Somewhere in Between

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No one would accuse us of being a business and finance magazine, but we do cover technology, and the tides of tech often follow the tidings of business events. I sometimes wonder if our discussions of business sound as fluffy to business people as a business magazine's discussion of tech sounds to us. The reference frames are so different, and the truth is usually hidden somewhere in between.

Dear Reader,

No one would accuse us of being a business and finance magazine, but we do cover technology, and the tides of tech often follow the tidings of business events. I sometimes wonder if our discussions of business sound as fluffy to business people as a business magazine's discussion of tech sounds to us. The reference frames are so different, and the truth is usually hidden somewhere in between.

The big news this month was the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of chip designer ARM Holdings. ARM is known for its unusual niche in the computer hardware universe. They don't make chips themselves, but they license their designs to other manufactures, including Qualcomm, Broadcom, Samsung, and many more.

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