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...list, compiled with the help of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, technology consultants and bankers, is made up of the leaders of tech companies with global potential and the relationship brokers who are helping European companies link up with venture capitalists and the world?s tech élite. Some on the list are out to prove the promise of digital content. Others hope to leverage technology to make major breakthroughs in treating disease...
...Forward Spin: Nokia is clearly feeling the impact of the worldwide economic slowdown. But if Ollila is right, wireless and broadband will be the drivers that will restore growth to the tech industry...
...fact, he oversees Microsoft's mobile solution centers in Europe, North America, Japan and China. The stakes are huge: tech consultancy Ovum predicts that in five years 46% of the world's 1.95 billion cell phone owners will be using wireless data services. Microsoft is not only competing with Symbian in mobile operating systems, but also positioning itself against Finnish phone maker Nokia in "middleware," the software platforms that mobile phone operators will use (see No. 2, Jorma Ollila...
...Vieux, who was born in Paris of Haitian extraction, is a consummate matchmaker who never stops schmoozing. Dividing his time between California and Paris, he knows all the U.S. tech titans and takes pride in ferreting out foreign start-ups that will interest them...
...serves on the boards of four public tech companies, including Check Point Software, an Israel-based Nasdaq firm that makes security software, and advises four venture capital funds. That's in his spare time. Vieux's main job is running DASAR, which he formed to connect entrepreneurs with venture capitalists and the heads of large tech companies...