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Citron says he is spending at least a quarter of his time on regulation. Having run spectacularly afoul of regulators once, he has hired an army of lawyers to avoid doing so again. They must spend a lot of time telling him to zip it because Citron's fast-talking, hyperconfident style doesn't always sit so well with regulators. "It depends which ones you talk to," says Harry Weller, a partner at New Enterprise Associates, a venture-capital investor in Vonage. "He'll either drive you crazy, or you'll really like him." To neutralize Citron, the company allows...
...alone. In Northern California's Bay Area, Netflix's largest market, the company accounts for an astonishing 10% of all movie rentals. Launched in 1999, the company, based in Los Gatos, Calif., posted its first profit last year ($6.5 million) as revenues grew 78%. It has inspired copycats abroad--Zip in Canada (www.zip.ca) and Lovefilm in Britain www.lovefilm.com) Netflix skillfully exploits two defining consumer trends of the past decade: the ubiquity of the Internet, and the rocket-fueled growth of DVD players. The first commercially available DVD players hit the market only in 1997; by the end of this year...
...over his newsroom, a large, open-spaced office filled with clocks, cluttered desks, chattering televisions and people hunched intently over computers, fingers punching at keyboards. It's evening outside, and in inner-city Surry Hills young office workers gather in bars, empty energy drink cans litter footpaths, and trains zip past in bursts of sound and light. The Sydney newsroom is fired up too, but its juice isn't caffeine or alcohol: it's news...
Howard Dinin is launching a quarterly magazine late this summer, entitled 02138: Dispatches to and from the world’s most opinionated zip code. Unlike Kim’s 02138, Dinin said his magazine will not be geared to Harvard alums...
With no clear agreement to which publication the name belongs, both Kim and Dinin are hoping the other goes out of business, and that the survivor can lay sole claim to the zip code...