They will take comfort from a new book by Bob Davis and David Wessel, two journalists at the Wall Street Journal.

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However, in an earlier interview with Forbes, Quattro backer Bob Davis of Highland Capital said Quattro was serving 5.5 billion ad impressions a month.

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Bob Davis is the Founder and former CEO of Lycos, Inc.

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Bob Davis, an executive vice president with the American Bankers Association, told Bloomberg that loan balances must be reduced so much for borrowers struggling to make payments that it is a better deal for lenders to foreclose instead, he said.

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An asset for Lycos is its Tripod division, which has helped Bob Davis build up a big build-your-own-homepage community, admittedly not something new in Asia but a proven winner in the U.S. Still, Lycos Asia will probably be a success, because its blue-chip Singaporean backers will ensure it is.

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The large cast also includes Joe Mantegna, Alec Baldwin, Blythe Danner, Judy Davis, Bob Balaban, and Bernadette Peters (who does a sensational brief turn as a cynical muse).

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After legendary Indiana coach Bob Knight was fired in 2000, successor Mike Davis signed just two recruits from Indiana in his six seasons.

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