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Besides, editorialists at both the New York Times and the Washington Post tell citizens worried about media diversity and consumers worried about their pocketbooks to relax. This is a merger of cyber apples and earthbound oranges. AOL already has 20 million customers (about half the market) for the dial-up services that link computers to the Internet. Time Warner is already the world's biggest media conglomerate. Joining the two won't substantially increase either's share of its market. As the Post put it, "Down the road, there may be reasons to fear the muscle of AOL Time Warner...
...parent company, Hearst. Indeed, from all reports, the women worked well together at Vogue, with Betts' skill as a writer complementing Wintour's impeccable eye. And with the exception of a newspaper article in which Betts, who gave birth to her first child only days after accepting the Bazaar post, expressed disappointment that Wintour had not sent her a baby gift, both women have behaved with determined gentility. Wintour praised Betts in a recent editor's letter (making no mention of the handful of Vogue staff members Betts took with her), and Betts acknowledged Wintour in her first editor...
...minority writers to whom the networks have, post-N.A.A.C.P., been offering development deals will probably be watching City's fortunes and CBS's patience. Pointing to good ratings for recent TV movies featuring African Americans, CBS Television president Les Moonves says, "We don't need an instant 20 share to be able to let [City] survive" in its uncompetitive 8 p.m. time slot. But they will need both white and minority viewers to thrive and create the kind of cross-cultural exchange City aims at. In the second episode, a white resident panics when an African-American girl shows...
...moment during online shoppers' visits to an e-merchant: the point at which they have identified the product they want to buy but haven't completed the transaction. Some stay. Some bolt. A little hand holding can help reduce the chance of a cut-and-run considerably. First tip: Post a toll-free number, and staff the phones. Ken Seiff, CEO of Bluefly.com which sells discount designer apparel (big holiday seller: $79 pashmina scarves), attributes his company's favorable traffic-to-sales ratio to having enough live customer-service reps (70 during the busiest December weeks, up from just four...
Electronics dealer Crutchfield.com isn't the only e-tailer that e-mails customers to confirm that an order has been received, and e-mails again when the shipment has left the warehouse. But the company is one of the savvy few that post whether a given item is in stock (a more helpful variation of Amazon's "usually ships within 24 hours"). Many consumers Gomez surveyed said they wished more sites tracked inventory in real time, Frankle notes...