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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since then, it is as if Son & Co. trained a fire hose on Silicon Valley and pumped in a steady stream of cash. President Gary Rieschel figures that in 1996, with Softbank Technology Ventures still an unknown in the valley, it invested $200 million in 55 companies in four months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Masayoshi Son: Emperor of the Internet | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Even so, the scale of Softbank's ambitions could transform e-commerce. In a world where every company, every billionaire with spare change, is forming an Internet investment arm, the competition for start-up dollars is shifting into a battle over who gets to invest in the next hot company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Masayoshi Son: Emperor of the Internet | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Such is the message Bove hopes to spread to America this week. He claims a sense of kinship with his Yankee counterparts, noting that a group of American farmers contributed $5,000 toward paying his bail after the McDonald's incident. "There are more similarities than differences between us," he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Fries Saboteur | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

To call mathematics a fin-de-siecle craze would be a bit of an exaggeration, but there is something remarkable about how the most arcane of academic disciplines has finally implanted itself firmly in popular culture. The trend began in 1994 when Princeton University's Andrew Wiles proved Fermat's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Sexy Is Chalk Dust? | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Hoping to cash in further on math mania, this publishing season brings not one but two books about zero. You have to admire the publishers for starting at the beginning of the number line--and setting themselves up for infinitely many predictable sequels--but is there really that much to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Sexy Is Chalk Dust? | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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