Word: processing
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...future, and his Pacific Century Group got $50 million in backing from Intel for that dream in 1998. His next big deal was to develop a high-tech "Cyberport" on a prime piece of land donated by the Hong Kong government--without, strangely, the territory's usual process of taking bids from potential developers. He then created Pacific Century CyberWorks through a so-called back-door listing on the Hong Kong exchange, a procedure in which an existing public company is bought and renamed. (This evades the exchange's rule that a company must have two years of profits before...
Managers must be careful not to swing too far the other way though, warns Olivier Zitoun, CEO of Eveo.com an online digital-video broadcaster. A democratic approach can get messy, he says, and stall the decision-making process...
...managing director of ICF Ventures, he is helping modernize the way India does business, giving some bright, young tech upstarts a chance to succeed without leaving their homeland. And he's making lots of money for his Western investors. He's got a dozen deals clinched or in process, conservatively projected to return within two years five times his fund's investment of $15 million...
...interview the boy. At one point, the cameras captured him shyly wondering whether his mother was still alive and had forgotten about him. That, says a child psychiatrist who had been approached earlier by the Miami relatives to evaluate Elian, indicated that the boy "has not...started the grieving process...
...scientific explanation for all those arguments with your spouse over directions. Researchers at the University of Ulm in Germany scanned the brains of men and women as they tried to escape a 3-D virtual-reality maze and found that the sexes use different parts of the brain to process directions. Men relied on their left hippocampus and used geometry to find their way. Women used their right frontal cortex, trusting memory to keep landmarks in mind...