15 January 2001
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The Morning News
12 January 2001
AOL-TW is approved.Taking the offensive against offensive cell phone users.Napster goes to bed with CDNow."Ginger" is paid $250K for her book about something.Los Alamos has a hacker inside the fold.NASA may have found the first evidence for black holes.Counter-Strike says
11 January 2001
The Psychic Friends Network is better for customer service than Microsoft.The case for Verizon: a foolish combination, or a steady business plan?Yahoo announces 10-30 percent drop in profits.What questions have disappeared from the world?'Lord of the Rings' uses the Web to build the
10 January 2001
Black, red, or titanium? Apple puts the money on black turtlenecks and titanium powerbooks.The Janus Fund has a sleazeball at the helm who pays his employees well.NYC pays $50M for 50K illegal strip searches.The Vatican puts its valuables up for sale online.Disney pays 50K to destroy
9 January 2001
Hollywood studios prepare to protect their films online.Amazon met its sales figures, but not profit margins.Time plans (again) a magazine about your life: The Internet Life.Help build the Pseudo Dictionary.Hamlet never considered his OS: Sony's net appliance chooses to Be.The Industry Standard chops
8 January 2001
Roger Black makes a move for the "renaissance" in Latin America.Should America suffer a recession, Canada and Mexico are in trouble.The Nerd and The Rock share The Stage with The X-Box.WTO-protestors hijack domains to get their point across.Carat Group, the media titan,
5 January 2001
MP3.com moves from the court to your living room.Apple, facing first loss in three years, now lives for "killer apps."What everyone wants to know: how did Amazon do this holiday?Bill Gates feels comfortable as a software architect, uneasy as a super mario.8 giants
4 January 2001
Bill Gates seen as fashion icon in South Korea.With increased popularity but decreased funding, Blogger asks for a hand-out.AT&T exposed account information for thousands of businesses.Barnes & Noble gets hot over digital books and publishes a new one by Dean Koontz.Six percent of
3 January 2001
Yahoo bans hateful material.At least 210 dot-coms closed this year.Apple makes huge price cuts as inventory piles up (buy that cube now!).AOL members spent $4.6B during the holidays.Microsoft is sued for racism by present and former black employees. [wsj]One-third of the Russian
2 January 2001
Where marketing begins: Brand Camp.Tech billionaires moved to peasant-status with NASDAQ's slide.Tech insiders sold heavy this year; Scient founder Greenberg cashed in $168M.Authors Guild upset with Amazon over new purchasing method of new books.Americans used the Web more for holiday greetings and research