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...returns to jail, e-book publishers will have free rein to use Adobe's security restrictions on what little e-book market there is. If he returns to Moscow, Silicon Valley will breathe easy and more of us may end up reading e-books on our computers. Whether we will have paid for them is another question entirely...
Flextronics got its start in Silicon Valley in 1969 as a "board stuffing" operation back in the days when computer circuit boards were soldered and assembled by hand. In 1990, as recession struck the U.S. and much of the world, Flextronics sold off all its U.S. operations and reincorporated in Singapore; from there it operated a few factories in Southeast Asia and southern China. Flextronics grew steadily through the '90s, leveraging its early presence in Malaysia and China into a solid share of the "enclosures" market--doing final assembly for cellular phones, personal computers and printers. But when the Asian...
...would anyone think to publish this ad?” because that’s not that important. It was printed last October, and was maybe a testament to the high-flying optimism that had gripped Silicon Valley and Wall Street for four years. Or maybe it was a brand of “new economy” gospel. Or, heck, maybe it was for the 15 minutes of fame in the A section of the Wall Street Journal...
...technological innovation, jump-started by the maturation of the Internet and the rise of global communications. From these initial seeds of growth and promise came a vision of sustained productivity and prosperity for years, if not decades, to come. And here in sunny Bay Area, Ground Zero of the silicon revolution, that dream took flight carrying with it the hopes and aspirations of millions...
...arrived with bright eyes and big hopes, thinking that perhaps I could catch one tiny bit of the silicon magic that created empires out of thin air and made kings out of financiers and entrepreneurs. After all, less than a year before money had flowed everywhere, and it seemed the “dollar and a dream” was no fantasy—it was reality. Any bright-eyed dreamer or college drop-out with an idea—Sell books online! Deliver groceries over the web! A virtual petstore? Sure, why not?—could get millions...