Pivotal Software, a Vancouver-based CRM company that had some success in the Enterprise market, hitched their wagon to a star: Microsoft. Now, normal logic would imply that this is a business strategy worthy of praise in any case, unless of course you are dealing with...
Intertainer Shuts Down — Whither VOD? VentureReporter.net Friday, October 18, 2002, 7:10 PM ET by Ben Fritz Intertainer, the dominant player in the Internet video-on-demand (VOD) space, has shut its doors, most likely for good. The L.A.-based company raised...
In the mid- to late- nineties, as we all know, incumbents and competitors built millions of miles of redundant fiber optic cable, thinking that the opportunities to transit data and voice traffic would represent huge growth in the industry. But one thing seized up:...
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story22726 Yes, we need a ‘regime change’ in this rogue state… Its government has no majority. It refuses arms monitoring. Its opponents are locked up without trial Adrian Hamilton 09 August 2002 The idea that a...
http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3343817.html Teledesic shuts down, dimming a dream Helen Jung Associated Press Published Oct 7, 2002 NET07 Envisioned by cellular pioneer Craig McCaw, backed by Bill Gates — and financed in part by their bottomless wealth...
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