Charles Schwab, back from the brink
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Thu Feb 23, 2006
When you think of innovators in the world of personal finance, Charles Schwab is the first name that comes to mind. The man who famously brought Wall Street back to Main Street by undercutting the big brokerage houses in the late 1970s was also one of the first to bring investing online .
A Penny Saved, a Customer Spurned
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Wed Feb 22, 2006
Dell tried it, then reversed course. Capital One gave up as well, and so did JPMorgan Chase. All came to the same conclusion about their attempts to farm out front-line customer-service jobs to outside contractors: The hidden costs far outweighed the potential savings in labor expenses.
The Ultimate Music Buff
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Wed Feb 22, 2006
The Seemingly Unsolvable Problem: As an engineering graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin in 1992, Joe Born loved the Clint Black album Killin' Time--but the CD had become scratched, causing it to skip during the song "A Better Man."
How to Find Your Angel
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Wed Feb 22, 2006
You've come up with a world-changing idea, or at least an industry-changing idea. You have a business plan. Maybe you've even written some code or built a prototype. Now all you need is those few thousand bucks--or a few tens or hundreds of thousands of bucks--to get your new venture up and running.
Target: Madison Ave.
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Wed Feb 22, 2006
She's been near the heart of the Web search business since before that business could plausibly be described as such. From 1996 to 2002, Ellen Siminoff was one of Yahoo's top executives--the woman behind the company's early investment in Google, as well as its relationship with paid-search pioneer Overture .
Can Theatres Thrive in Another Dimension?
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Wed Feb 22, 2006
With domestic movie-ticket sales off 5 percent in 2005 and theater attendance down 13 percent since 2002, maybe it's just a matter of time before all films go straight to DVD. Still, one company, Beverly Hills-based Real D, believes that the local cineplex isn't so much dead as in need of some depth.
Building Zero-G Boomtowns
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Wed Feb 22, 2006
The final frontier has been mapped out, and it's almost time to open the business district. In the next 15 years, we could see zero-G R&D labs for Big Pharma and tech companies, solar-power satellites saving Earth from fossil-fuel addiction, and sports arenas hosting events that make the X Games look tame.
Audible cranks it up
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at Business 2.0
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Wed Feb 22, 2006
Entrepreneur Donald Katz wants to do more than just make digital audiobooks. He wants to free the written word from Gutenberg's prison.
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