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    The newscaster at Qatar's Aljazeera network read off the day's headlines in Arabic in a Web video clip. A few moments later, a transcript was available in English.

  • Is Google ogling Yahoo's crown?

    First Google sneaks up on Inktomi to win the Yahoo search engine account. Now, as the Web giant struggles with revenue and its executive team, could Google be sneaking up on Yahoo?

  • The Year 2000 in review

    The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.

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