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...Google's agitators, the search giant continues to soar, having recently overtaken Cisco Systems, albeit briefly, as Silicon Valley's most valuable company, with a market cap approaching $160 billion. And its battles don't seem to affect Google's broader reputation: In a recent survey by research firm Universum, 5,500 MBA graduates ranked Google the most attractive of all companies to work for this year...
First countries outside the U. S. to produce good moving pictures were Germany and Russia. Most famed cinema company in Germany for the last 15 years has been UFA (Universum Film Akteingesellschaft), which made such famed silent pictures as The Last Laugh, Variety, The Golem (see p. 48). Most famed Russian director has been Sergei Eisenstein (Ten Days That Shook the World, Potemkin), who four years ago spent two years producing Thunder Over Mexico. Last week, UFA and Director Eisenstein, neither of whom has been much in the U. S. news lately, reappeared in it, both to their disadvantage...
...biggest cinema trust in Europe is Universum Film Aktiengesellschaft, known as UFA. The biggest independent telegraph agency on the continent is Telegrapher Union Internationale, or T. U. Both Ufa and T. U. belong to potent, slightly sinister Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, bristle-haired Junker. These and his famed Berlin newspapers (Der Tag, Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger) have given Dr. Hugenberg one of the most efficient machines for moulding public opinion in the world. He needed it last week, for he was attempting to force through by popular referendum a law denying Germany's War guilt, forbidding German acceptance of the Young...
Dominating Neubabelsberg, as no producer is able to dominate Hollywood, are the studios of the mighty UFA (Universum Film Aktiengesellschaft), chief among European cinema companies. Here were filmed such popular and artistic successes as Variety, The Last Laugh, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. And from Neubabelsberg, last week, there journeyed many a cinemactor, many a director, to the Berlin premiere of UFA's latest production, The Homecoming...
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