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...company’s first product is an injection-based pet sterilization system that avoids the need for surgery. The idea for the system came from a concept that Acuta’s organizers studied in Engineering Sciences 143, a class that teaches how to develop a biotech start-up firm...
...residential gateway and introducing devices that would take advantage of it. Sony makes a digital TV set-top box with a built-in cable modem for Cablevision. Last November Sony unveiled its new WEGA TV, which can download programs from a wireless network hub. In January, Moxi Digital, a start-up, unveiled the Moxi Media Center, a network-ready set-top box with a built-in personal video recorder (think TiVo), DVD player, MP3 jukebox and a receiver for cable or satellite TV. EchoStar is expected to be the first dealer to distribute it later this year...
...consumers are creating companies. Domestic spending is helping make the Korean business sector more diverse, by spawning start-up enterprises in the technology and service industries. High-tech alone now contributes 15% of GDP, up from less than 8% in 1997. For a quick tour of the new economic landscape, log on to the Internet and check out www.freechal.com. One of the Web portal's hottest products are avatars, digital cartoon characters that stand in for real people in Internet chat rooms. Freechal started charging for avatars last June. Already the company has captured some 110,000 Korean customers...
...broadcasters of Chinese-language television programming. The only question, says Tom.com chief executive Sing Wang, is "whether we will become the largest Chinese media group or the largest Chinese media group that is ultimately part of an even greater media group. We are serious. We are not some start-up experiment...
...Start-up they certainly are not. Li's goal is to pull in a sizeable chunk of the $40 billion that is spent each year on Chinese-language advertising by building a cross-media, cross-strait platform?a one-stop shop that can offer ad space on websites and television, and in magazines and newspapers that serve audiences both in Taiwan and on the mainland. Currently missing from the equation: production facilities and broadcasters such as TV stations or cable-TV networks, which take the biggest chunk of advertising spending in China. While Tom.com produces a daily sports program that...