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...whether Google's IPO can on its own spark innovation or even inflate another bubble, anything is possible - that's probably the biggest moral of the dotcom story. But things have changed in the short period since the downturn. For one thing, companies are now accounting for stock options as expenses. Consequently, more and more corporations are abandoning a method of compensation that effectively let talented workers place big bets with their careers. Without stock options, we might not see the same level of frenzied startup activity prevalent during the late 1990s. The other big difference is that many...
...machine doing the scouring, but "there is a guaranteed segment of consumers who will be turned off by this," says Omwando. Google is also late to the game. Almost two-thirds of all Internet users in Europe , for instance, already have two or more e-mail addresses. With an IPO coming soon, Google will hope users give it a try. Paean From The Penitentiary W hat was Mikhail Khodorkovsky thinking? The former chief executive of Russia's oil giant Yukos, in jail since last October on tax evasion and fraud charges, wrote an essay for a Moscow newspaper, apologizing...
...INDICATORS Strong Signals Belgian phone company Belgacom sold €3.3 billion worth of shares in the largest IPO in the country's history, and the biggest in Europe for three years...
...investment banker, Cameron, 37, managed a $50 million IPO for Acambis, a London vaccine producer. As its CFO, he helped Acambis win a $430 million contract from the U.S. to supply smallpox vaccine, a contract that transformed the company from a small R.-and-D. shop into a drugmaker with clout. So it's no wonder that the Acambis board took a chance on Cameron and named him CEO. The Scotsman, whose hobbies include golf, will try to tee up the first West Nile--virus vaccine in his first months...
...operator KPN, while France Télécom boosted the valuations of several Internet service providers with its €3.9 billion offer for the 29% share of France's Wanadoo - Europe's second biggest ISP - it doesn't already own. And on Thursday Britain had its biggest tech IPO since 2000; shares in wireless microchip maker Cambridge Silicon Radio rose 23% in its first day of trading. Investment bankers predict a new wave of consolidation; Goldman Sachs estimates telecom firms will have...