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Riding on his success in last year's $50K entrepreneurship competition at MIT, Favarola has taken a leave of absence from Harvard to manage his startup company. The company plans to develop and market the display technology for military, medical and entertainment applications...
...Methods of paper distribution will change. With increased personalization of newspapers, distribution will become more costly. Newsprint papers will probably still exist and individual copies will still be sold at central locations. However, personalized newspapers sent electronically to households and printed within the home will develop. Startup services like InfoBeat and Point-Cast will work with and compete with major-metro dailies to provide such services...
...Macintosh, for instance, some programs add new extensions to the System Folder. While an extension by itself is a small file, each one gets run by the system at startup, forcing you to wait impatiently while several rows of icons fill the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen...
Actually, the film cost a thrifty $50 million; the $2.7 billion is for the startup of the multimedia company that Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen created in 1994. But since DreamWorks has been on the pokey side delivering boffo product from its TV and music divisions, the release of The Peacemaker has sparked anxious anticipation. Shouldn't the studio's first film, like the opening bars of a symphony, make a statement about the outfit's ambitions...
...winner will have the opportunity to spend spring break 1998 developing a formal business plan and may receive an additional $10,000 in startup capital, at the discretion of a collection of companies, which are both covering the cost of and judging the competition...