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...process and entirely without demonstration of probable cause bring to the surface personal details which are at best humiliating and at worst could do you long term harm. This isn’t all just theory, either: despite fervent efforts by the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Yahoo! has, for example, responded to a number of subpoena requests by corporations for the names of employees who had been criticizing company management pseudonymously on stock market discussion boards...
...Many would-be investors also griped that they had too little information to make a buying decision. Brin and Page offered precious few details as to how the cash injection would be invested or how the company would fend off rivals like Yahoo! Instead, the founders simply asked prospective buyers to ?trust us.? In a post-Enron world, could someone really make trust a central investment criterion...
...Sidekick II, unveiled last week and on sale this fall for $299, keeps the same basic shape but improves on the original in several ways, including a built-in digital camera with flash, a sharper display and a better speaker design. It comes preloaded with AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo Instant Messenger. Although this version is slimmer than the original, it's slightly longer and weighs about the same. Another thing that has stayed the same is the price. Monthly fees are $20 plus the cost of your TMobile calling plan...
...Page and Brin are trying to scare away those in search of a one-day profit--by snapping up shares in the IPO at a low price and selling them as soon as the price jumps--or they want the company to be valued as highly as longtime rival Yahoo (which currently beats Google in total profits, as well as quarterly growth). "Either way," says Mark Mahaney, San Francisco analyst for American Technology Research, "this is a real case of Buyer, beware...
...start of actual trading. Still, some investors will be winners in any event. Google employees stand to make an average of $2.8 million at the estimated share price. Page and Brin themselves are set to make a one-day profit of $130 million each. Another big winner: Yahoo, which invested early in its rival and now has $67 million worth of options. --By Chris Taylor