The Art of Negotiation
Eric Klein, a partner in the Los Angeles office of ShawPittman LLP, and instructor for the upcoming Larta University workshop, Successful Negotiating, discusses the art of the deal.
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All Is Not Lost for Technology Bankers
Apparently tech stocks weren't the only things that went plummeting after the tanking of the technology sector. Lethargy in the IPO market and M&A activity has facilitated the shut down or virtual disappearance of some of the most prominent investment banks that served several high-tech companies during the tech boom.
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One Way to Settle the Controversy over Stock Options: Eliminate Them (Knowledge @ Wharton)
In the wake of news reports about compensation excesses in U.S. companies, Cendant recently announced that it expected to reduce the issuance of employee stock options and use grants of restricted stock instead. That decision has placed Cendant – an $8.9 billion real estate and travel conglomerate – in the vanguard of a movement to reject option-based incentives and return to a more traditional way of rewarding performance. How valid is that approach, and will other companies follow Cendant’s lead?
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Security Technology:

Technology lags, and problems persist with smuggled weapons despite more screeners (LA Times)
Thousands more sky marshals are flying. Most airport workers have been given criminal background checks. Intelligence sharing is better. At Los Angeles International Airport, 49 lanes are open for screening passengers, up from 42 before the Sept. 11 attacks, with a goal of at least 60.
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Nanotech and Bioscience:

Be All That DNA Can Be (Wired)
In its continuing efforts to identify all its lost soldiers, the U.S. Army is quietly becoming the leader in pushing a new form of DNA testing.
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Research Reveals Role of Breast Cancer Gene in Repairing Damaged DNA (Scientific American)
It is estimated that 200, 000 new incidences of breast cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. in 2002. For women with a family history of the disease, about half of the cases will be caused by mutations in one of two genes: BRCA1 and BRCA2. Now findings published online by the journal Science reveal the crystal structure of the BRCA2 protein and demonstrates how mutations in the gene could contribute to tumor growth.
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HP fellow talks of triple achievement in molecular electronics (CMP Media)
Speaking at a symposium celebrating the 175th anniversary of the Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden, Stanley Williams, a Hewlett Packard fellow and director of quantum science research at HP Labs, said his group had scored three important achievements in molecular electronics.
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Digital Media:

Want Video on Demand? Press Pause (Wired)
File trading is so 1999. The newest roadblock to downloading digital entertainment is patent law. And this time, it's the media companies breaking the rules.
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The New Arena For Video Games (New York Times)
Sony's PlayStation 2 has dominated rivals from Microsoft and Nintendo. But this fall the console competition enters a new arena: online gaming.
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