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...that point the home team was at the bottom of the lobbying league. California's Silicon Valley remains home to the high-tech industry's loudest political megaphone, TechNet. Based in Palo Alto, it gives campaign donations in roughly equal proportions to Republicans and Democrats and serves as a clearinghouse for information and policy proscriptions about the new economy. But Chuck Manatt's pleading and Mark Bisnow's bus tour persuaded the upstart firms in Virginia and Maryland to band together to give TechNet a run for its PAC money. Led by AOL, Washington-area tech companies formed CapNet last...
Lawmakers certainly need instruction. What most legislators know about the Internet would fill a Post-it note. Such ignorance is bliss for the high-tech industry. Not since the days of oil barons and railway tycoons has Washington been so in the thrall of a group of corporate executives...
Both political parties and their presidential candidates have been bidding shamelessly for high-tech affections, and e-companies have won a string of victories in Congress as a result. These include a moratorium on new taxes on e-commerce, limitations on lawsuits against firms involved in Y2K glitches, and a bill that accepts the validity of personal signatures sent over...
...founder Marc Andreessen to BlackBerrys (a new model of handheld e-mail device). Other subjects have included woman investors, venture-capital funding, the political battle over high-tech immigration policy, e-commerce, wiring at the Pentagon and spreading the dotcom wealth in northern Virginia. "Shannon is absolutely the No. 1 tech reporter in Washington," says Christie Hart, marketing manager at the Draper Atlantic venture-capital firm in Reston, Va. "She takes all the high-tech jargon, the acronyms, the slang, and makes it readable and understandable." Born in New York City and raised in Maryland, Henry studied English at Boston...
...office of Oliver Carr, the city's premier bricks-and-mortar developer for the past 40 years, now belongs to James V. Kimsey, co-founder of America Online and the guy who brought the new economy to Washington's doorstep by keeping AOL in his hometown. He entered the high-tech world in the early '80s when he became chief executive of Control Video Corp., an interactive-games company. Then Kimsey hired a kid from Pizza Hut named Steve Case. In 1985 he and Case started Quantum Computer Services, the company that became AOL, now a $135 billion giant that...