In the last part of this series, I highlighted a number of Chinese companies floating IPOs in the U.S. While Alibaba was the one with the greatest promise and some of the others might not do as good, the
Technology companies seem to have woken up to the fact that collaboration is an effective way to get more competitive. Two factors have driven this change in tactics. The first was the desire to avoid litigation that is basically
Tech giants Microsoft , Apple , and Amazon.com are generally considered fierce rivals with competing interests. Yet Apple and Amazon recently came to Microsoft’s defense in its ongoing battle with the U.S. government over cloud privacy.