Size matters

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Four days before 9/11, Jeff Immelt took the wheel of the global empire of media properties, financial services, consumer electronics and jet engines collectively known as General Electric. Immelt feels that GE could take a $10 million idea and turn it into a billion-dollar business better and faster than anybody in the world.

ELECTRONIC & OTHER ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT, Electrical equipment and supplies industry, Electric equipment industry, Interview, General Electric Co., GE, Immelt, Jeffrey

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Darpa's gambling man

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An idea proposed by economist Robin Hanson, working with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has to do with using market forces to assess the likelihood of terrorism or other threats.

Strategy & planning, Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Police Protection, Economists, Terrorist Control, Security Mgmt-Kidnapping & Terrorism, Planning, Economic aspects, Prevention, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Security systems industry, Terrorism, United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Company business planning, Hanson, Robin

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His space

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With News Corp.'s acquisition of MySpace, a free social network, Chief Rupert Murdoch's plans for turning MySpace into a marketing force are presented.

Acquisitions & mergers, On-Line Information Services, Database Vendors, Management dynamics, PRINTING AND PUBLISHING, Publishing, Publishing Industries, Printing & Publishing, Information retrieval services, Publishing industry, Management, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Database industry, Company acquisition/merger, Company business management, The News Corporation Ltd., NWS, Murdoch, Rupert, MySpace.com Inc.

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