Stock options: none Why on the list: Japan's Internet penetration rate at year-end 1998 was 10.8% , compared with approximately 24% in the U.S. IDC projects that the number of devices in Japan with Internet access capability will increase from approximately 12 million at year-end 1998 to more than 46 million by year-end 2002.

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Although there has been some cable cutting, in which consumers drop pay TV and either use antennas or run a service like Netflix through an Internet connection, traditional TV distribution has an insanely high rate of market penetration.

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