Over his five-year tenure at H-P, Mr. Hurd grew the company into the world's largest information-technology provider by revenue.

WSJ: Ex-H-P CEO Receives New Job Ideas

Moreover, China's dominance of global manufacturing seems matched by India's arrival as an important provider of information-technology and other services.

ECONOMIST: The giant neighbours are more rivals than partners

Under Mr East's tenure Arm has become the provider of processor technology for nearly all mobile phones and many other consumer and industrial electronic devices in use today.

BBC: Cambridge-based smartphone chip designer boss to retire

Beginning in April 2013, Brightstar will be Target Mobile's new supply chain and point-of-activation technology provider, and MarketSource will be the in-store sales services partner.

ENGADGET: RadioShack's Target Mobile partnership to end on April 8th (update: Target picks new partners)

The technology intercepted the flow of traffic from Libya's main Internet service provider and harvested information from the stream using a method known as deep-packet inspection.

WSJ: Spy-Gear Business to Be Sold

Another of his U.S. stakes is in Tumbleweed, a Redwood City-based provider of this technology.

FORBES: The Web Phone Evangelist

"This is just one of the major benefits our community will enjoy as a result of our advanced metering technology, " said John Roukema, director of Silicon Valley Power, the community's utility provider.

NPR: Calif. City Gets Free Wi-Fi Via High Tech Meters

Barcelona, Spain, February 24, 2013 : Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today introduced the HUAWEI Ascend P2, the world's fastest smartphone, at the 2013 Mobile World Congress (MWC).

ENGADGET: Huawei Ascend P2 hitting Europe in Q2 for 399 euros, we go hands-on (update: video)