Word: siliconing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Silicon Valley guys like to smirk, calling him the Wal-Mart of the tech world. But Michael Dell, 39, is having the last laugh. What started as a $1,000 investment, and was launched in his dorm room at the University of Texas, is today the world's No. 1 computer maker in market share, thanks to a relentless focus on selling direct to the consumer. First came desktops and notebooks, then servers and storage, and now printers and flat-screen TVs. The company racked up $41 billion in sales last year and wants to boost that to $80 billion...
...Whitman, 47, is not just the genial host at this giant party, picking up a fee for each listing and a small percentage of each sale. She's also the quiet giant of the Internet world, one of a mere handful of Silicon Valley CEOs who survived the dotcom bubble with her reputation unscathed. A business veteran, she cut her teeth in the top echelons of Disney, Hasbro and Procter & Gamble, resurrecting failing brands like Keds shoes and FTD florists. When she was offered her current job in 1998, Whitman was highly skeptical. Why leave everything she had built...
...Mumbai is the New York of India, and Bangalore is the Silicon Valley,” Vietor said...
...decide to open an office in India, it would be their sixth such research center, adding to branches in Paris, Hong Kong, Japan, Buenos Aires, and Silicon Valley. Most of the centers have a director and one or two research associates who help HBS faculty conduct research in their region...
...Governor gets requests from all across the country to help candidates. The President will be one of those he helps." ROB STUTZMAN, spokesman for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, after the Governor missed a Silicon Valley fund raiser for President Bush to attend meetings in Sacramento...