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...founded in 1987, TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, has become a global leader, building microchips for everything from PCs to cell phones while leaving the design to others. This approach has freed small chip designers from having to build their own factories, resulting in more competition and innovation. Despite the global tech slump, Chang just announced a $20 billion expansion...
...since the sauna have the Finns produced anything as popular as the NOKIA mobile phone. That's mostly thanks to the charming, bookish CEO, who holds master's degrees in economics, engineering and politics. Ollila, 51, has transformed the 136-year-old firm from a faceless conglomerate to a tech wunderkind. He is now leading an industry-wide movement to create an open standard for Internet services delivered by wireless phones...
FACE UP TO BAD NEWS. Just as International Truck keeps its unions informed about its finances in good times and bad, Cisco Systems has held firmly, amid the tech recession, to its policy of revealing all product bugs on a public Web page as soon as a problem is reported. In contrast, companies such as Microsoft have been criticized for keeping glitches a secret. Cisco's bug database and online message board help programmers and customers avoid massive problems and share fixes. Says Reichheld, who has studied Cisco's approach: "Loyalty is impossible without trust. And trust is impossible without...
MILLER: Yes. The S&P remains overvalued relative to the rest of the market. I'd be especially wary of big tech. But there are pockets of value...
Beyond the early adopters—the enthusiasts and the visionaries—lies the Holy Grail of technology markets, the multi-billion dollar markets held by the pragmatic majority that tech startups try so hard to woo. The problem is that the majority thinks very differently from the early adopters. They want complete solutions; they don’t like to take risks. And that means that a product that does everything right for the early adopters will never sell well to the majority unless the company making it drastically changes the way it markets the device, stressing...