Word: siliconing
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...almost flawlessly on stage. This may sound terribly rockist, but you just don’t expect to find bass chops as funky as Harris’ or limb-cracking beats like those meted out by drummer Danny Seim in a band whose recorded output relies so heavily on silicon...
...growing market. For better or worse, the Internet is filled with bright, well-educated, upwardly mobile people -- a demographic that makes it particularly attractive to those with things to sell. And while the green-card lawyers were creating a diversion, hundreds of businesses were quietly staking out the territory. Silicon Graphics, a computer manufacturer, uses the Internet to distribute software and answer customer questions. Joe Boxer, a San Francisco design firm that makes colorful and offbeat men's briefs, invites customers to submit "underwear stories" to its Internet address joeboxer.com...
Yahoo!'s Apprentice victory broke new ground in the awkward relationship between Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Internet companies have long wanted to put entertainment content online, but fear of piracy, illegal downloading and disruption of their revenue model have so far made the studios hold on tightly to their product. Semel, who was brought in to run Yahoo! after 30 years in Hollywood, is determined to change that. In November he hired Lloyd Braun, the former chairman of ABC Entertainment who greenlighted shows like Desperate Housewives and Lost and earlier helped develop The Sopranos for HBO, to head...
...Semel may be ideally suited to bringing Silicon Valley and Hollywoodtogether. Soft-spoken and unassuming, Semel, along with fellow former Warner Bros. co- chairman Bob Daly, is credited with helping expand Warner Bros. into a highly profitable business, in part by ratcheting up movie-related merchandising and overseeing hits like ER and Friends on TV and movies like Batman, Chariots of Fire and The Matrix. He carefully maintains the connections he made at Warner, and though he now works out of Yahoo!'s Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters in Silicon Valley during the week, his home is in Bel Air, where...
...WORKING IN SILICON VALLEY DIFFERENT FROM HOLLYWOOD...