than sun and sand. Having launched Kazaa, one of the first music-file-sharing networks, in 2001 and Skype, the first big Internet-powered phone service, in 2003, the duo began work a year ago on a secret venture dubbed the Venice Project, whose goal...
...style or my own personality, and so I gave it up completely to Valentino.” Any lingering worries that Eggers may have replaced Deng’s voice with his own are quickly dispelled by Deng, who controls all of the proceeds from the sale of “What is the What” and plans to use them to fund the construction of schools and libraries in the Sudan. He described a long collaborative process of talking, writing, editing, and re-writing. “I’ve read it so many times...
...with the masseuses. In October 2005 police issued a warrant to search the premises and arrested Purdy, according to the report. A follow-up investigation revealed that Purdy knew the masseuses were offering sexual favors to customers for money, and was receiving a share of the profits from the sale of “extras.” The defendant did not testify during the trial, according to a statement written by J. Daniel Silverman, his attorney. Silverman filed a Motion for a Required Finding of Not Guilty on February 23 on Purdy’s behalf. According to Lerner...
...months. The Seattle Museum of Art has had such a great response to its leasing program that it recently moved its leasing gallery from inside the museum to a larger, more prominent location a block away. Last month 75% of its transactions were rentals as opposed to sales. Because the program offers three-month leases at 9% of the purchase price, the gallery has seen a wide variety of renters, from art students leasing their professors' works to beginning collectors and, increasingly, home stagers?people hired to spruce up a house on the market to increase its chances for sale...