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The global economic downturn, as the phenomenon is being called, has put a major damper on many of the progressive style ideas that had been enjoying a hey day thanks to tech industry success back in the early part of this decade. Clean tech, also known as green tech, has been one of the hardest hit as it is not currently seen by many as a crucial sector to invest in and could take years until a profit is posted. Due to these hold ups and factors about the industry itself, many investors have been reluctant lately to buy into the new concepts hitting market. While 2008 was a banner year for the clean tech sector of the market, in the first quarter of 2009, profits have taken a nose dive to just $1 billion and the industry is feeling the pain. big name software vendors and those in biotech have been struck hard, reeling from the recession and watching drops they had some level of foresight to prepare for say analysts. Depending on the methods used by researchers, there have been mixed results in attempts to get things back up to a safer level and this means that many firms are looking at ways of buckling down, harnessing their corporate propensity for innovation to help ward off what some say is a 48% drop in profits from this same time last year. Clean tech is still a major seeker of start up capital and it can be tough for investors who sincerely believe in the offering to wait, but in the end investing is a group activity requiring numbers to succeed....

In the United States, the federal government has been responding to the financial crises caused by the collapse of the housing and credit industries with what is being termed the largest bail out in US history. President elect Barack Obama is preparing to unveil a massive plan to put more than $700 billion towards economic incentives in a package designed to stimulate the economy and get dollars flowing once again. A big part of this plan involves investing heavily in the tech industry that is seen as one key way the US economy can pull itself back onto its feet, given the massive growth of the industry over the past decade and its potential to bring a great deal of business in terms of both services and goods produced back to the country. By putting huge money into R&D, the incentives should stimulate the economy, say the presidents advocates, and help corporations cut their losses in order to continue developments and get the economy back on solid ground through something of a trickle down effect. This means that by putting money into electronics companies to help them reduce costs, they could then offer products at lower prices to encourage consumers to buy and therefore raise the economy back up through all the associated jobs created by such an endeavor. If successful, the bail out could bring the economy back to pre 2008 levels and avoid what nay sayers have stated is the next Great Depression. Solar and other alternative energy sources are also expected to receive ...

Each year big time business magazine Forbes releases different lists of top earning companies, largest companies and fastest companies in a variety of different industries and market sectors. For 2009, the magazine was working against some fairly down tempo news regarding massive layoffs and profit losses at companies in many nations all across the globe, but despite this there has been significant growth in certain sectors of the economy and among these sectors the tech industry has some shining beacons of hope for the business world. The list show cases the top 25 fastest growing tech stocks in the United States and proves that these are thriving even while the rest of the economy appears to be crashing. Of the companies on the list this year, 13 of them have not before been in the top 25, among these are Apple that pulled in a cool $5 billion due to a year that took in $33 billion in sales. The number one company on the list, based on research of its 5 year trend in sales growth is Illumina that made it onto the 2007 list, but not in 2008. Next, in the number 2 position was search engine giant Google that has been either first or second for 4 years running. Analysts noted the fact that from last year's list, a good portion of the companies listed have done better than the rest of the tech market and have come to view the top 25 fastest growing as generally having a higher level of resilience in the stock market. Overall, compared to 2008, fast tech stocks dropped 30% i...

The recession is increasing at a rapid pace and despite the claims of certain analysts in the financial sectors, it does appear that the situation could be getting worse and will continue to do so before it gets better. The hi tech sector of the market has been previously seen as fairly resilient to economic down turns since much of the consumer and industrial goods or services are deemed necessities by the customer bases these companies serve, but things are looking bleak at this time for the market. Silicon Valley in particular has experienced some extreme woes not felt since the Dot Com Bubble burst in the latter part of the last decade. Now, with more than 5,000 layoffs from Microsoft and more than that number being laid off from Intel factories, the work force is scrambling to find ways to recover from the financial crisis. Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony is also reporting its very first loss on operations since 14 years ago, a total of nearly $1.7 billion in the red. These tough times for the tech industry have been slightly strange for some analysts who have noted that laptop computers, Apple's iPhone and similar smart phone devices, have all been eagerly bought by consumers despite economic woes. However, this week things have begun to change and workers are finding that their jobs are drying up quickly, forcing big changes at both the corporate and individual level as people attempt to grapple with the reality that the recession is global and no end is ye...

In the United States, the space agency NASA is known for having come up with a huge amount of tech innovations that have come to play major roles in the average life of consumers. Now it appears that the space agency will be bringing some of their science to those with vision issues, offering a type of tech that could be useful to eye doctors in the optical care fields. The new gadget from NASA will be able to detect whether or not a cataract is forming on the lens of a human being's eye before the person has reached a state where their vision has become cloudy. Having this information available would help medical pros be able to offer sound tips that patients could use in order to reduce the likelihood of early cataracts turning into genuine problems down the road. Currently, tips include avoiding the use of sun glasses, increasing certain nutrients in a person's diet and avoiding irritants to the eye such as smoke or other fumes in the environment. Up until now, vision tests in which the patient states their own level of vision have been the only way that doctors could detect impending vision problems of the cataract kind so this tech innovation is likely to be a major boon for the optical care industry. According to researchers the goal is to have it act as an early warning system so that astronauts in space will be able to have advance warning of vision troubles and be able to get rapid treatment....