Our preferred approach is to focus on well-established tech companies that pay solid dividends.
In recent years, several well-known tech titans have stepped up to the podium to speak to graduates.
That was back in 2006 when he merged his young firm Westbridge Capital Partners with the well-known tech investor Sequoia Capital.
In 2007, a married couple with well-paid tech jobs in Singapore saw a prototype of a Japanese electric car and had a revelation.
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Esther Dyson, a well-known tech investor, is one participant.
That is the kind of story that has defined the most famous initial public offerings of Silicon Valley, but it never materialized for Facebook, perhaps the most well-known tech IPO of all.
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Why do these founders seemingly have no interest in joining outside boards while other well-known tech executives who I mentioned in my post like Meg Whitman of HP (HPQ), Henrique De Castro of Yahoo (YHOO), and even Tim Cook of Apple (AAPL) see it as important to do?
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The SEC seems to have understood the diversity of interests here: brick-and-mortar companies as well as high-tech pioneers, investors who live in the digital media and investors who may not even own a computer.
When prices are low, oil-rich countries welcome the low-cost, high-tech and well-capitalised oil firms.
Both Singh and Hariri say that if they could do anything they'd head up a well-known California-based tech operation, probably because it is one of the coolest creative companies in the world.
Though not famous like Sally Ride, young Burnham was plenty well-known inside the tech finance cathedrals as the top-gun Web analyst for CS First Boston.
Chang is also a bass guitarist in Punjabi funk band BlackMahal, as well as tech-exec cover band CoverFlow.
But there is a backlash over whether the equipment is overused on patients with ordinary back pain who would do just as well with low-tech treatment.
As an example, Pell pointed to platinum, a valuable commodity which is a critical part of catalytic converters for cars as well as clean-tech fuel cells.
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However, this is because Apple is only in the very initial stages of penetrating the Chinese market, which means that the iPhone is being adopted only by the very affluent and well educated tech-lover.
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The Nasdaq was up 42 points, or 1.3%, to 3, 224 Tuesday, but remains well below its tech-bubble highs.
It is well-known that big tech companies are spending billions amassing patent portfolios and wielding them as competitive weapons against each other and their smaller challengers.
Elliot is a well-known agitator in tech world.
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Participating companies include manufacturers such as United Technologies (nyse: UTX - news - people ) and Eastman Kodak (nyse: EK - news - people ) , as well as tech outfits like Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) and IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ).
Green Dot is trying to cast a wider net by going after consumers who are dissatisfied with their traditional bank accounts as well as younger, tech-savvy consumers who constantly use mobile phones, thanks largely to social-networking apps.
Increasingly, overseas business experience has become a well-scrutinized section in a top tech business leader CV.
However, potential risks include controlling unexpected behavior by these high-tech programs as well as auditing the trading patterns of algorithmic techniques.
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It was, though, jeans and a black blazer, a variation on the well-known stage uniform of fellow tech mogul Steve Jobs.
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There is clearly a demonstrated global market for Boeing airplanes and Caterpillar construction and agricultural machinery, as well as a host of high-tech and fashion-related products now being churned out in factories scattered across the country.
Dubai's energetic, tax-hating ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, is pushing hard to make the state a regional high-tech center as well, one reason he looked favorably upon the founding five years ago of The American University in Dubai (where yours truly gave the spring commencement address).
Such apps are advantageous because they use technology that most young people already are well-acquainted with, said Don Thornton, whose Las Vegas-based tech company staged the February workshop.
Two, military high-tech has generally transferred well into the private sector.
Omidyar has sold only 5% of his Ebay shares so far, but has small investments in conventional stocks and bonds, as well as a few investments in high-tech startups.
Thus armed, day traders are adding a high-tech twist to the well-worn momentum game that exchange-floor traders have played for decades: Buy when markets are rising and sell when they turn south.
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