By the mid-1980s, the CB-trucker craze had faded like disco into an obscure cultural curiosity.
It's bruited that the Israel Defense Forces will be moving forward on a plan to light up a new cellular system that will blast out SMS-CB alerts to citizens if and when a missile is fired in the direction of Israel.
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On the public market side, technology firms focused on the corporate market, such as data company Splunk and HR software company Workday, have done well in the public markets, says Anand Sanwal, CEO and co-founder of CB Insights.
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Giuliani Partners has advised the likes of insurer Aon (nyse: AOC - news - people ), CB Richard Ellis, the real estate services firm, and Entergy (nyse: ETR - news - people ), the giant New Orleans utility.
FORBES: As a businessman, he's been mixing with a sketchier crowd.
However, their hopes of a quick purchase suffered a blow when CB Holding's parent company - Straumur-Burdaras Investment Bank - had its debt payments frozen until September 2010.
In those days, the must-have gadget of the trucker craze was the CB radio, the method by which truckers kept in touch and warned each other of lurking "Smokies, " or police officers, setting speed traps.
One caveat to LLCs: If you're planning to build your brokerage into the next CB Richard Ellis Group (nyse: CBG - news - people ), be aware that it's difficult to go public using this structure.
Nextel's phones include a feature it calls Direct Connect, which lets users push a button, like the CB radios of the '70s, and talk instantly walkie-talkie style with selected users who have similar phones.
They bought CB radio sets in droves, learned a spatter of the lingo and imitated The Dukes of Hazard from Friday-night TV, while their kids learned it from the CB Bears cartoon on Saturday morning.
Silicon Valley, the nation's hub for technology, is largely seen as an industry dominated by white males and, according to the firm, CB Insights, only about one percent of Internet startups headed by African-Americans received funding for venture capitalists in the first half of 2010.
"Jerry Jr. is a one-man real estate boom, " cracks Christopher Doyle, vice president at CB Richard Ellis and the Falwells' point guy on the Candlers development.
That will soon result in more than 1, 000 seed-funded companies disappearing after not raising new capital, according to a report from CB Insights.
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Conservative investing and disciplined underwriting helped insurance biggie Chubb ( CB) ride out the recent financial storm better than a number of its property-casualty rivals.
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