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...nearly 25% of Seagram. Bronfman has had to endure endless Hollywood brickbats since his father tapped him for the top job in 1994. Outsiders ridiculed the Bronfman scion, who writes pop songs under the pseudonym Junior Miles, as a star-struck dilettante when he jettisoned Seagram's lucrative 24.2% stake in DuPont and used the proceeds to buy Universal. It didn't help that DuPont stock promptly doubled, as Seagram's own shares sparkled less than flat Champagne. Yet Bronfman stubbornly stuck to his show-biz guns. He shelled out $10.4 billion for Polygram music in 1998, making his family...
...raising $10 million by the fall--and then giving it away. A native of (where else?) Palo Alto, Calif., Newman just happens to be a budding venture capitalist, one of the early-stage investors who fund high-tech ventures before they go public, in exchange for a potentially lucrative stake. His fledgling fund, Paradigm Blue, plans to give about $500,000 to promising dorm-room start-ups that can't possibly get a meeting with the cozy club of old-line...
...institutional investors who had grown impatient with the previous management. The company had grown too quickly in the 1990s, says Lundberg, with interests in everything from chicken farms to electronic-cable manufacturing. Then reports leaked that the management had granted an option to an outside company for a 5% stake in Elektrim's most valuable asset, the wireless firm Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa, or PTC. Major Western shareholders swooped in. Lundberg sold off interests in nearly 80 companies, slashing staff levels from 30,000 to 15,000 by last December. They will be down...
...analogous issue is at stake in the government's case against Microsoft. Microsoft argues that it has furthered innovation by providing a platform upon which many application developers have been able to write code. No doubt it has--generally. But the government attacked cases where Microsoft used its power over the platform to stifle technologies that threatened Microsoft's monopoly. The charge was that Microsoft's strategic behavior undermined innovation that was inconsistent with Microsoft's business...
...There's something happening out there. I think people are beginning to look at what is really at stake in our nation's decision on where we go from here. They like this prosperity and progress. They know that we need discipline in our policies in order to continue them. They know that it's unwise to spend money we don't have and put the prosperity and progress in jeopardy...