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...realize its vision. The company has a war chest for acquisitions; Hutchison Whampoa granted Tom.com a loan of more than $100 million late last year. Previously dismissive bankers now believe that the company's target of achieving a half billion dollars in annual revenue by 2004 (a large sum by the standards of Asia's fractured media industry) can be met. "This is a very hot company," says an analyst at one investment house. "The European and American banks are telling their people to watch it closely." Tom.com has been one of Asia's best performing stocks of late...
...when it comes to slipping small animals into the luge run--promise to be severely tested. Blame escalating commercialism and its henchman, dollar power. Item: tiny Hindu Kush hires away the legendary snowshoe-warping coach of a major European cheating team for an estimated $1 million, cash--a staggering sum, even if the bills were counterfeit. Nor should the astonishing recent advances in technique be discounted. "Cheating is a lot more sophisticated now than in the old days," marvels one grizzled sleazeball. "Back then a suitcase full of cash and a job for somebody's idiot nephew could get your...
...word of mouth and adventurous late-night use of KaZaA than any kind of hostile takeover. Even following the recent MTV-manufactured “return to rock,” the American airwaves remain inaccessible to British bands and cluttered with the bratty, pseudo-garage sounds of Sum 41, or the glam pop-rock of Nickelback and Creed...
According to HSPDS former president Allon S. Kedem ’02, HSPDS also earns a sum equivalent to 60 percent of its annual expenses through the tournament—but this only amounts to approximately...
...those who know Redd best, her appearance on the show in the first place is much more surprising than the fact that she took home such a hefty sum of money. Redd says she actually hates game shows and never watches them. But the combination of her brother’s love for “Millionaire,” her own class-free Friday schedule and pure boredom led her to the Boston “Millionaire” auditions late last year. After a trivia quiz and quick interview, she was notified that she had been accepted onto...