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...Idei, 59, is turning Sony back into a titan. In recent months, the company has unveiled such digital products as video and still cameras, mobile phones and a video Walkman. In March it will sell its own dvd player, to be followed by a multimedia home computer. Despite its studio setbacks, Sony will put more weight on entertainment. "Our movie business will be very important for the future of Sony," Idei says. "We will integrate electronics and entertainment into one and create a company like Warner Bros. or Disney...
...surprisingly unassuming man for such a titan among statesmen. His round, cherubic face belied a will of steel that had launched his vast land on the most remarkable transformation of the modern age. When death came to Deng Xiaoping last week, at 92, he was nearly blind, deaf, virtually invisible and the honorary chairman of only the China Bridge Association. Yet even in his long political twilight, he still cast a shadow over the nation, at once reassuring and restricting the Chinese as they march uncertainly toward the 21st century...
...question is, How quickly will Hollywood release movie titles for this costly and unproved platform? About 100 DVD titles--including, ominously, zero from home-video-titan Disney--should come out this year (a few highlights: Raging Bull, Twister, Legends of the Fall and Tony Bennett's mtv Unplugged), which is a lot fewer than this new medium needs in the long run but more support than the infant CD industry got in its rookie year, 1983, when Sony moved a mere 35,000 players. "We think DVD will ramp up more quickly," says Briesch, who predicts 10 million players sold...
Forbes. Gramm. Buchanan. It seems like a lifetime ago, but it was only last winter that we were avidly following the fortunes of Bob Dole's primary opponents. Perhaps the most quixotic was Morry Taylor, the 52-year-old president and CEO of Titan Wheel International Inc. Taylor spent more than $7 million but won only 25,000 primary and caucus votes...
...great Internet boom has been fueled by a startling business model: make a great product, then give it away. Browser titan Netscape and search-engine companies like Yahoo distribute free goods, hoping that market share will pay off when the Net supports profitable ventures...