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...money through their foundation, but Microsoft, the company he co-founded, remains a corporation whose product is no better than it has to be, and Microsoft is being sued for pursuing monopolistic business practices. That too should be included as part of Bill Gates' story. Isabel Best Nyon, Switzerland...
...Journal of Pathology suggested that as many as 3,800 Britons could be unknowingly harboring variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease. The government estimates that 141 people have died from vCJD since the illness was identified in 1995. Air of Regret SWITZERLAND The government apologized to Russia as investigators concluded that Swiss air traffic control problems were partly to blame when a Russian passenger jet and a DHL cargo plane collided over Germany in July 2002, killing 71. The Russian crew heeded instructions from an air traffic controller that took them into the cargo...
...euro zone's 50 biggest public companies have been replaced, with almost half leaving under pressure. (That number doesn't include a cluster of large British, Swiss and Swedish firms where heads have also rolled.) Those include financial giants like Germany's Allianz and Credit Suisse of Switzerland; media titans, such as France's Vivendi Universal and Germany's Bertelsmann; and a bevy of telecom behemoths, such as France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and Britain's Cable & Wireless...
...Internet hosting business, but had been reluctant to sell when they didn't pan out. At ailing insurer Royal & Sun Alliance, Andy Haste, 41, the CEO who took over last year, wasted little time in raising $1.8 billion in fresh capital and cutting 20,000 jobs. In Switzerland, Credit Suisse stock has risen about 40%, easily outperforming most rivals, since the bank ditched Lukas Muhlemann at the beginning of last year and replaced him with two bank veterans, Oswald Grubel and John Mack. They quickly took major write-offs to deal with festering operational troubles. The jury remains...
...most successful of the Olympic-tech companies is Switzerland-based Dartfish, whose training software, including Dartswim, is used by athletes in more than 20 countries, including Germany, Thailand and Venezuela. In the U.S., some two dozen Olympic sports use Dartfish. The technology helped athletes worldwide win 45 medals in the 2002 Winter Games, according to Victor Bergonzoli, general manager of the company's U.S. unit. "There are about half a dozen similar programs," says Mike Leigh, a technologist for the U.S. Olympic Committee in Colorado Springs, Colo., who has worked in sports science for 20 years. "But none works better...