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...breakthrough came in 2004 with Paranoia, set in a high-powered telecom firm in a fictional Silicon Valley locale. He followed Paranoia, his first New York Times best seller, with another, Company Man, about the old-line office-furniture industry. Finder had found his niche: John Grisham--like thrillers starring business people instead of lawyers. Finder is careful to explain, though, that his books rely on human emotion, not corporate scheming, for their drama. "They're not about high finance," he says. "They're a portrait of life in the corporate world, with regular people...
Inveneo was launched in 2004 by three Silicon Valley veterans--Mark Summer, 36; Kristin Peterson, 45; and Bob Marsh, 59--who share a passion for high tech and an interest in the developing world. They had done enough volunteer work overseas to see how wireless communications might improve and save lives--through phone calls to health clinics, fast reporting of natural disasters, support for trading co-ops and better educational opportunities...
...last decade, the world has experienced a series of brutal deflationary shocks. They started with the collapse of the Mexican peso in the mid-1990s. In 1997, much of eastern Asia's flourishing economy was leveled. Next were Russia, Turkey and Argentina; Brazil teetered on the brink. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley, the pride of the U.S. economy, was crashing, while entire sectors of the so-called new economy disintegrated. And Japan, the world's second largest economy, was locked in a financial crisis redolent of the 1930s. After the tech wreck, everything from state-of-the-art fiber-optic networks...
...wife and I, natives of Bangladesh, worked at engineering and managerial jobs in California's Silicon Valley for more than 20 years before deciding to return home in 2005. A key factor that helped us decide was the growth of the economy. TIME's cover story validated our thinking. Your story, however, placed too little emphasis on entrepreneurs and development visionaries and too much emphasis on the politicians. Progress in Bangladesh has come because of the efforts of the former and despite the petty bickering of the latter. Ihtisham Kabir Dhaka...
...billion dollars it’s not, but Facebook.com has snagged $25 million in venture capital investments from three Silicon Valley firms...