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...year in "Euroland" (the 11 nations that use the euro as a trading currency). Japan is crawling out of recession, and though growth there is feeble, it has still been enough to hold the yen steady against the dollar. Europeans point out too that there are growing opportunities for high-tech investment on their continent, if not quite as many as in the U.S. A new index of European technology stocks rose two-thirds last year...
...wasn't thinking too much about finals. He was more concerned with raising $10 million by the fall--and then giving it away. A native of (where else?) Palo Alto, Calif., Newman just happens to be a budding venture capitalist, one of the early-stage investors who fund high-tech ventures before they go public, in exchange for a potentially lucrative stake. His fledgling fund, Paradigm Blue, plans to give about $500,000 to promising dorm-room start-ups that can't possibly get a meeting with the cozy club of old-line...
...Airlines, and Rakesh Gangwal is president and CEO of U.S. Airways) or, as consultants and securities analysts, telling others how to do so. (Calcutta-born Rajat Gupta, managing director of consulting giant McKinsey & Co., does both.) But above all, they are bringing their own entrepreneurial stamp to America's high-tech frontiers. Venture-capital fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's biggest VC firms, says 40% of its portfolio consists of companies founded or managed by people of Indian origin. Indians have one of the highest per capita incomes of any immigrant group...
According to AnnaLee Saxenian, an associate professor of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley, about one-third of the engineers in Silicon Valley are of Indian descent, while 7% of valley high-tech firms are led by Indian ceos. Some successes are well known, such as Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and Sabeer Bhatia, who founded HotMail and sold it to Microsoft for $400 million. The number of Indian American New Economy millionaires is in the thousands. Massachusetts' Gururaj Deshpande, co-founder of a number of network-technology companies, is worth between $4 billion...
...that a cybercriminal world of conspiratorial smugglers, scofflaws, crooked banks and tax evaders is impossible. Such countries already exist. It's just that they're not anyone's idea of high-tech paradise. They are places like Bulgaria...