Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soft-spoken, quick to smile, often cloaked in a slightly rumpled golf sweater, "Masa" Son is the unlikely man who would be emperor of the Internet. He has a 300-year--yes, that's 300-year--plan to invest in so many companies on the Web that no matter what country you're in, whether you're looking for a broker or a bouquet of flowers, a car or a doctor, you'll have to enter his realm...
...shopping sites for Athlete's Foot and a host of other sporting-goods stores. And so on, to the tune of more than $40 billion in around 130 companies (even Softbank executives have trouble counting) or by various estimates, about 10% of the companies that do business on the Web. And that was yesterday...
...keiretsu, those vertically integrated manufacturing and trading cartels that gave Japan Inc. its fearsome reputation in the 1980s. Son doesn't want to own his companies outright, or to run them. He aims to gain implicit control with a 20%-to-30% stake in each and to build a web of mutual cross-investments with sales, marketing and supply ties. "I want us to be No. 1 in every area," says Son. In five years he expects the global Softbank family to grow to 780 companies...
Beauty has gone back to basics. In the U.S.'s $16 billion cosmetics industry, you don't need supermodels like Cindy Crawford. You don't need to ply customers with giveaways. And with the advent of the Web and stores like Sephora, you don't need counter space at Saks or Macy's. The business of beauty, that most undemocratic phenomenon, has been made over by boutique companies offering such offbeat products as transdermal vitamin C patches (Osmotics), Saint-John's-wort lipstick (Tony & Tina) and shimmery body powder (BeneFit...
...when Apple sent me the device, my head was filled with ideas for crazy AirPort experiments. I would download recipes in the kitchen. I would do Christmas shopping from the bathroom. And because the range of this thing is supposed to be more than 150 ft., I would Web-surf wire free while sipping a beer in the Irish pub across the street from my apartment...