25 July 2001 By The Morning News — 25 Jul 2001 With AOL's $100M investment in Amazon, it can now bid a buy-out.NYC Mayor candidate Bloomberg has resigned from four WASP clubs, as acknowledgement of "the obligations of running for public office."Credit Suisse follows Merrill in forbidding its analysts to hold stock in companies they follow.Salon.com faces NASDAQ de-listing tomorrow.Takashi Murakami gains international reknown with conceptual paintings and merchandise.Turns out Flash works very well for graphic novels: the luscious Broken Saints.Some say marketing, others say crime: IBM gets busted for spray-painting ads on public property; somehow Razorfish and Pi got away with it.The Atlantic Monthly paid Mark Twain twice as much as its other writers, and now publishes some articles on its site.
