Word: therings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The woman has been waiting under the baobab tree for maybe two days. The sun burns through the branches of the tree that the locals say God grew upside down because it looks as if its roots are on top. She has two children with her, and they play in...
The buyer is a diamond dealer, registered with the Zambian government. He will drive back across the border where there is no border, just thick bush, scrubland and cattle trails. Even if he passes one of the rare police posts, he will just drive through and wave to the guards...
Softbank's basic plan is simple: invest early and often. By buying more tickets in the e-commerce game than anyone else, the company improves its chances of winning the lottery--even if there is a massive shakeout. In effect, Citizen Son is establishing the world's first virtual conglomerate...
In a world where Microsoft is under attack for it and America Online is envied for it, size matters, and today nobody owns more real estate on the Internet than Son. His holding company, Softbank, based in Tokyo, has a stake in more e-businesses in more countries than any...
Still, it wasn't until after he signed a deal to represent hardware maker Cisco Systems in Japan in 1993 that Son's grand Internet vision began to fall into place. "When you have the railroad being laid, you can see the train, you start to imagine the passengers, and...