'Sisters doing it for themselves (Edinburgh Evening News) WHEN Sir Alan Sugar pointed his index finger and declared: "You're fired", there was as much interest in how he'd ended up with two women fighting for the chance to be his apprentice as there was in the feisty battle they had endured to get there.
'Mergers. Internet's next trend? (Hindustan Times) It looks like Yahoo! will encourage people to use eBay's PayPal to buy services and pay for things on the Yahoo! Portal. In its one-good-turn-deserves-likewise mood, EBay too has agreed to make Yahoo! the "exclusive provider of graphical advertisements" on eBay.com.
'BSA wants stiffer penalties for software piracy (Times Online) PC software used in the UK is illegal, according to the Business Software Alliance. That is exactly the same figure that it revealed last year, so it now wants stiffer penalties from the Government in the hope of cutting the rate.
