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TOP HIGH TECH NEWS
PERIOD OF TESTING BEFORE THE NEXT BOOM IN TECHNOLOGY? The Focus of
Attention on Technology Became Most Intense (100%) on 9-Feb-06. Google
Stock Price Accelerated to a Record $471.63 on 11-Jan-06, then Fell to
$358.77, Ironically, also on 9-Feb-06. Should Google Stock Price
Re-Accelerate Upward, then Such Acceleration May Be the Sign Marking the
Onset of the Next Big Boom.
May 2006
10-May-06
Jakarta,
Indonesia; Iran
Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accuses the West of hypocrisy
and "big powers" of monopolizing science and technology at
the expense of developing nations [1-3].
April 2006
25-Apr-06
Israel;
Svobodni, Russia
Israel launches from Russia
the Eros B satellite to spy on Iran [1-3].
London, UK
Researchers accuse the World Bank of "promulgating false
epidemiological statistics" and "using untransparent and
contradictory accounting" in its Roll Back Malaria campaign
[1].
11-Apr-06
Tehran, Iran
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran has joined
the world's nuclear countries [1].
Iran has successfully produced
enriched uranium at the 3.5% level using a 164-unit
centrifuge chain [4,6].
A 90% enrichment level is needed for nuclear bombs
[6].
3-Apr-06
Canberra,
Australia; China
Australia and China sign
nuclear safeguards and uranium exports
agreements [1-3].
2-Apr-06
Paris, France; Murray Hill, NJ
Alcatel to acquire Lucent
Technologies, including Bell Labs, for $13.5 billion in
stock [1-3]. Cost synergies are estimated at $1.7
billion within 3 years [1-2]; about 9,000 employees
are expected to lose their jobs [3-5].
Iran
Iran successfully test-fires
a high speed underwater missile [1-2].
1-Apr-06
New York, NY
Tens of
thousands of people demonstrate in New York in
support of immigrants' rights [1-2].
Iraq
U.S. AH-64D Apache Longbow
helicopter crashes southwest of Baghdad; 2 helicopter pilots
are dead [1]. Iraqi fighters claim they shot down the
helicopter [2]. Iraq violence kills 25 people
[2].
March 2006
23-Mar-06
Mountain View, CA
Standard & Poor’s
announces that Google Inc. will replace Burlington
Resources Inc. in the S&P 500 after the close of trading on
31-Mar-06 [1]. Google's
stock price rises 7% on 24-Mar-06 [2].
21-Mar-06
Mountain View, CA
Google Inc. launches Google Finance Beta, a new financial
information service [1].
17-Mar-06
San Jose, CA
U.S. District Judge James Ware rules that
Google Inc. does not have to turn over customer search
queries to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), but must
turn over a list limited to 50,000
indexed
Web addresses (URLs)
[1-2].
February 2006
28-Feb-06
Mountain View, CA; New York, NY;
London, UK; Paris, France; Frankfurt
am Main, Germany; Tokyo, Japan.
Shares of Google Inc. plunge about
7.1%,
closing at $362.62, after a comment by its CFO
regarding slow growth [1-2,10].
Global stock market indices plummet [3-10].
DJIA down 104.14 to 10,993.41 [3].
NYSE Composite down 79.06
to 8,060.61 [4].
NASDAQ Composite down 25.79 to 2,281.39 [5].
FTSE 100 down 84.40
to 5,791.50
[6].
CAC 40 down 80.07
to 5,000.45
[7].
DAX down 119.11 to
5,796.04
[8].
NIKKEI 225 up 12.48 to
16,205.43 (down
240.97 to 15,964.46 on 1-Mar-06)
[9].
January 2006
29-Jan-06
Mountain View, CA.
Google Inc. reportedly logs
and records all searches made on Google [1].
Some, like Jac VerSteeg, Palm Beach Post Editorial
Writer, are starting to worry about Big Business as
potential Big Brother: "Why does Google have data on
millions of individual searches?" [2].
24-Jan-06
Mountain View, CA.
Google's China site allows
for censorship by the Chinese government [1-3].
Google co-founder Sergey Brin,
born in the Soviet Union, of Jewish provenance
[4]: " . . .
we also by the way have to do similar things in the
U.S. and Germany. We also have to block certain material
based on law. The U.S., child pornography, for example, and
also DMCA" [1]. Bill
Gates, billionaire founder of Microsoft, argues at the World
Economic Forum in Davos in favor of Google's compliance with
Internet censorship in China [8]. However, Many are outraged.
Bambi Francisco: " . . . Google's announcement Tuesday that
it will comply with China's repressive laws by doctoring its
search results in that country makes a mockery of those
values" [2]. Reporters Without Borders:
"Google’s statements about respecting online privacy are the
height of hypocrisy in view of its strategy in China"
[3]. Bill Thompson: "the company's decision . . . exposed
the hollowness of its ambition to 'Do no evil' and shown
that Larry, Sergey and the others are just capitalist
monsters after all" [7].
20-Jan-06
Mountain View, CA.
Google Inc. refuses to comply
with a US Department of Justice subpoena to gather search
data for use in a suit filed against it over the Child
Online Protection Act (COPA) [1-4]. Yahoo! and
Microsoft have reportedly complied with similar subpoenas
[2,4]; AOL has partially complied [2]. Google
stock tumbles $36.98 to $399.46 (about 8.47%) [6,7].
15-Jan-06
China.
Microsoft. Yahoo, Cisco, and
Google have been accused of helping the Chinese government
control, surveil, and censure
the internet in China [1-2].
Nicholas Bequelin, Human Rights Watch, Hong Kong:
Cooperating with China is "the cost of doing business with
China" [2].
November 2005
17-Nov-05
Mountain View, CA.
Google's stock price
climbs to a record $403.45
per share [1-2],
implying a market value for Google Inc. of more than $117
billion [1].
2-Nov-05
Mountain View, CA.
Google to provide contents of
books online [1]
October 2005
21-Oct-05
Mountain View, CA.
Google reports record revenues of $1.578 billion and GAAP
net income of $381 million for 2005Q3 [1]. Google
shares surge [2,4].
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