While the dot-com bust continues to cast a shadow, Internet advertising is booming
By Brad Stone and Miguel Helft
For decades, Silicon Valley has been the land of eternal optimism and high anxiety, traits that pitch into overdrive any time a seismic business event washes across the corporate and entrepreneurial landscape here -- like, for example, Microsoft's blockbuster US$45 billion bid for Yahoo on Friday.

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By Virginie Montet
Amid rousing applause and cheers, seniors in a retirement complex in the Washington suburbs have hopped onto the videogame craze, belatedly but with a vengeance, swinging their arms in a virtual game of bowling.

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By Fanny Johnstone
Not many teenagers can say they have contributed to changing the world, but Emily Cummins has a credible claim. Last year, at the age of 19, she was named innovator of the year in the British Female Inventors and Innovators Awards for her solar evaporation refrigerator. Made from sustainable materials, it enables developing countries to refrigerate medicines and food without electricity.

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