Stories by Beth Schultz

The Business of Broadband

Bob Knowling, CEO of upstart competitive local exchange carrier Covad Communications Co., likes to envision his phone company competitors as ugly old giants sleeping lazily on their front porches. And he's running like mad to give Covad some distance in the broadband Internet access race before those slumbering foes awake.

Sigma-Aldrich Wins Our E-comm Innovator Award

Old-line chemical firm Sigma-Aldrich Corp. is heading into new-world e-commerce with its beakers blazing. And it's hoping it has all the right elements to best its young, but well-funded, dot-com competitors at their own Web experiments.

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