MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - The once-cuddly relationship between Google Inc. and Apple Inc. is morphing into a prickly power struggle as the ambitions and ideas of the technology trendsetters increasingly collide.
The growing use of high-powered phones for Web surfing has become a flash point in the brewing battle because both Google and Apple view [...] [...]
The high-tech industry annually brings Colorado billions of dollars in revenue and represents one of its top export products.
The sector — including computers, semiconductors, electro-medical equipment and industrial electronics — generated $2.9 billion for Colorado during 2008. That, however, was an 8 percent decrease from 2007 and far off the 2006 high of $4.3 billion.
So, [...] [...]
High-tech industry exports totaled $223 billion nationally during 2008, an increase of 1 percent compared to 2007.
While long-term analysis shows an increase of 38 percent since 2002, high-tech exports have decreased in four subsectors: computers and peripheral equipment, consumer electronics, semiconductors and industrial electronics.
Those decreases, however, have been partially mitigated by increases in communications equipment, [...] [...]
Colorado’s high tech industry saw an 8 percent drop in exports to foreign countries last year - a big blow to the state’s economy.
The $2.9 billion high tech industry accounts for 37 percent of the state’s total exports.
About 37 percent of overall exports comes from the state’s semiconductor market - and they have dropped since [...] [...]