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...both sides in what is now known as the bankers' war to cool it, the war has instead heated up. Last week came news that one of the warring oligarchs had been questioned by Interior Ministry investigators and that one of his Russian-American associates had had his Russian visa confiscated as he left Moscow and had been placed on a list of immigration "undesirables...
...license. With Hilton as a partner, Johnson plans to open a $200 million SoundStage Hotel and Casino. Hilton will run the operations while BET enlists top black entertainment. There are also MSBET, the company's Website venture with Microsoft; a line of clothing launched in February; and a BET Visa card. Johnson may even try to market home mortgages under the BET brand...
...some Website banner ad invites you to "Click Here" to learn more about "Blah, blah, blah," and you think, "Not even if they paid me." Are you sure? What if reading a sales brochure, filling out a survey or making a purchase actually paid down the balance on your VISA card...
CyberGold, based in Berkeley, Calif., has spent the past year creating what CEO Nat Goldhaber calls "the first market for human attention," offering Web surfers CyberGold "coins" that can be transferred into their bank account, turned into the online currency Cybercash, or, as of this week, credited to their VISA balance...
...rewards for obeying CyberGold marketers range from 50[cents] (for, say, accepting two free issues of Wired magazine) to $5 (for letting a company called Atrieva back up your hard disk), with larger prizes on the way. Moving your winnings to your bank or VISA card, though, requires a password and a valid address, phone number and E-mail logon--safeguards that, along with the fact that each user can win a given reward only once, should prevent tech-heads from hacking the system. Such security will be crucial to Goldhaber's goal of making CyberGold central to the world...