For a variety of reasons, our initial public offering this week did not come off as we had planned.

FORBES: Leaders Apologize

We should also expect a variety of prices and advertising models during the initial experimentation period.

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Interval Licensing, a company Allen controls, yesterday filed a revised patent infringement suit against a variety of large technology companies, after a federal judge in August tossed out an initial version of the complaint, asserting that the allegations made were not specific enough.

FORBES: Paul Allen Revises Patent Suit Against Tech Titans