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...their own snooping devices. Miniaturization technology and cheaper electronics have enabled thousands of Taiwanese to become amateur Big Brothers, surreptitiously videotaping employees, friends and total strangers without regard for privacy or propriety. Shopowners retailing tiny spy cameras (which cost between $30 and $400) say sales jumped tenfold after the Chu Mei-feng scandal. One of the hottest toys last Christmas was a Winnie the Pooh plush doll with cameras in its eye sockets...
...that grew ever bigger. Case in point: FIFA, the body that governs global football, says it got $79 million for the broadcasting rights for the 1998 World Cup. Would you like to wager a guess on the same rights for the 2002 World Cup? How about $761 million, a tenfold jump...
...diversions such as online gaming, wireless e-commerce and displaying Hello Kitty on their color screens. Unlike clumsy WAP services offered elsewhere in the world, DoCoMo's proprietary system was a smash, registering 120% growth in new subscribers over the half-year ending Sept. 30. DoCoMo's profits leaped tenfold in four years; for the last fiscal year, ended March 2001, it posted record earnings of $3 billion. Last year DoCoMo overtook Toyota as Japan's biggest company, measured by market capitalization. When its share price peaked last spring, DoCoMo was the 11th-largest company in the world, with enough...
Bahama island values have shot up almost tenfold since 1995. Damianos' listings range from $495,000 to $12.5 million. On 150-acre Musha Cay its owner, Miami real estate developer John Melk, has installed lush landscaping, opulent guest houses and full-time staffing. He recently began renting the place to the likes of Oprah Winfrey for $340,000 a week. For now, the only problem Bahamian real estate agents have is a shortage of available islands to sell: fewer than 50 are listed today...
That situation is starting to change. And with it, just maybe, so is TV's status as an art form. Suddenly TV's past is everywhere. The all-reruns TV Land, the offshoot of Nickelodeon's Nick at Nite franchise, has increased tenfold in the past five years by offering shows like The Donna Reed Show and The Love Boat, while the fast-growing Game Show Network revives the leisure-suited splendor of Match Game and Tattle Tales. Thanks to cable's ravenous maw for content, more diverse and complex shows are entering the rerun canon. Cartoon Network (which, like...