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• McNealy Says Vertical Marketplaces 'Make No Sense'
• Only failures need apply
• Modem Inventor Heads New E-Business
• A Purveyor of Prestige Bets on the Web
• Entertaindom's Cliffhanger Episode
• AOL Assigns Gang to iPlanet e-Commerce Solutions
• Crane Joins AOL as VP for Education Products
• Sony Shuffles Its Top Executives
• E*Trade names new president
• SAP's New U.S. Head to Boost Efforts to Keep Staff
• Sega President Steps Down After Loss
• Fogdog loses top executive, board member

Sun Microsystems chairman Scott McNealy today told a conference audience that the fast-growing vertical marketplace segment is in for a shakeout.

TechWeb
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000503S0006> 

A Californian entrepreneur has set up a website offering help to people whose internet businesses have failed.

BBC News
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_762000/762481.stm> 

Dennis Hayes -- credited with inventing the computer modem in 1978 -- recently became chief executive of a new e-commerce unit of the online retailing company International Brands.

New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/biztech/articles/08haye.html> 

Bernard Arnault, who controls famous luxury goods companies like Christian Dior and Dom Perignon, has invested hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money into Internet ventures in Europe and the United States. The Internet "will change the way we buy everything," he said.

New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/biztech/articles/15bern.html> 

The top brass is officially out at the Warner Bros. site, and it's future may be nothing but static.

Industry Standard
<http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,14467,00.html?nl=dnh> 

Veteran takes role as executive VP and deputy GM

Internet News
<http://dc.internet.com/people/article/0,1934,2141_366951,00.html> 

Veteran educator to help launch AOL@School

Internet News
<http://dc.internet.com/people/article/0,1934,2141_362931,00.html> 

The Japanese electronics giant reorganizes to bolster its Net and broadband industries.

Industry Standard
<http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,14906,00.html?nl=dnh> 

Gramaglia to succeed Levinson.

Upside
<http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/fat-free/story?id=392c7ad80> 

SAP AG's newly appointed head of U.S. operations said he would step up efforts to stem the outflow of staff which has damaged Europe's largest business software maker in the United States.

Upside
<http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/news/wire?id=392fea162> 

The president of Sega Enterprises Ltd. stepped down on Friday after the world's third-largest home video game maker reported its third annual loss in a row, despite a 27 percent jump in sales.

Upside
<http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/news/wire?id=392ee396a> 

Online sporting goods retailer Fogdog Sports said today that a top executive and a board member have cut ties with the company.

CNET
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-1940020.html?dtn.head>