Trends in the News
 
- Cellphone Ads Are Easier Pitch in China (WSJ, Jan. 4)
China's pool of mobile-phone users has proved a lucrative market for companies peddling everything that can be distributed wirelessly, from songs to pictures to games. Advertisers are looking to cash in, too.
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Influencers
 
- Spencer Ante: The Return Of The Tech IPO; Silicon Valley pundits are predicting 2007 will be the biggest year since 2000 (BusinessWeek, Jan. 8)
When the stock market reached the height of irrational exuberance in 2000, the bubble was filled largely with the hopes of technolog...

Emerging Technology
 
- Hybrid technology to speed laptop start-up (USA Today, Jan. 4)
Patience may be a virtue, but when it comes to getting faster boot-up times for computers, no one will complain. That's why a new industry alliance is promoting a hybrid technology to speed the start-up pr...

Top-Tier Newsmakers
 
Amazon
 
Electronics Help Amazon Post Record-Setting Holiday Orders (NYT, Dec. 27)
The Web retailer Amazon.com’s 2006 holiday season peaked with more than four million orders placed on Dec. 11. That broke last year’s single-day record of more than 3.6 million order...