Ericsson eric (nasdaq: eric - news - people), which offered a deal: Give up the rights to the technology, and well embrace it and help make it popular.

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Japanese handsets are among the most sophisticated in the world, and it's a market dominated by some of the toughest companies in electronics: Sharp, Panasonic, NEC (nasdaq: NIPNY - news - people ), and Sony's joint venture with Ericsson (nasdaq: ERIC - news - people ), Sony Ericsson.

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Mobile handset maker Ericsson (nasdaq: ERIC - news - people ) and STM Microelectronics have announced a joint venture that also involves NXP semiconductors.

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Then, during the 1990s and early 2000s, we funded even younger revolutionaries or, like Eric Schmidt at Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) (another midpoint boomer), managed them.

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Led by Chief Executive Eric Schmidt , Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) has lost market share to its top Chinese rival, Baidu.com (nasdaq: BIDU - news - people ).

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For instance, MIT's Eric Lander founded Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) in 1993, but that didn't stop him from being a major force in the academic effort to map the human genome.

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Eric Schmidt 's Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) has topped the Asian nation's home-grown Baidu (nasdaq: BIDU - news - people )--at least, in a customer satisfaction survey run by Keynote Systems (nasdaq: KEYN - news - people ).

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The data "are pretty astounding, " says Eric Rowinsky, ImClone's (nasdaq: IMCL - news - people ) chief medical officer.

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Wildseed was the creation of Eric Engstrom , a former Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) executive who was one of the principals behind DirectX, a series of programming interfaces widely used to create computer games.

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One of the most interesting cautionary notes comes from Merrill Lynch analyst Eric Ende, who cut his rating on OSI (nasdaq: OSIP - news - people ) to "neutral" yesterday.

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"The time is now to bring the Internet to television, " declared Eric Kim, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Digital Home Group.

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Sitting on Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people )'s board of directors is Google's chairman, Eric Schmidt.

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