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A hitchhiker in the new economy At h2g2.com, Douglas Adams is trying to make his guide to the galaxy come to life.
By Janelle Brown [06/12/00]

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Napster at law Attorney-turned-interim CEO Hank Barry promises to make money, not war, for the beleaguered music-swapping service.
By Damien Cave [05/30/00]

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The accidental entertainer Rob Burgess wasn't chasing cartoons -- but with Macromedia's Flash and Shockwave enabling a faux broadband experience, he's suddenly tight with Stan Lee.
By John Geirland [11/14/99]

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The music man MTVi's Nicholas Butterworth says he wants the audience to do the programming.
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Gambling on the Webcast Can a Microsoft veteran make the Digital Entertainment Network sing?
By John Geirland [10/10/99]

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Brand builder Lycos chief executive Bob Davis argues that Yahoo's single-brand strategy is the Web star's Achilles' heel.
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Bill Gates' other CEO The Corbis digital archive is privately held by Gates, but it's former human rights attorney Steve Davis' job to make it work.
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Linux at the bat Red Hat's Marc Ewing steps up to the plate against Microsoft in the billion-dollar free-software ballgame.
By Andrew Leonard [10/03/99]

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Local explosion Dan Finnigan, president of Knight Ridder New Media, talks about how "the No. 1 newspaper chain on the Internet" is destined to be the king of online local news.
By Janelle Brown [10/24/99]

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Aliens: The sequel A tale of off-world visitation gave USWeb founder Joe Firmage no end of trouble -- but he's still alive, kicking and raising gobs of venture capital for his latest crusade.
By Janelle Brown [07/05/00]

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The Michael Jordan of gaming Dennis "Thresh" Fong leaves the deathmatch arena to try his hand at building a business.
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Stoking the Net's growth Industry veteran Ellen Hancock talks about Windows NT, glass ceilings -- and how her company, Exodus, keeps its vast server farms humming.
By Julie Polito [10/17/99]

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We're no dot-com! Critical Path has faced stock drops and layoffs, but CEO Doug Hickey won't be lumped in with the losers.
By Damien Cave [08/14/00]

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GM's e-mobile magnate Mark Hogan is in the "Web on wheels" driver's seat, trying to put GM on a collision course with Gen X.
By Janelle Brown [11/07/99]

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Broadband warrior Tom Jermoluk takes on everyone from America Online to the local phone company in his bid to connect with the consumer.
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Thinking outside the cube Philippe Kahn programmed one of the first personal computers, now he's developing wireless Net technology that could unchain people from their PCs.
By Sean Donahue [09/27/99]

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E-book 'em! AtRandom publisher Jonathan Karp is looking for literary revelation -- and mass readership -- from digital books.
By Janelle Brown [08/08/00]

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Camera on a chip Photobit CEO Sabrina Kemeny's tiny image sensors will bring us "Get Smart"-style watches and cellphones that take snapshots.
By Mark Compton [05/22/00]

I want my own .tv The CEO of a company that administers the domain name for the island nation of Tuvalu thinks it could be more profitable than .com.
By Damien Cave [07/24/00]

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High-speed Net access that's out of this world John Koehler retired from a career at Hughes Electronics and the CIA to build fast Net connections on satellites already in orbit.
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Information just wants to be Freenet Rob Kramer and Ian Clarke's new venture, Uprizer, wants to be the Red Hat of peer-to-peer networks. What's behind their wall of secrecy?
By Damien Cave [08/28/00]

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It's the dream life Peter Lund, formerly CEO of CBS, teams up with self-help guru Tony Robbins to build an online audience of people who want to be their best.
By Damien Cave [06/19/00]

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Britain's first software billionaire At Autonomy, Mike Lynch creates programs that act like people do, analyzing words and extracting ideas.
By Wendy M. Grossman [07/10/00]

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"Competitive strategy is not an end in itself" HearMe's Paul Matteucci talks about the future, the Stanford mafia and what Silicon millionaires are going to do with their money.
By Mark Gimein [01/04/00]

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Dot-com servitude "Will work for options" was the motto that built the new economy, but mylackey.com's Brian McGarvey takes it to new extremes. Housecleaning anyone?
By Damien Cave [06/05/00]

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Prime time online Jim Moloshok just launched the multimillion-dollar Entertaindom portal. Can he create the successor to network TV?
By Susan Kuchinskas [12/06/99]

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Market makers Andrew and Thomas Parkinson opened the first online grocery store a decade ago. Now they're reveling in a flood of Peapod competitors.
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The spam-master Sunil Paul, CEO of Brightmail, explains what it takes to be a two-time winner in the Internet economy.
By Andrew Leonard [11/01/99]

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Wired science David Perry made Chemdex, an online marketplace for lab supplies, a business-to-business darling. What are his plans for the health-care sector?
By Mark Compton [01/18/00]

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A Napster lawsuit laid to rest Rob Reid shelved Listen.com's legal action, but he says it'll take an act of Congress to resolve the digital music tug of war.
By Janelle Brown [07/17/00]

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Why Scour is not the new Napster Dan Rodrigues defends his multimedia search engine, even as it faces a nasty lawsuit.
By Damien Cave [08/22/00]

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M is for mobile "M-commerce" is coming, says wireless king Alain Rossmann, who already buys books with two clicks on his wireless phone.
By Mark Compton [01/31/00]

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Watermarks in music? Talal Shamoon, a key technologist for the Secure Digital Music Initiative, says that he's found the key to protecting copyrighted tunes.
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Easy coder Martin Tobias' film about a cross-country Harley ride prompted another journey -- into multimedia encoding.
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Hold the phone Robert Tercek and PacketVideo think media covergence is headed for your cell phone.
By John Geirland[12/20/99]

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Studio Technician MPAA president Jack Valenti has never downloaded an MP3, but he could have a huge impact on the future of online entertainment.
by Damien Cave [02/14/00]

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Mr. Fix-it After a summer of outages, eBay invited Maynard Webb to be its chief of technologies and shore up the auction site's systems.
By Sean Donahue [09/20/99]

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Tuned in to TV Wink CEO Maggie Wilderotter is a confessed TVaholic. She's not interested in interactive TV that pushes couch potatoes onto the web.
By Janelle Brown [11/22/99]

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