Amazon Faces Facts And Fires 150

Amazon.com will lay off 150 employees in its first retrenchment since the company was formed, just five days before it is expected to report further losses in its fourth quarter. The Internet's largest retailer, which began selling online in 1995, would not give reasons for cutting 2 per cent of

Techno-paradise

What's new in the year 2000? Andrew Heasley reports. LAS Vegas, with its dazzling lights, was a fitting venue for the Consumer Electronics Show 2000, a showcase of technological innovations that threatened to eclipse the neon madness outdoors. The stars of the show, which was held earlier this

In The End It's The People Who Count

IF the last century ended up marked by excess in almost every field, the one which has just begun already seems likely to eclipse it by a long way. The merger between America Online and Time Warner which had the cyber world and the sharemarkets all a-twitter last week involves numbers and custome