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Poor Tokyo can't get a break. In a recent survey, it kicked Hong Kong out of the top spot on Mercer Human Resource Consulting's list of the most expensive cities. (New York City slid into a thrifty 10th place, thanks to the weak dollar.) Tokyo also ranked as least popular in a new survey by consultancy Christian & Timbers, which asked about executives' attitudes toward six financial centers. (Hong Kong and Beijing were given a pass because of SARS.) Here are the top six from each list...
...stocks moved higher. Demand is encouragingly strong for Internet service, mobile phones and video games. But most of the tech sector remains deep in its shake-out phase, which means that only a relative few resilient players continue to deliver products and services--and profits. This year TIME's survey of global tech leaders salutes the survivors, executives who have made it through the punishment and come out with their businesses not just intact but thriving. Their tales of creative persistence may help inspire the rest of the tech sector to get through the century's next 97 years...
...when banks and stores were unrolling cybershops, Nicko, far right, and Alex, Ncipher's CTO and CEO, respectively, saw that existing encryption technology was not up to the task. And much of it still isn't, even though IT security is a $20 billion business. In a recent survey by Deloitte & Touche, 39% of financial firms questioned said their computer systems had been compromised in the past year; 45% expect to invest in the kind of encryption technology made by Ncipher in the next 18 months. "My taxi-driver test has changed," says Alex. "Six years ago, when I said...
...lives on because, as with sex, anticipation often beats act, all that foreplay with brochures, bookings, tickets, servicing the car and the children's orthodontics, packing suitcases, trying to get into last year's bathing suit and, above all, counting down the days. But escaping can be stressful. A survey published this week by the British recruitment firm Reed found that 22% of 5,000 British workers said they suffer a syndrome Reed calls "Pre-Holiday Stress," that sense of panic caused by trying to get everything in order before leaving. U.K. workers put in an average of nine hours...
...It’s perceived that way,” she said. “I’m not sure that it really is. We did a survey of who used it, and approximately half of those who use it are undergraduates...