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Companies Rethink Ho |
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| As the labor market tightens and skilled workers become scarce, companies are casting a wider net for employees. |
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Convergence Scramble |
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| Despite all the hype of “media convergence” since the late 1990s, until recently the reality has fallen short. Convergence was supposed to bring all of the digital technologies together. Because of this vision, billions of dollars were lost on bad business decisions. |
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Real vs. Cyber Becom |
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| Amazon has revolutionized the way people buy books, Google has transformed the way people search for information, and eBay has changed the way people buy and sell items that used to be sold at yard sales. |
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Massively Multi-Play |
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| In 2001, an unknown 38-year-old academic named Edward Castronova was teaching at Cal State University in Fullerton, California, and feeling like a failure. His career had never gone anywhere, and he felt like he was at a dead end. He was so lonely at night he just sat around and played video games. |
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On-Line Advertising |
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| Just a few short years ago, before the dot-com crash, any Web site with lots of visitors was thought to be a money machine for advertisers. BlueMountain.com, a greeting card company with 11 million visitors a month, sold for $780 million, even though it had no revenues. But, shortly after the crash, you couldn’t give those eyeballs away, and until recently the industry consensus was that there was little if any value in advertising on the Internet. |
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