THE THREE ARTICLES

DONATELLO VERSACE
Donatella to Hillary: Don't Be So Manly!Posted Feb 8th 2007 12:06PM by TMZ StaffDonatella Versace thinks stylistically challenged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should sex up her image! Sashay, shante!The Italian tanorexic designer says Hills should feminize her look with skirts and dresses instead of those blobby pantsuits. Show some leg, girl! Versace told German newspaper Die Zeit, "I can understand (trousers) are comfortable but she's a woman and she is allowed to show that. She should treat femininity as an opportunity and not try to emulate masculinity in politics." You hear that, Condi?!Versace believes Clinton's signature look should consist of knee-length skirts with a short jacket in chic black, instead of her usual granny blue. Once you go black, you never go back.Donatella did mometarily retract her claws, adding, "I admire her for her determination, which will hopefully take her to the White House." Not if Barack Obama has anything to say about it!Ref:http://www.tmz.com/2007/02/08/donatella-to-hillary-dont-be-so-manly/

ZANG YIN
Richest woman becomes richer(Xinhua)Zhang Yin, who became a household name Wednesday morning for topping a recent list of China's richest people, is a billion yuan wealthier by the afternoon.Reports of her massive wealth were printed in morning newspapers yesterday and before markets closed that afternoon, share prices of Zhang's Guangdong-based Nine Dragons Paper Industries Co., Ltd. jumped 2.77 percent, adding an extra 1.1 billion yuan (139 million U.S. dollars) to her assets.Ms Zhang Yin [hurun.net]Zhang, the 49-year-old founder and chairwoman of the paper company, was reported to be the mainland's richest person with a fortune of 27 billion yuan (3.4 billion U.S. dollars)."Zhang Yin's personal assets must have increased by 1.1 billion yuan," Thursday's Xinmin Evening News quoted a company official as saying.Zhang is believed to be the wealthiest self-made woman in the world. According to Rupert Hoogewerf, who set up the Huran Report in 1999 which lists wealthy people in China. She is richer than the U.S. television host Oprah Winfrey and author of the Harry Potter series JK Rowling.However, her low profile has helped her remain largely unknown over the past years.Zhang made her first appearance on the list of richest people on the Huran Report in 2003, ranking 17th with 2.5 billion yuan. In 2005 Forbes's China Rich list, listed Zhang as 107th richest with 1.5 billion yuan, according to the Xinmin Evening News.The newspaper said Zhang's lawyer sent Rupert Hoogewerf a letter in 2003, saying that she didn't want her name on the list.Born in a soldier's family in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Zhang was the eldest sister to seven children. She went to Hong Kong in 1985 and started her career in waste paper trading with 30,000 yuan.Zhang defied financial hardships, cheating business partners and intimidation from local mafia to build up her wealth in the subsequent five years before moving to the United States with her husband in February 1990 to pursue her dream of becoming the "empress of waste paper".ref:http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2006-10/13/content_707587.htm

STEVE JOBS
Steve Jobs Talks Market Share, Innovation With UK NewspaperSteve Jobs was a busy man at the Apple Expo in Paris last week. In addition to delivering the keynote at the event, and introducing new PowerBooks during that keynote, he also granted several interviews to UK newspapers in attendance. Another such interview surfaced over the weekend in the Independent. In this interview, Mr. Jobs is quoted as saying that his company would like more market share, and that Apple is the innovation leader in the industry. He also offers up the standard BMW/Ford analogy in discussing market share later in the article. From the Independent.We would like to see our market share grow," Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, admitted to The Independent on Sunday last week at the Apple Expo held in Paris. But he argued: "Our strategy is to innovate. We are the innovator of the industry. Most of our competitors try to copy us. Our strategy has worked really well for us."Others agree. "Apple is not going to be a vendor that can buy market share, or one that can easily enter new markets," suggests Ranjit Atwal, PC industry analyst at the research firm Gartner. "It is concentrating on its existing markets, and on making sure its average selling price and revenues make it viable. Volume isn't its game."[...]"If you went to BMW and asked them why they don't outsell the Ford Taurus, they would say they don't want to make that sort of car," says Mr Jobs. "Apple has 25 million customers around the world, and our goal is to give them the best personal computer that we can, with the best operating system and some of the best applications."ref:http://www.macobserver.com/article/2003/09/22.4.shtml