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Nevertheless, last spring a survey conducted by Yahoo! ranked Harvard 64th in the nation based on its use of computing technology. Though this survey turned out to be unreliable, at the time some saw it as a wake-up call for Harvard to expand its on-line presence...
...Gandhi-like purity. Putting the best barefoot forward in this trend was TIME's 1996 cover shot of Netscape founder Marc Andreessen displaying his pedicure-needy toes. Other celebrities who have recently unshod for the camera: Harrison Ford and Donald Trump (PEOPLE), Jackie Chan and Matthew McConaughey (GQ) and Yahoo! co-founder David Filo (Newsweek...
Excite and Yahoo! May sound like the happiest places on the Web, but their party is about to get crashed. For more than six months, a team at Microsoft has been working on its own search engine/-directory, code-named Yukon. The company should have a beta version up by October, with a launch date of January. Yukon will most probably be released directly on the Web, not on MSN, the company's members-only Net service meant to compete with AOL. Rumors of BILL GATES' foray into the Web's most popular genre have been floating around Silicon Valley...
High-tech wunderkinder, such as Yahoo! Web-search founders Jerry Yang, 28, and David Filo, 31, are role models because of their affinity for risk and their entrepreneurial spirit. Some advertisers have caught on. Two years ago Prudential replaced its longtime slogan "Get a Piece of the Rock," with the more enterprising "Be Your Own Rock." As the Dream study describes it, this is the new "generation on the make." While interest in corporate careers is sliding, business schools have expanded their courses in entrepreneurialism. A recent University of Michigan study found that 25-to-34-year-olds are trying...
When an April survey by the Yahoo! Internet search engine ranked colleges on effective use of the Internet for educational purposes, it put Harvard 64th out of 100 schools. Yale and Princeton were once again placed above Harvard. Princeton finished 12th and Yale finished 60th [opponents of rankings complained that the methodology for compiling data was not rigorous...