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	Saturday, July 09, 2005

Tech Companies are Starting to Mature  (techdrivenlife) You know that the tech industry is maturing, because most of them have more cash now than they would like to have.  Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, Oracle ,Nokia, Yahoo, Google, Ebay, and others are all reeling in cash.  Some used the cashto buy back stock, some declared stock dividends, some buy up companies, but only a small percentage of them are investing in research and development. It seems that most would rather hold on to their cash rather than go back to the old days when you mak ea huge gamble on a new technlogy.  Even Microsoft, after increasing their research and development and investing in some new ventures, still finds more cash than it wants, and decided to declare a stock divided.  What happens when companies that is now more cautious than ever. What will it do for innovation?   Does it mean that people are now hitting a blank wall on what to invent next?  Does that indicate that technology industry is mature? More detail reports in Yahoo   4:59:59 PM     comment []   trackback []