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Before she was indicted last summer, Stewart handed the reins to Citigate Sard Verbinnen, the crisis-management firm that Hewlett-Packard's Carly Fiorina used to help win a brutal proxy battle to take over Compaq. Once Citigate took the helm, Stewart starting getting her message out with careful prime-time interviews and the Internet. Within hours of her indictment, Citigate launched marthatalks.com which posts notes from well-wishers and upbeat messages from Stewart. The site has received more than 16 million hits and 81,000 e-mails...
...came up with a way to mass-produce silicon transistors, a discovery that opened the door to developing desktop computers and cell phones and spawned companies like Intel. In 1972, he co-founded Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, a venture-capital firm that helped establish more than 300 companies, including Compaq and Sun Microsystems...
...DIED. EUGENE KLEINER, 80, engineer and Silicon Valley pioneer whose venture-capital firm helped establish Sun Microsystems, Compaq and Amazon.com; in Los Altos Hills, California. Kleiner, who fled his native Austria in 1938, co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957, which developed a technique for mass producing silicon transistors. Fifteen years later, he helped establish the venture-capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, which gave seed money to more than 300 companies, including many tech powerhouses...
EVEN FASTER FOOD With its juicy burgers and extra-thick shakes, this Burgermaster, near Seattle, has lots of old-fashioned appeal. But the drive-in burger shop is surprisingly high-tech: waitresses punch orders into wi-fi-enabled Compaq iPaq handhelds. The typical meal takes just seven minutes to go from the iPaq to your...
...corporate and government accounts, though many such customers are exploring other options. It has also grabbed some local residential customers from the Baby Bells, reached a partial settlement with the SEC and built up a healthy cash reserve of close to $2 billion. Most important, it has lured former Compaq head and Hewlett-Packard president Michael Capellas to take on the reclamation project...