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Den nya IT-bubblan här i Silicon Valley sätter sina spår överallt, inte minst på motorvägarna, som idag återigen är oframkomliga, precis som på den gamla goda tiden kring millennieskiftet.
Bubblan leds av företag som Facebook och Twitter som trots att dom inte är listade ändå är värda, omkring $ 76 miljarder på sekundärmarknaden. T.o.m. lilla LinkedIn i Mountain View, väntas bli värt $3,3 miljarder i en börsintroduktion).
Economist skriver i om Silicon Valley and the technology industry: The new tech bubble | The Economist
So is history indeed about to repeat itself? Those who think not point out that the tech landscape has changed dramatically since the late 1990s. Back then few people were plugged into the internet; today there are 2 billion netizens, many of them in huge new wired markets such as China. A dozen years ago ultra-fast broadband connections were rare; today they are ubiquitous. And last time many start-ups (remember Webvan and Pets.com) had massive ambitions but puny revenues; today web stars such as Groupon, which offers its users online coupons, and Zynga, a social-gaming company, have phenomenal sales and already make respectable profits.
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