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"For example, the Internet is a symbol for much that is new and exciting today in technology, and it is U.S. software companies that seem to dominate it, from Web browsers to search engines to online providers. All over the world the name of an American company, Microsoft, appears on computer screens when people start up Windows to access the Internet. Does this not leave people in other countries with a sense of exclusion from this technology? Something may seem fundamentally unfair about the United States' hightech hegemony. How did Microsoft attain such overwhelming dominance?" - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"There, state-of-the-art software companies hawked programs that used e-mail to detail physicians. Old-style radio networks showed how pharma could use the airwaves to reach millions of specific radio audiences, everything from the "youth buy," to "urban contemporaries," to the "African American buy," to the "women's buy." One troublingly named company, Blitz Research, touted its abilities not to target doctors directly, but rather nurses and physicians' assistants, who, monitored by supervising physicians, write more than 730 million prescriptions a year." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"As I mentioned in the introduction, my recurrent bouts with varied chronic illnesses didn't keep me from working to build two very successful software companies and products, ACT! and SalesLogix. In my case, I have actually enjoyed fairly long periods of time when I felt quite well. However, my symptoms would always seem to reappear and these episodes were extremely discouraging. I would drag myself through a long relapse that would last months, or sometimes years. When I finally started to feel better, I would think I was finally cured." - Pat Sullivan, Wellness Piece by Piece: How a Successful Entrepreneur Discovered the Pieces to His Chronic Health Puzzle (Get the book.)

"By the beginning of the 21st century SAP was one of the world's largest independent software companies, and an example of the globalization of the marketplace in a software industry long dominated by the United States. The Internet In the 1990s, the growth of the Internet, a network that linked computers all over the world, created new marketing opportunities for business. Companies opened Web sites from which they marketed their products and services, and used electronic mail (e-mail) to communicate within the office and with other offices around the world." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

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