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...consumer, these products exemplify Thoreau's celebrated "simplicity." The company's best-seller is a drink you can buy at Store 24 for a little over a dollar. Its two main ingredients are sugar and water, and it comes in a plastic bottle with a twist-off cap and coated wrap-around paper label. That...
...NASDAQ's close last Monday, the San Jose, Calif., Internet router maker emerged as the most valuable company in the world, with a market capitalization of $555 billion, more than $13 billion ahead of the reigning cap king, Microsoft. This shifting of the tech-tonic plates represents more than just Cisco's success and uncertainty over Microsoft's legal problems. In fact, it provides a pretty good road map of the post-PC landscape into which our economy and volatile stock market are heading...
Previous turnovers of the market-cap champs, such as 1998's passing of the belt from General Electric to Microsoft, were useful indicators. Microsoft's emergence bespoke information technology as the driving force in our economy, supplanting consumer goods, aerospace and financial services as the sectors that investors most expected to outperform the rest of the market. The same point could have been made in 1993, when GE surpassed Exxon (consumer goods trumped oil), or a hundred years ago, when John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil was a monopolistic market bully and trust-busting wasn't even a slogan...
...backbones for voice communication. Wireless networks loom as the next important phase of the Web. And then there's biotechnology, in which all these new systems are being applied to the natural sciences. And what about nanotechnology, with its tiny self-replicating machines? So, who will be the market-cap kings in 10 years? One thing you can be sure of--you haven't heard of them...
When I left Washington, D.C., for Washington State four years ago, a friend at Justice gave me a DOJ baseball cap as a joke. I wore it last Halloween, calling it the scariest costume I could think of. But many people didn't think that was very funny. The sense of grievance was too raw. DOJ antitrust chief Joel Klein is actually a friend of mine. (He's not the one who gave me the hat.) When I tell people this, they are sometimes amazed--not at my brazen name dropping or at the idea that I once traveled...