Technology leaders like AOL, Indeed.com, Cisco, will help connect military spouses and veterans with employers that are hiring.

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Likewise, investors who bet against the dot.com stocks in early 2001 made a killing as the dot.com bubble burst Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), for instance, is trading near 80 percent below its 2000 peak.

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Coalition partners contributing to the resource base include the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, AVG, Cisco, Constant Contact, docstoc.com, HP, Intacct.com, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, and Squareup.com.

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In this analogy, Japan is Cisco and the United States is Pets.com.

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As a top Silicon Valley tech banker, first at Deutsche Bank and later at Credit Suisse First Boston, he presided over 175 initial public offerings, including those for Cisco Systems , Intuit , Netscape and Amazon.com .

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According to documents received by Forbes.com, Warner Music Group has spent months negotiating with networking giant Cisco Systems to use a nascent technology called Cisco Eos to simplify the music company's management of a large catalog of band Web sites.

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But it's much harder to train students to go out and start the next Amazon.com (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ), Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), or eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ).

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Though HP's Procurve line of switches already compete with Cisco's hardware, the 3Com deal will offer HP far more firepower in the war to own the corporate data center. 3Com, a dot-com boom and bust veteran, recently launched a new series of data center switches that compete directly with Cisco's Nexus switching line and cost about 40% less on average, according to the Yankee Group.

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