A Round of Applause for AOL

Now here's an interesting trick. How do you simultaneously illustrate exactly which business practices not to do and yet remain the world's largest Internet provider and 4th most popular search portal? Maybe it's a combination of being fathered by Time Warner, aggressive direct CD-to-drink-coaster marketing, seduction of the pre-teen masses, AND according to the latest news, not letting anybody cancel their overpriced Internet service.

Japanese Music Providers Have Long Road To Hoe

When one company becomes the first to tap a geyser of a market, every other company that follows suit just looks like a bunch of copycat opportunists, even if they had it planned in advance of their rival's success. When Apple iTunes sold one million digital music tracks in four days to the Japanese, Yahoo! and Sony seemed surprised that the folks who invented karaoke…