Bay Area top 200 tech titans fuel growth

From: Oakland Tribune | Date: April 29, 2007| Author: George AvalosSTAFF | Copyright information

IN THE BEST Mark Twain tradition, Silicon Valley has survived to discard yet another obituary.

Not that long ago, the Bay Area's high-tech industry had been left for dead -- yet again -- by a variety of pundits.

The dot-com meltdown, Internet debacle and outsourcing woes were going to be a bit too much to overcome this time, experts opined. Those were deemed to be problems far worse than earlier challenges from tech firms in Japan and Europe.

Just a few years after the ...

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