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...Internet gambling illegal, period. And nearly unstoppable. The DOJ admits that it faces hurdles in bringing to heel companies not based in the U.S. But it has pressured credit-card companies to reject gaming-related transactions and "urged" Internet providers and radio stations not to air online-gambling ads. Yahoo! and Viacom's Infinity Broadcasting are just some of those that are complying rather than cross the feds...
...Daver worked closely with Sun's COO Ed Zander and helped position and brand the Solaris product line. Next, she became vice president of corporate communications and investor relations at gamemaker 3DO.After that, she served as vice president of marketing and investor relations at search pioneer Inktomi, acquired by Yahoo. At Inktomi, Daver helped build the company's marketing group, brand identity, and guided the company's public offering and buyout...
...investors and expresses it as stock prices. Prediction markets now let people bet on everything from sports scores to election results to the expected capture of al-Qaeda bigwig Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. Some of the best of those online markets: the Hollywood Stock Exchange, the Iowa Electronic Markets, Yahoo's Tech Buzz Game and PublicGyan. InTrade, run by the Trade Exchange Network, an Irish firm, cleared 50,000 contracts last month (including 10% odds that al-Zarqawi will be caught in 2005). "There's a tremendous demand for prediction," says Justin Wolfers, a markets expert at the University...
Over the next five days, as other NBA teams prepped for the season, Katrina overwhelmed the Hornets' business plans. The team set up a Yahoo! site to ascertain if workers were alive. Martin's father, 78 years old and eight months past triple-bypass surgery, had refused to leave his home. He was now missing, and Martin feared the worst. By Friday, Sept. 2, Mott located everyone. Martin found his dad in an Austin, Texas, shelter; he had spent three days in the squalid Superdome...
...work with Yahoo!, Google, AOL, Time Warner and Comcast. [Younger] consumers are very driven by the media functionality that will be delivered to those devices. With Apple, we worked hard to figure out how to integrate more closely into their technology. We have looked at partnering with them in other ways too, and we have a good relationship. So there are opportunities there...