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...most dotcoms, and high-flying Internet IPOs are practically a distant memory. Like his fellow VC wannabes, from buyout king Henry Kravis to anonymous Florida retirees, Newman isn't about to let a little thing like a bear market crush his dreams of jump-starting the next Yahoo and riding it to the bank. Never mind that the vast majority of VC bets have failed or that inexperienced players may have a tough time picking winners in a choppy market...
...WHEELS GO Squat two-seat roadsters will lure the post-Yahoo generation. This concept car from GM, above, is based on new plastics that will make tomorrow's cars completely recyclable. Will they have a steering wheel or fly-by-wire joysticks...
...WEIRD: For a heady dose of silliness, check out useless knowledge.com a site where you'll get a daily quote, definitions for obscure words and answers to such penetrating questions as "What is quicksand?" and "Who invented the pencil?" A Yahoo-like index of arcana, absolutetrivia. com neatly organizes the world's minutiae, from crazy laws and criminals to an index of phobias. Both sites have weekly e-mail newsletters--handy for those who want their Net dalliances disguised as serious work memos...
...these battles are particularly high stakes. In one, AOL, Yahoo, Excite@Home and others are fighting to become the dominant "mobile portal"--the first screen that wireless Internet users land on. The winner has the potential to be the Yahoo of the wireless age once the number of people connecting to the Internet wirelessly exceeds the number connecting through wires...
...more incestuous - and it's the buzzword at all the L.A. hotspots. It's gotten to be such a hot term in the industry that Bollywood "news areas" are turning up all over the web - it even has its own section next to Reuters and the Associated Press on Yahoo Entertainment News. Andrew Lloyd Webber, as I reported a few weeks back, is working on an epic Bollywood musical; agents are trying to lure Bollywood stars; producers at a couple of major studios are even talking possible releases of subtitled Hindi musicals. I could give you a quick guide...