Word: tech
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...Euroland" (the 11 nations that use the euro as a trading currency). Japan is crawling out of recession, and though growth there is feeble, it has still been enough to hold the yen steady against the dollar. Europeans point out too that there are growing opportunities for high-tech investment on their continent, if not quite as many as in the U.S. A new index of European technology stocks rose two-thirds last year...
...investment strategist of Deutsche Bank Securities, elaborates: "I go to Europe, Japan, have overseas investors coming to see me in my New York City office, and to a large extent they all want to be invested in technology. And it's very hard to find enough names of high-tech companies to invest in abroad. If you want to invest in technology, you've got to invest in U.S. companies...
...wasn't thinking too much about finals. He was more concerned with raising $10 million by the fall--and then giving it away. A native of (where else?) Palo Alto, Calif., Newman just happens to be a budding venture capitalist, one of the early-stage investors who fund high-tech ventures before they go public, in exchange for a potentially lucrative stake. His fledgling fund, Paradigm Blue, plans to give about $500,000 to promising dorm-room start-ups that can't possibly get a meeting with the cozy club of old-line...
Newman has already raised some $8 million. Until recently it wasn't too hard, even for an undergraduate, to line up donations. As long as tech stocks were pushing the NASDAQ index to record highs, VCs could take scores of seedling companies public before they had time to fail, and walk away with triple-digit gains. The recent market downturn doesn't seem to faze Newman. "We're taking a long-term view," he says, like a Silicon Valley...
...nemesis, Microsoft, writhing in the clutches of the courts. That could be about to change, as the Internet giant finds itself under the microscopes of the ounce-of-prevention trustbusters over its purchase of Time Warner. And the feds are giving Steve Case some hints as to how a tech behemoth should act. Lesson 1, according to Wednesday's Wall Street Journal: Instant Messaging, the real-time, buddy-listed way to chat online that's more popular with teenagers than 'N Sync and is widely expected to be next frontier of all things e-. AOL owns 90 percent...