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...Bronfman last October. Seagram possessed the kind of content-producing assets that Messier's distribution channels thirsted for. Talks between the two men heated up in January following word of the AOL-Time Warner deal. But the discussions nearly collapsed last spring, before both companies settled on a stock swap that would value Seagram at about $75 a share--a roughly $25 premium above its recent price...
...ongoing effort to revitalize Loker Commons, members of the Memorial Hall advisory committee announce that they will replace Loker's flower shop and book swap with a television lounge. This decision woul would ultimately have little effect on the underground center's popularity...
...business-political nexus came up again in the federal investigation of Teamster efforts to swap contributions with the D.N.C. in the 1996 campaigns to re-elect both Clinton and union boss Ron Carey. McAuliffe had worked on a high-paying corporate issue with a political consultant who later hatched the swap plan on behalf of the Teamsters. But McAuliffe told prosecutors he had never agreed to a trade and says he has not heard from them since...
...have Vindigo, a real-time list of things to do in Manhattan. "Cool!" he said. "I've got a subway map. Want it?" So right there, on the 6:24 to Huntington, we engaged in the Palm ritual known as "beaming"--using our infrared ports to swap programs wirelessly. We both got so excited about beaming with a stranger that we made e-business cards and beamed those too. We were beaming like idiots, and no one noticed. There were at least half a dozen other people in the car lost in their own Palms...
...last spring a friend told Wasserman to "check out this MP3 thing"--referring to the digital-music format that allows people to swap their favorite tunes online. Wasserman went to the website MP3.com converted three songs he had written and recorded with Fisher into the format and uploaded them. Now, people could come to the site and download the songs for free. Fisher was about to become the biggest Internet-based band ever...