Business 2.0 Magazine August 2003 - Issue Highlights.Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 21, 2003 COVER STORY "Gulp!," by Erick Schonfeld and Om Malik Om Malik (born September 29 1966 in New Delhi, India) is an Indian-American technology writer. He is the founder of Giga Omni Media, Inc. and executive editor for the technology blog GigaOM. Malik graduated from St. , page 88 The tech business is poised to enter a new eat-or-be-eaten phase. Sun, Apple, PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems Siebel is a brand name of Oracle Corporation. Siebel Systems, Inc., founded by Thomas Siebel in 1993, was principally engaged in the design, development, marketing and support of CRM applications. , Yahoo and Cisco could all be someone's lunch. We canvassed a sampling of some of the savviest investment bankers, analysts, and tech executives to come up with our own merger scenarios for the not-so-distant future. The dinner bell has rung; let the banquet begin. OTHER FEATURED ARTICLES "The Love Algorithm," by Susan Orenstein, page 116 The online dating industry brings in more revenue than any other category of legitimate paid Web content. So how can Dallas-based Match.com--the biggest of them all--maintain its lead? That's where the love algorithm comes in. Mark Thompson This article is about the Director-General of the BBC. For other individuals with the same name, see Mark Thompson (disambiguation) Mark Thompson (born July 31 1957) is Director-General of the BBC, a post he has held since 2004, and a former chief executive of Channel 4. , a consultant to Match.com and a 36-year-old bachelor, is trying to develop the formula that will help anyone find Mr. or Ms. Right. Call it a Google for Love. "Can This Weatherman See Your Future?," by Andy Raskin, page 96 Mother Nature's unpredictability is expensive. Retailers have to decide when to stock sweaters in St. Louis and T-shirts in Tennessee. Enter Planalytics, a consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a based in Wayne, Pa., that claims it can predict how weather will impact individual products' sales up to one year in the future by using a top-secret technique. Meteorologists Atmospheric scientists
"Is Nintendo Playing the Wrong Game?," by Geoff Keighley Geoff Keighley is a Canadian videogame journalist. His work spans online, print and TV outlets, and he has been writing about games since the year 1992. He is most well known as the host of the Spike TV video game show Game Head , page 110 Nintendo once owned the videogame business, but now the company is on the ropes. While Sony and Microsoft are turning their consoles into all-in-one home entertainment centers, Nintendo is sticking to a games-only strategy, a play-it-safe move that could reduce the company to irrelevance. Nintendo CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Satoru Iwata Satoru Iwata (岩田 聡 Iwata Satoru is still determined to win the battle for the world's living rooms--but is it too late? "Mr. Greenspan Throws a Party," by Scott McMurray, page 102 You don't need to believe in a 1991-style bull to justify buying stocks today. All you need is a reasonable expectation that you'll beat what you'd have earned on bonds or cash. Of course, there are risks. The fact is, powerful forces have lined up on the side of shareholders. Wall Street, having seen this situation before, even has an aphorism aphorism (ăf`ərĭz'əm), short, pithy statement of an evident truth concerned with life or nature; distinguished from the axiom because its truth is not capable of scientific demonstration. for it: Don't fight the Fed. COLUMNS The Point, by Kevin Bermeister Kevin Bermeister has developed substantial businesses in the computers, video games and multimedia industries. He established Ozisoft in 1982, based in Sydney, Australia, which was one of the first interactive multimedia companies. , page 140 Media companies have to stop suing and start acting in their own interests, says this month's guest columnist, Kevin Bermeister, CEO of Brilliant Digital Entertainment (creator of Altnet). He contends that the technology exists to make peer-to-peer applications work for legitimate, copyright-protected content. Face Time, by John Heilemann, page 41 Gateway's Ted Waitt has seen the future of the PC business, and it isn't pretty. But will getting into consumer electronics be any better? Ask Evelyn, by Evelyn Nussenbaum, page 136 Business 2.0's new workplace columnist, Evelyn Nussenbaum, tackles readers' questions on how to regain your staff's trust after a scandal, and why you should listen to the folks in IT. The Message, by John Battelle, page 66 Several states are trying to do what the federal government couldn't: Kill innovation on the broadband Internet. PLUS Surprise Hit, page 56: How Starbucks' new gift cards are helping it to identify--and reward--its best customers; Titans of Tech Titans of Tech, also known as TechTV's Titans of Tech, was a 60 minute documentary type American television program on TechTV that profiled the tech industry's leaders. The show was produced and aired in 2001. , page 36: Anthony B. Perkins talks to Microsoft's head of R&D and brainiac-in-chief, Rick Rashid, about the company's new initiatives, open-source software, and managing innovation; Human Factor, page 77: Why corporate execs should obsess ob·sess v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es v.tr. To preoccupy the mind of excessively. v.intr. over everything but the stock price; Investing, page 127: Newsletter guru and money manager Michael Murphy is scaling back after big losses. Does this mean a bull market is here?; VC View, page 32: Battery Ventures plugs into digital content; The Best, page 131: Restaurants to wow your clients without breaking the bank; Gizmos, page 134: Nokia's new music phone and a high-tech dashboard for your bike; What Doesn't Work, page 74: How Samsonite became an endangered species endangered species, any plant or animal species whose ability to survive and reproduce has been jeopardized by human activities. In 1999 the U.S. government, in accordance with the U.S. ; Cheat Sheet, page 123: How to negotiate into--or out of--a job; ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). , page 47: Why Best Buy's new line of PCs breaks the mold for store brands; How To, page 64: How Sybase's John Chen took a left-for-dead company and made it competitive again; and more. The August 2003 issue is available on newsstands July 21. For more information, or to schedule an interview with a Business 2.0 writer or editor, contact Marlene Saritzky at 415-293-4839 or Marlene@business2.com; Karen Palmer at 415-293-4837 or Karen_Palmer@business2.com; or Laura Goldberg at 212-725-2295 or Laurago@tryloncommunications.com. --30--RS/
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