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...team, for its part, credits that rejuvenation in large part to the loud support exhibited by Harvard’s women’s ice hockey team, which made the trek to Rhode Island to help negate the hostile Bears fans on Brown’s Warner Roof...
...Equinox gym in the new Time Warner Center in New York City inaugurated E, a posh $24,000-a-year facility for 200 invitation-only guests; Casa Casuarina--formerly Gianni Versace's home in South Beach--is set to become a members-only club; the British concierge service Quintessentially is opening an outpost in Miami following its recent launches in South Africa and Beijing; and in Tokyo individuals with assets of more than $920,000 can hire celebrity sushi chefs and geishas for private parties through Club Concierge. In a competitive social and economic environment, trading up--whether...
...travel industry is cashing in on the trend too. For a one-time deposit of $375,000 and annual fees of up to $25,000, Exclusive Resorts--launched in 2002 and 50% owned by former AOL Time Warner chairman Steve Case--invites members to vacation in multimillion-dollar homes in more than 25 destinations around the world. The response has been tremendous: in the past year, the number of members has gone from fewer than 100 to more than...
...growth of paid digital-downloading sites will eventually lead to a turnaround in the slumping Asia-Pacific music market; by 2008, they expect online music sales to break $500 million, 8% of the total market. "The fear of piracy still exists," says Jon Simon, head of new media for Warner Music Asia-Pacific. "But I think that fear every day becomes more an opportunity than one of loathing." When that happens, all those cute iPods will be good for more than just looking good...
Federal regulators may turn out to be the least of Vonage's challenges. AT&T launched its competing CallVantage service in March, Verizon rolled out VoiceWing in July, and Comcast and Time Warner Cable plan to have their offerings by the end of the year. These companies will seek to exploit Vonage's Achilles' heel. Because Vonage relies on the public Internet to route its calls, it cannot completely control traffic and its effect on call quality, says Lisa Pierce, an analyst at Forrester Research. AT&T, on the other hand, has its own network. Over time, she says, Vonage...