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Re: Microsoft, B.C.

Interestingly, if MSFT moves to Vancouver it may become a whole lot harder to retain development/engineering talent in the area in the short term. This will deeply hurt the startup community that is just barely getting going there, I think. Long term, it could be...

Fwd: [Red Herring] Microsoft is calling you

As with everything else, Microsoft is still pursuing a strategy to embed all communications into the desktop PC. This will be their undoing. PC-based communications management is errant as a go-to-market strategy, doing ANYTHING on the PC (especially with Windows and...

FashionMall.com buys Boo.com

Some quick math: Cash Raised: $135 million Cash on Hand 5/15: $743,400 Debt on 5/15: $25 million Sales FY 99 and FY 00: $4 million Sale of Intellectual Property: $375,000 Sale of Core Assets: $(2 million maybe?)...

Fwd: 40X five year email volume growth

>X-Sender: rohit [at] 128.195.1 [dot] 70 (Unverified) >Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 21:10:35 -0700 >To: FoRK [at] xent [dot] com >From: Rohit Khare >Subject: 40X five year email volume growth > > >* Drowning In Email Success? — That could be what’s in store for...

Land Rover Defender 90s Are Coming Back to North America

Phew! I almost bought one this week for $39,000. They used to sell brand new for under $30,000 in the US but since they stopped importing them in 1997 they’ve become collector’s items. Looks like the bottom will be dropping out of the used D-90 market...

Rethinking the Economics of Immigration

>Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:52:28 -0700 >To: FoRK >Subject: [NYT] Rethinking the Economics of Immigration > >One of the best articles about immigration, H1B, and Greencards that I have >seen in a long time. > >-Joe >...