It was generally agreed to have the best sales force in tech, the best-run organization and some of the cleverest marketing.
That, it turns out, is where green-tech wonders like the Segway work best--and where the subway works even better.
For all the seductive talk of rebalancing the economy, of reviving manufacturing, of supporting the creative industries, high-tech start-ups or whatever, the best thing that any new government can do for enterprise is to restore the public finances and stop dominating the credit markets.
There are local funds aimed at high-tech companies, and 3i, Britain's best-known venture-capital firm, has its biggest office outside London in Cambridge.
Joe Tucci, the longstanding CEO of data-storage giant EMC, one of the best-respected bosses in tech, sits down for a conversation about leadership and the prospects for data.
Mr Hope is a fervent believer that a combination of hi-tech and the creative industries is Britain's best hope for growth - and he should know.
Partnering with some of the best emerging tech start-ups to pilot their ideas with our brands allows us not only to develop cutting-edge brand activations, it also provides PepsiCo with access to some of the brightest minds in digital.
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To help answer that, I sought the advice of Oracle president Mark Hurd, one of the best-known tech-industry executives in the world and a business leader who probably has as many or more discussions with CEOs as well as CIOs as any executive on the planet.
Today's students depend on technology to live, work and play, and today's colleges have to provide high-tech tools in order to attract the best applicants.
But most experts don't see that strategy as the best alternative in a high-tech world that has more reality-TV-loving consumers demanding an interactive process.
Texas Tech, best known for its engineering and agriculture-oriented programs, for example, is thriving.
So you can combine high-tech with manufacturing, and then you get the best of all worlds.
Kansas, which has won an NCAA-best 56 overall conference regular-season titles, plays Thursday against the West Virginia-Texas Tech winner.
So to replace Wuhan's grimy old industries, the city is doing its best to encourage new, higher-tech, innovative firms.
It's one of the best long-term opportunities available to tech investors.
Yet even in the tech industry shared leadership works best when there is a power-broker behind the scenes.
Superheroes like to equip themselves with the latest in high-tech gadgetry, a plethora of weaponry, and the best vehicles ego can buy.
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Tech-wine proponents argue that these are simply tools to make the best-tasting wine possible, which sounds fair enough.
Yet some of the best new energy solutions follow this same low-tech path.
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Best of all, for Ireland, high-tech companies are a bit like lemmings: They tend to cluster together in packs following the leaders.
Best about the Spin Cone is the low-tech approach.
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Under new Chief Executive Philip Schoonover, who hails from (where else?) Best Buy, Circuit City has shamelessly cloned Best Buy's Geek Squad--troubleshooting tech types who help customers with their oft-vexing new purchases.
We're very proud of some of our high-tech industries and we think that we make some of the best products in the world, and we want to sell them to a growing Indian market.
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In tech news, Samsung announced today it plans to open mini-stores inside Best Buys (BBY) across the country.
On Monday night alone, I think the entire hour-long Bloomberg West show (the best on TV for tech stuff) was devoted to the deal.
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