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The rise of Netscape
FORTUNE -- Behold the power of a visionary scorned. In February 1994, Jim Clark, then chairman of Silicon Graphics, the computer workstation company he founded in 1982, quit in disgust. He had failed to persuade senior colleagues at the thriving company to speed up plans to make low-cost, high-volume hardware for the much-ballyhooed information highway -- a move he considered critical to Silicon Graphics' long-term survival. "I got tired of pushing against an immovable object," says Clark, 52. "I felt like I wasn't having any influence."
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3 keys to a killer Super Bowl ad
FORTUNE -- Super Bowl weekend is here. For some, Sunday is all about the game. For others, the ads take center stage. For the latter, here are three keys to making a killer spot.
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Twitter investor talks IPO
Twitter will eventually cave to investor and employee pressure and/or bump up against the 500-shareholder rule
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Private equity gets a PAC
Private equity pulls out its checkbook.
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Why three senators said no to an insider trading ban in Congress
Three senators explain their votes against a no brainer.
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The problem with the founder's letter
FORTUNE -- For Internet companies going public, the founder's letter is becoming a ritual with a purely symbolic value, a rite of passage into the adulthood of public markets. Larry Page and Sergey Brin started it when Google (GOOG) went public in 2004. Andrew Mason raised it to absurd new heights when Groupon (GRPN) launched its IPO last year.
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King Larry: The story of a business monster
Growing up fatherless on a peach farm in California, Larry Hillblom told friends he wanted to be like Howard Hughes some day. He came closer than anyone could have expected. Hillblom went into business, amassed a huge fortune, acquired an airline, built a secretive empire, sustained hideous injuries in a plane crash, and developed into a full-blown germaphobe eccentric.
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How Indianapolis won the Super Bowl: a lesson in persuasion
Allison Melangton, president and CEO of the Indianapolis Super Bowl Host Committee, shares her story of bringing Super Bowl XLVI to her hometown.
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The best cities for job hunting
FORTUNE -- Dear Annie: I just got a pink slip from the bank where I've worked as a marketing director for the past 12 years, and which is now undergoing a total restructuring, so I'm pondering what my next move should be. Opportunities are limited in the smallish East Coast city where I live (the bank I'll soon be leaving is the single biggest employer in town) and, having moved here solely to take the position I'm now losing, I'm not particularly attached to this area. Our kids are away at college now, our mortgage is paid off, and my wife, who is a pediatrician, really could work anywhere. So we're open to the idea of moving -- but where would I have the best chance of finding a new job? I'm also wondering, do many employers still pay moving expenses for new management hires, or is that a thing of the past? --Footloose
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The cloud goes Hollywood
Consumers who recently purchased Warner Brothers' final Harry Potter film on DVD or Blu-ray found a surprise in the package: a digital copy of the movie in the new UltraViolet format. Although the name is not yet familiar, UltraViolet represents Hollywood's first step into the cloud -- the much-hyped idea that media will be stored on remote servers and accessed by various devices.
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