The Net era will be one in which customer satisfaction will prevail above all else.

FORBES: Groupon��an Ordinary Company for a Revolutionary New Era

In this Net era, companies will increasingly enjoy such direct connections with customers, and be able similarly to exploit lower long-term marketing costs.

FORBES: Groupon��an Ordinary Company for a Revolutionary New Era

Napster, hatched by a teenager, signals a new era of peer-to-peer computing--a Net that functions just fine without big expensive servers.

FORBES: Digital Rules

Two Dutch-listed vehicles run by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and by Apollo, which have high exposures to boom-era deals, have both reported drops of about a quarter in their net assets.

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Now comes the Net and suddenly Microsoft appears as slow and confused as DEC at the dawn of the PC era.

FORBES: Dvorak is wrong