Word: siliconing
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...sector businesses. Labor markets are even getting tight in Italy, where jobless figures have long been in double digits. "From an intelligent secretary on up, you just can't find people," gripes Alessandro Ponti, head of Zetesis, an Internet services company in northern Italy. (Those laid-off workers in Silicon Valley might consider sending their résumés to Milan.) With more Europeans working and making more money, internal consumer demand ought to help offset the weakness in exports...
...apocalypse really had that kind of high school simplicity, however, why didn't Koogle head it off sooner? After all, here is a genius hailed by e-business author Peter Cohan as "one of the few adults in Silicon Valley," a man who saw the Web's potential years ahead of most. "My hair is graying because I've seen so many business cycles," Koogle joked to TIME last October. But he also displayed alarming signs of true believerism about web advertising. Disappearing dotcoms made no difference to his bottom line, he said, since traditional companies would pick...
...hardly surprising that the proud Yahoo culture is fending off potential takeovers with a two-year $500 million stock buyback plan. That will still leave $1.5 billion in the bank, effectively buying time for the company to figure out how to make more money on its own. Certainly Silicon Valley is rooting for Yahoo to stay independent in a world increasingly dominated by the AOL-Microsoft rivalry. "They do have a certain cachet, being the last Switzerland standing," says Sinnreich. Not that cachet alone pleases Wall Street anymore. If Yahoo is going to be Swiss, it had better find some...
...players like Openwave and Infospace to voice infrastructure start-ups like Telera, TalkTwo, NetByTel and Voci, as well as equipment providers like Lucent and Nortel, are picking up the same lines. "Our 800 number is just a continuous, live beta test," says Amol Joshi, co-founder of BeVocal, a Silicon Valley start-up that partnered with Qwest Wireless to launch its own portal. "We want to be the 'Intel inside' for phone companies...
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