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...took the international arm, with interests in Indonesia and Trinidad and Tobago, and the rest of the family kept the domestic Indian business. Since then, Mittal has left the other side of the family behind. Over the past five years he has made about 20 acquisitions, buying up a network of steel producers in former communist countries including Kazakhstan, Romania and Ukraine, and pushing into the U.S. in 2004 with the $4.5 billion purchase of International Steel Group. His empire now has more than 175,000 employees and spans the globe. Last year, he set up shop in India...
...become director of the division of clinical sciences at the National Cancer Institute. But in 2001 the government of Singapore made him an offer he couldn't refuse: the directorship of the brand new Genome Institute along with a $25 million starting budget--part of a $288 million integrated network of life-science research centers and biotech start-ups called Biopolis. Says Liu: "I came because I saw that the entire leadership of the country, the fabric of the country was thirsting for biology...
...idea for ?StarTomorrow? was hatched in NBC?s broadcast department seven months ago, when Mottola and the producers of ?The Biggest Loser? pitched the idea as a reality show for the TV network. Gaspin felt the "Idol" genre was already too crowded, but decided-when he started his new job on NBC?s digital end-that it might stand a better chance on the Net. For one thing, it makes economic sense...
...StarTomorrow" will cost about 20 percent of what it would cost to produce for the network; advertisers will also pay less for spots, making it (at least initially easier) to attract their interest (and dollars). More importantly, "StarTomorrow" takes NBC further into the realm of digital entertainment. ?We?re a content company and there?s an awful lot of content moving towards the web. We need to experiment and find new things,? says Gaspin. Even, as with this particular "Idol" imitation, they're just experimenting with a new version of an old thing...
...Harvard has provided periodic network engineering and project management advice at the request of the City of Cambridge during the last year as they evaluated the feasibility of this ambitious project,” wrote Moriarty in an e-mail...