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Looking back now, we recognize that Netscape was simply the blueprint, the unchoreographed start of what would become the greatest bull-market show in history. Taken to market by Frank Quattrone, the now fallen investment banker who would turn Silicon Valley greener than irrigation made the San Joaquin; nurtured by analyst Mary Meeker at Morgan Stanley, who would later admit that she was "trying to value companies without any historical valuation tools or rules;" and overfed by hyped-up traders who could buy stock online using their Netscape browser, this deal changed everything. We began to classify every company...
...panels - which resemble denim - and drape them just about everywhere. Rigid solar panels have traditionally resisted wavy walls and curvy roofs, which designers love; now they'll be able to hold the energy-producing material. The flexible solar cells, developed by Spheral Solar of Cambridge, Ontario, work by embedding silicon beads in an aluminum and plastic mesh. Each bead works like a tiny solar cell, turning light into electricity. And the material not only produces energy cleanly, but the silicon used is itself a waste product of the microchip industry. The flexible solar cells come into production next year...
...hopes to siphon off some of the steam. Provence Promotion - an association that recruits new businesses to the Marseilles area - is trying to lure successful expats back from America. Since September, the Home Sweet Home program has contacted over 5,500 French entrepreneurs and specialized workers in New York, Silicon Valley and southern California with offers to help relocate or open new businesses. The program - now targeting Atlanta, Boston and Miami - has enticed four U.S.-based French business owners to come back; another 15 are thinking about it. Director general Guy Giustini says: "We're encouraging successful entrepreneurs and skilled...
...they fear getting on the wrong side of a White House that is known to have a long memory. "The White House is pressuring them," says Congressman Bob Matsui, a California Democrat who is a member of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee and who is close to Silicon Valley technology interests. "[But] I don't know of any group of businesses that are pushing this thing...
...Afghanistan, when its technology enabled commanders at a base in, say, Tampa, Fla., to see real-time images of Afghan battlefields. Contracts soon multiplied. "The U.S. has plenty of firepower," says Kevin Landis, chief investment officer of Firsthand Funds, a tech-focused mutual-fund group in Silicon Valley. "But Frank Lanza tells them where to point it." L-3's military customers also include Canada and other NATO countries...