1.   Motorola is one of the leaders in the global technology boom.

2.   An explosion of small company stocks, largely driven by the technology boom, has given investors more opportunities to park their money.

3.   Another money-loser that rode the technology boom last year was Andover-based Engage Technologies Inc., an online marketing firm that offered its stock in July.

4.   As such, Ascend is one of the few companies associated with the information technology boom already making money.

5.   Best grew up in Austin, where the affluence of the technology boom gave him outsized job expectations.

6.   A year later, the technology boom drew their money to the Far East.

7.   BOOM-AND-BUST CYCLE REVISITED The technology boom and bust of the last few years has been a breathtaking ride, but it is hardly unprecedented.

8.   But several researchers at the epicenter of the technology boom are trying to do just that.

9.   During its short existence, the Industry Standard not only reported about the boundless optimism of the technology boom but was in many ways an icon of it.

10.   During the technology boom, when investors wanted nothing but growth stocks, Oakmark Funds stuck to its guns.