He left after a year, empty-handed but subsisting on tech licenses and hardware sales.
Also, professional societies or industry trade groups often publish articles on tech trends, Ms. Emerson says.
Lifehacker.com provides updates on tech trends and reviews groups of competing apps and devices.
The astonishingly weak market for personal computers continues to take a toll on tech investors.
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So Meeker took her unmitigated optimism on tech to an earlier stage in the life cycle.
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Founded in 2005, Spark focuses specifically on tech startups in media, entertainment and mobile.
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While many focus on tech companies, others target anything from fashion to social entrepreneurship.
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To an extent, the attack on tech stocks has punished firms that were not succeeding.
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Bootstrapping, the duo take programming contracts and advise start ups on tech issues to pay the bills.
My pal Andy Kessler similarly disdains market timing, although he does keep his eye on tech cycles.
Once upon a time there was an individual investor who dreamed of getting rich on tech stocks.
According to research from the very organization putting on the show, women spend more on tech than men.
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Gurian has been keen on tech stocks since 1994 and his performance has suffered in the last two years.
As we have seen from the UK government's recent focus on tech start-ups and entrepreneurship, the formula clearly works.
Gray started out a theater director, but once someone put a camcorder in her hands, she was hooked on tech.
But I did note that with all the MapGate controversy there has been no attention on tech blogs to ParentGate.
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Venture capitalist expect 2011 to be a year when they return to their roots: focusing their dollars on tech startups.
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For all the movement on tech rankings, there is only one new, or rather, returning, face to the top 15.
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None of these companies ever cut back on research and development, which paid off as spending on tech infrastucture exploded.
At Constellation the first step has been to lighten up on tech, which Zschappel admits took him a while to do.
Government used to take off some of the pressure on tech firms during recessions, but the new austerity is hitting them too.
However on tech news aggregator YCombinator the reaction was broad and delicious.
He's passing on tech upgrades for Network Associates Coliseum for now, as he awaits the possibility of a new stadium, possibly in San Jose.
Claflin agreed that, after three years bad years in corporate spending on tech, there's lots of pressure for fewer companies to offer big product lines.
"We haven't developed a comprehensive strategy for addressing this weakness in our critical infrastructure, " says Congressman Adam Putnam (R-Fla.), who sits on a subcommittee on tech issues.
These were the characters who, glued to trading terminals two years ago, persuaded themselves that the money they were making on tech stocks was due to investment genius.
Comcast and Cox were also name dropped as potential candidates to bring console-quality HD games directly to customers, based on tech from startups like Playcast, CiiNOW and Agawi.
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The quality of Amazon Instant Video is inconsistent, and Netflix, while awesome on tech and UI, seems to be getting less of the new movies and TV shows.
See more stories from Benzinga on tech stocks here.
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Bear Biggs had been predicting higher interest rates and weaker U.S. equity markets, and been roundly booed for getting it wrong by Valentine, an investor overweight on tech stocks.
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