The descriptions you gave below can apply to a number of high tech firms in the valley.
Exclude remnants of the Bell system and only four high tech firms make the top fifty: IBM, Intel, Motorola and Microsoft.
The irony is that as technology makes it easier and easier for large corporations to do with less and less people, the high tech firms themselves are adding headcount at a furious pace.
Egalitarianism has mainly been a feature of high-tech firms, though not only of start-ups: the authors compiled figures on 100 big high-tech firms and found that on average employees owned 33% of those companies' equity, of which 14% was held by the top managers and 19% by other employees.
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"Energy can learn from the history of the tobacco industry, mining from the high-tech realm, and high-tech firms from the consumer products companies of two or three decades ago, " says Baerman.
Earlier, seven high-tech firms pledged to help reshape Hong Kong into a high-tech hub including Motorola, Nortel, 3M and local enterprise VTech.
In such cases, stringent regulation might hinder the adoption of technology by existing firms, or restrict the entry of new high-tech firms.
But it isn't just high-tech firms in the computer capitol of the world that are taking advantage.
Book value falls short for high-tech firms, whose assets tend to be intangibles like research and development.
But it does lie on the M4 corridor, a cluster of high-tech firms that includes several names familiar from Silicon Valley.
What is more plausible is that the Microsoft case will embolden the antitrust agencies to pursue other dominant, combative high-tech firms.
High-tech firms (not all of them struggling), such as Motorola, Hewlett-Packard and Yahoo, have led the way in appointing outside chief executives.
Life sciences companies had 23 IPOs, and non-high-tech firms posted seven IPOs.
Many high-tech firms learnt a similar lesson when the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan wiped out some crucial suppliers to the semiconductor industry.
Home to hundreds of high-tech firms, the city has seen its population increase fivefold over the past decade as it grew into Finland's Silicon Valley.
If this comes to pass, the high-tech firms that remain may wonder why they fought so long to keep trade barriers when innovation worked even better.
Founders of high-tech firms, who once hoped to make their fortunes with an IPO, now pray that a big firm such as Google will buy them.
Among consumer web startups and high-tech firms, the talent wars have taken on a new ferocity, yet unemployment remains stuck around 9% and shows few signs of improving.
The center has about 2, 600 employees after billions of dollars in state investment, but has also attracted some of the world's top high-tech firms to set up shop.
In her victory speech, she said that she would represent the whole state, not just the booming region around Seattle where Microsoft, RealNetworks and so many other high-tech firms are based.
Thanks to the threat of Nasdaq Japan, which plans to launch a market for high-tech firms this summer, it even started a new market for growth companies, called Mothers, in December.
The pace of acquisitions among high-tech firms is remarkable.
In Japan, where Softbank is the favored partner for U.S. high-tech firms, Microsoft introduced CarPoint, its Internet auto locator service after offering 50% to Softbank and another 10% to Yahoo Japan, where CarPoint will be the exclusive car-buying service.
Because of the growth of high-tech firms, whose executives show little interest in party politics or ideology, the Republicans are not getting the automatic business support they once depended on from property developers and aerospace companies, old stalwarts of the California economy.
Israel already boasts some 4, 000 high-tech firms, with nearly 1, 000 startups annually, more than in any other country except the U.S. This feat is even more astonishing coming from an economy that is one of the most overtaxed and overregulated in the world.
Such investments have stimulated clusters of high-tech local firms.
Freeserve was one of the high tech, new economy firms that made a spectacular entry into the list of FTSE 100 firms this spring.
Mr Dunlap himself admits that his approach will not work for many high-tech or knowledge-intensive firms.
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