Lin Tai-yi, daughter of the late historian Dr. Lin Yu-tang, places flowers before his grave at his former residence on Yangmingshan yesterday.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
Eckhard Pfeiffer, then chief executive of Compaq, left, shakes hands with Robert Palmer, chairman and CEO of Digital Equipment Corp, at a news conference in January 1998. Compaq bought Digital for US$8.55 billion in a deal that was to put the company in the same league as IBM. But Compaq's and Digital's cultures clashed and frustrated customers took their business elsewhere.
PHOTO: AP
Model Petra poses for photographers at the Vanity Fair Oscar party at Morton's in Los Angeles on Sunday. A wide range of businesses use the Oscar awards to plug their products.
PHOTO: REUTERS
