Between 1950 and 1980, when the IPOs finally took off, we had national economies, followed by international business overlapping with the PC wave and globalized business in line with the networked computing wave.
Fierce competition in the credit card business and a wave of huge mergers concentrated the industry in the hands of a few major players: Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Capital One Financial and American Express.
SAP's tool, called Gravity, lets users design business processes in Wave, while Novell's Pulse, a stand-alone product that will be released in 2010, will add security features, an improved chat function and live editing of Microsoft Office documents.
Hollywood's latest wave of business bashing is far from over, says Mr. Batmanglij.
It represents a new transformative wave of business innovation that extends capabilities beyond the four walls of a company.
The combination of business model design and customer and agile development is the first wave of tools that help founders search for a business model.
With the synth-heavy, up-tempo Permalight, Rogue Wave is back in business and powering ahead into sunnier days.
But in the last 18 months the PC business has been hit by a wave of innovation sparked by hardware and Windows 8.
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The portal's acquisition of the photo-sharing site Flickr was hailed by some as a sign that it could freshen up its business model by tapping into the wave of Web-friendly start-ups that emerged in the wake of the 2001 tech bust.
It reported that business in Britain was chafing under a wave of taxation and regulation by Tony Blair's government.
The catastrophic earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan has produced a ripple effect on global business that reaches far beyond any seismic wave.
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Nevertheless, several people in the hedge fund business say there is no huge redemption wave hitting the industry and, by and large, big institutional investors have elected to remain heavily invested in hedge funds for 2013.
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There is no question that there is a hugely important social wave rolling across the world of business and marketing today.
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As one might expect, the international airline industry is less than enthusiastic about this new wave of governmental intervention into its business practices.
While most have welcomed the outsourcing wave, some American companies view this business method as a deterioration of available U.S. jobs.
So of course the U.S. Senate is expected to vote next week on a plan to unleash a wave of new tax audits on American business.
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No wonder that equities, even those of blue-chip companies with solid balance sheets and pretty good business prospects, are taking a hit amid this wave of uncertainty.
Whether the solution is carbon capture or nukes, the capital cost of keeping carbon out of the air is going to be gigantic, and the economically painful process will probably set off a wave of mergers in the electric power business.
The aftermath of the dot-com bust may seem like an odd place for a venture capital firm to get its start, but that was the case for Emergence Capital and in the decade-plus since the firm started it has eschewed the consumer-centric booms and blowups of the first wave of the Internet in favor of business-focused services.
Yes, and business women of every generation should be riding the bow-wave of change.
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Companies that have achieved critical mass in terms of advertiser, publisher and consumer base, product portfolio, technology and business teams, are going to be able to ride the wave.
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Cloud computing as the next IT wave has significantly reduced the cost of launching any new business venture.
Banking is on another wave of consolidation, and bank lending is still an underdeveloped business inGreece.
Above all, these are qualities that contribute to an elevated way of living and doing business, and frankly all that we do, catalyzing the kind of wave that will launch and sustain us on a new journey.
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The digital wave will be "a brutal attack on the underpinnings of our business, " warns Garth Ancier, who oversees programming at CNN, the WB network, TBS and other AOLTime Warner outlets.
The new wave of more-convenient-to-own cloud-based business software, which began last decade with Salesforce, Netsuite and Workday, has swelled to dozens of startups now hitting the enterprise market with flexible pricing, mobile access and tools that make doing business as easy as using Facebook.
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Didn't it happen to most of American business in the 1980s, when the junk bond and LBO dealsters brought on a wave of downsizing?
That kind of social change, driven as much by business as by government or nongovernmental organizations, is bringing major benefits to the next wave of emerging economies in the Middle East, Africa, India, and elsewhere.
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As a minister, I welcomed the chance to deliver the parliament's first cut in business rates, to introduce enterprise education for every child and to kick start new wave and tidal projects to release Scotland's potential to be the renewable energy powerhouse of Europe.
Eric Winsborrow of Sipera Systems says that the wave of threats has been brought on by VoIP's new popularity in the business world as well as the technology's growing connection to the Internet at large, instead of smaller networks.
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