Word: high-tech
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thirty-five-year-old Michael J. Saylor, MIT alum and CEO of high-tech company MicroStrategy, is trying to do exactly that...
...that proposed by Saylor; in both, students sign up for courses and can get a degree without ever stepping foot in a classroom. Yet, degrees earned through established correspondence courses are commonly held to be inferior to those earned at universities. An online university would simply be the high-tech version of the correspondence course...
Then came the rise of dotcoms. Richard believed satellite transmission of the Internet to TV sets in China and India would be his future, and his Pacific Century Group got $50 million in backing from Intel for that dream in 1998. His next big deal was to develop a high-tech "Cyberport" on a prime piece of land donated by the Hong Kong government--without, strangely, the territory's usual process of taking bids from potential developers. He then created Pacific Century CyberWorks through a so-called back-door listing on the Hong Kong exchange, a procedure in which...
...large industrial park with new and extensively renovated buildings faces industrial warehouses fitted for high-tech and biotech firms...
...count Microsoft, or the NASDAQ, or the high-tech industry, out just yet. While the government is now technically compelled to take action that will change Microsoft's business - many think Jackson will seek to break the firm into a bunch of "Baby Bills" when he produces his "remedy" in August - Bill Gates and his Redmond buddies are widely expected to appeal the decision, a process that could drag on for years. In the meantime, the whole nature of the computer-sofware-Internet business will have changed...