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Older versions of the popular music-sharing program Napster were rendered obsolete late last week by the launch of a new program that would help the company comply with court rulings ordering it to stop copyrighted music from being traded online...
...THREE MERCEDES DEALERSHIPS outside Berlin and by lending his name to AOL, DaimlerChrysler, Völkl rackets and the rtl television network. But his venture online was less successful. The German sports site Sportgate, of which Becker owned 60%, shut down two weeks ago, just three months after launch, with insiders blaming disagreements among the shareholders. In 1999, Becker's stint as Germany's Davis Cup manager also ended in failure, largely because he couldn't get along with one of the country's leading players, Nicolas Kiefer. That same year Becker was the front man for a $300 million...
...case, new tests of these bizarre ideas will not be too long in coming. Next week a satellite will launch from Cape Canaveral to make the most sensitive observations ever of the cosmic background radiation. Supernova watchers, meanwhile, are lobbying NASA for a dedicated telescope so they won't have to queue up for time on the badly oversubscribed Hubble. And lower-tech telescopes and microwave detectors, both on the ground and lofted into the air aboard balloons, will continue to refine their measurements...
...customers 30 years in one fell swoop," said Rose Marie Bravo, the voluble American who has steered the British Burberry brand for the past four years. Call it a billion-dollar bikini. Analysts valued Burberry at $280 million this time last year. Burberry's IPO, which is set to launch in mid-2002, anticipates a value of as much as $2.8 billion...
...telecommunications center and the key hub for the southern European network. It also boasts research and production centers for the biotech and microelectronics industries - including the likes of Gemplus and STMicroelectronics - and has created local graduate schools to produce employees with the skills these companies need. The June 10 launch of the new high-speed TGV rail service - reducing travel time to Paris from four hours and 20 min. to three hours, and to Lyons from two hours and 45 min. to one hour and 40 min. - will make commuting to and from Marseilles both cheaper and faster...