Today this means investing in technology, health care and financial services (baby-boomers save for retirement).
Dutta also said the Mideast has been investing in technology and moving up the list.
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While angels are best known for investing in technology ventures, they also fund many other types of start-ups.
Local firms, such as Bharat Forge, have been shedding unskilled labour, investing in technology and building brands and distribution overseas.
Vattenfall, a Swedish nuclear utility, is investing in technology to remove carbon from its newish coal plants in eastern Germany and Poland.
He now thinks that the pendulum may have swung too far the other way, with many private-equity firms regarding investing in technology as easy.
Talk is cheap and while many banks talk about investing in technology to bring about change, very few seem to be walking the talk.
If Wal-Mart and other big retailers are investing in technology to improve customers' shopping experience, smaller fry like Bruce have no choice but to keep up.
Just as Prime Computers made private-equity firms think that tech deals were impossibly hard, Seagate has transformed their view of investing in technology, says Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School.
They pulled out of agreements with Ovshinsky after investing in technology that he declared was nearly ready, only to be left with lighter pockets and little in the way of profitable products.
But over time, we were able to develop such a deep pool of buyers and such a large amount of assets for sale that we had to really start investing in technology to make the process more scalable, more efficient.
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If there were economic advantages to investing in technology that depends on taxpayer support, companies like Beacon Power, Evergreen Solar, Solar Millenium, SpectraWatt, Solyndra, Ener1 and the Renewable Energy Development Corporation would be prospering instead of filing for bankruptcy in only the past few months.
It includes investing in nuclear technology, investing in clean energy technologies.
But the United States has managed to maintain its supremacy in cotton by investing heavily in technology.
It has outlined ten key commitments for the future, including investing in new technology, building partnerships with customers and suppliers and investing in infrastructure now to save on long-term costs.
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While Intel Capital invests across the technology spectrum, it is adept at investing in the technology that is behind the flashy consumer applications, Sodhani said in an interview.
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But while Romney is against Cape Wind, he has been bullish on investing in green technology.
Politicians tend to favor old school road works, fixing potholes and building new roads instead of investing in unseen technology.
Such spectacular drops in fraud are more commonplace in the developing world, where mobile operators now investing in the technology.
Investing heavily in technology--at one-tenth the cost of foreign banks, he claims--ICICI could offer First World banking services at Indian prices.
More than half of respondents indicated that they are augmenting their marketing team and investing in new technology to handle the influx of customer data.
That means they can diversify away from memory today, when the market is bad, but return when conditions improve, while investing in new technology and capacity.
Bob Cornick of Zebra Technologies , a manufacturer of printer-encoders, says Wal-Mart broke that paradigm, as companies debated investing in a technology or waiting to see how it grows.
We started investing in cloud technology about six years ago with the advent of virtualization, which enabled the pooling of machines so you can aggregate larger chunks of compute power.
If producers directly bear the cost of recycling, they are more likely to want to drive down costs by investing in recycling technology and developing appliances that are easy to recycle.
It is an imperative that transportation companies look for alternatives to dirty fuels , and while re-engineering our businesses to reduce our carbon footprint, we're investing in clean technology and partnering with companies committed to doing business responsibly.
Rick, have you been reading over at my blog, just kidding here but not many covered the China Gate story and I caught it too when it was happening and yes the insurers are investing heavy in technology, United has been doing this for a long time and made several acquisitions last year alone.
The New York Times woke many with a start over the weekend when it reported in its Sunday edition on a school in Arizona investing lots of money in technology but seemingly getting few results from the investment, as student test scores remained stagnant.
The majority of people by a wide margin think we should be investing in science and technology.
Since that time, Shani has managed to scale his fortune through founding, investing in and selling technology companies.
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