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DIED. DANIEL CASE III, 44, who, as head of the high-tech banking firm Hambrecht & Quist, and later chairman of J.P. Morgan HQ, helped fuel the Internet explosion of the '90s; of brain cancer; in San Francisco. Case, brother of AOL Time Warner chairman Steve Case, financed such Silicon Valley pioneers as Apple Computer, Adobe Software and Netscape Communications...
...film industries would "leapfrog into the digital age"; and Bio-valley, a still vague attempt to spark off a Malaysian biotechnology industry. Both E-village and Bio-valley are part of the Prime Minister's Multimedia Super Corridor, a hugely ambitious?and expensive?attempt to create an Asian Silicon Valley that is floundering in the wake of the dotcom crash and the U.S. recession...
Tech start-ups have thinned, but Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bill Tai says the ideas he sees today are more practical and better executed than the ones in the boom years when, he says, "we saw a lot of passion and energy but not a lot of depth...
Though Harvard is consistently placed ahead of Stanford in national college rankings, Stanford’s weather, academic reputation, impressive sports offerings, land and proximity to Silicon Valley have poised it to become an increasingly appealing option for prospective undergraduates...
Stanford benefited enormously in the 1990s from being close to Silicon Valley—just as Silicon Valley benefited from being close to Stanford. The dot-com boom made Palo Alto one of the most attractive workplaces in the country and made many local fortunes...