After snapping up 22 companies in nine months, the Powerlan group is "well down the road" toward its objective, says chairman Neville Wran.
The new impost is doing more than creating pockets of pain in the e-commerce community. It is eating away at the Internet's fragile status as a semiprotected species in a tax-intensive world.
The legal battle over a $20 million down payment lodged by eisa in its failed bid to purchase OzEmail from UUNet has generated its first gag orders.