Industry View; The inspiration, crazy excitement -- and job volatility -- of an Internet start-up venture.
Date: 17 January 2000
By Lisa Napoli
Lisa Napoli
Lisa Napoli (Industry View) article, noting AOL-Time Warner merger, traces promising start and eventual demise of Delphi Internet, where she worked as director of content development in 1995--a time when surfing the Web was coming into its own; says what looked to be promising future, when Delphi was acquired by Rupert Murdoch's New Corp that year, became undone when MCI agreed to invest $1 billion in News Corp that spring; says MCI soured on Delphi relationship and struck an Internet backbone deal with Microsoft, which led to demise of Delphi; photo of Murdoch and MCI chairman Bert C Roberts Jr in 1995 (M)
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. . . And on One Block, a Battle for Readers
Date: 16 January 2000
By Farrin Jacobs
Farrin Jacobs
Article on battle brewing between Global Ink and Universal News Cafe, magazine stores on opposite sides of Broadway between 111th and 112th Streets, NYC; photos (M)
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Media Talk; Isuzu Suit Raises First Amendment Concerns
Date: 17 January 2000
By Christian Berthelsen
Christian Berthelsen
Several newspapers and magazines are raising concerns about Isuzu Motors' suit brought against Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, citing First Amendment implications; Isuzu charges Consumers Union rigged test reports to ensure that two Trooper models and twin model manufactured for Acura would tip on two wheels (S)
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Acquisition by I.B.M.
Date: 17 January 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
International Business Machines Corp to buy Accessible Software Inc for more than $75 million (S)
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Another Sizzling Year
Date: 16 January 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Janus Capital Corp retains its position as the top performer among the 10 biggest fund companies in 1999 (S)
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Redemptions at Tiger
Date: 16 January 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Net assets of Tiger Management fall from about $15 billion to about $7 billion in 1999, a year in which the fund lost about 19 percent; Julian Robertson, fund manager, tells investors that reason does not prevail in this market; photo (S)
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For the Press to Be Free
Date: 17 January 2000
Owen V Johnson letter replies to Jan 14 Op-Ed by Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach, saying the maintenance of an independent news media lies in the hearts and minds of individual journalists, not in the shape of the media's ownership
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 16 January 2000
INTERNATIONAL 3-13 Golan Heights Facing An Uncertain Future The revival of the Israeli-Syrian peace effort after a nearly four-year stalemate has put the Golan Heights in a state of flux. Some Israeli settlers are digging in their heels, while others have started to think about what it would it take to dismantle three decades of Israeli life in the Golan Heights. 1 War Crimes Suspect Murdered Zeljko Raznatovic, known as Arkan, a Serbian paramilitary leader wanted on war crimes charges in the Bosnian and Croatian wars, was shot and killed in the lobby of the Intercontinental Hotel in Belgrade. 1
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 17 January 2000
INTERNATIONAL A3-10 Chilean Socialists Triumph In Presidential Election Ricardo Lagos won a narrow victory over Joaquin Lavin to become the first Socialist president of Chile since President Salvador Allende Gossens was overthrown in 1973. With 99.75 percent of the vote in, Mr. Lagos led Mr. Lavin, a former aide to Gen. Augusto Pinochet, by 51.32 percent to 48.68 percent. A1
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Diallo's Parents Plan To Lobby in Washington
Date: 17 January 2000
Rev Al Sharpton and parents of Amadou Diallo will meet with Justice Department officials to express their objections to the moving trial of four police officers charged with his murder from Bronx to Albany (S)
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