Marketplace host David Brancaccio talks with attorney Robert Swift about the process. Ten years ago, The Sony Corporation bought Columbia Pictures. Reporter Carol Gray takes a look at how that deal is working out. But, changing F.D.A. rules have made it difficult to get things off the ground. Eve Epstein reports on this start-up's roller coaster ride.
Many people blame the net for newspapers' declining readership.
But, the Web offers opportunities as well as competition for print papers as Marketplace's Michelle Brier reports. Ten years ago, Japan's economy seemed impenetrable to foreigners. Marketplace's Eve Epstein looks at how far opening to the world has come in Japan. Today, it's still the first line of defense in the battle against the deadly disease. Marketplace's Helen Palmer explores how AZT has changed the drug industry and people's lives.