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...space or last winter in the B2B space, when hundreds of start-ups were launched and dozens managed to go public before NASDAQ tanked. But the venture capitalists swear that this time it's different. For one thing, these are real companies making high(est) technology gear for blue-chip customers. More important, some companies have been showing impressive growth and real profits. JDS Uniphase last week announced quarterly net income of $114 million; sales increased 173%, to $524 million. Corning earned $525 million last year on sales of $4.7 billion. (Optical components are 70% of its sales.) Unlike...
...integrated global services like Internet access on mobile phones. But that won't make it much easier for U.S. customers to roam the globe. While the standard is the same, the frequency isn't. You'll need a dual-band phone, or else you'll have to take the chip out of your phone and put it in a European one to make calls from overseas...
...second ladies existed in almost complete obscurity. But for better or worse, those days are over, and now the views of the vice presidential candidates' wives are subject to intense scrutiny and public discussion - and we're not just talking about a rousing debate on the merits of chocolate chip versus oatmeal raisin...
Clark also wanted to reward Stanford, whose labs he used while engineering the chip for his Silicon Graphics workstations. And this was the sort of philanthropic gesture that would still leave him time to have fun running companies, building yachts and flying helicopters...
...also talent, expertise and creative ideas--the same attributes that make a profitable business. This is the sort of thinking that is "breathing fresh air into the whole world of philanthropy," says Lester Saloman, director of Johns Hopkins Center of Civil Society Studies. The venture-capital community--especially blue-chip firms like Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which has funded Google and Amazon.com among others--believes it has honed its skills at picking winners to a point where it can apply them to philanthropic work...