1.   And with it, the big tech companies are evolving too.

2.   AOL is the first big tech firm to bring its new-economy compensation scheme to an old-economy company.

3.   At a conference planned for August in Orlando, the group wants to have at least a dozen black owners of big tech companies as presenters.

4.   Big tech firms that buy experimental technologies are cutting back on nonessential spending.

5.   He points to eager viewer response and advertising from big tech firms like Microsoft, Oracle, Dell Computer and Sun Microsystems as evidence of growing success.

6.   He worries that big tech names like Oracle, Cisco, Sun and Intel are going to be under pressure for some time to come.

7.   In part, the company will need to have more success in selling ads to large companies, particularly big tech firms like Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Intel.

8.   Microsoft, one of the first big tech companies to hit the skids, was one of the first to come up with a pseudo-repricing.

9.   Microsoft, like other big tech companies, invested heavily during the Internet boom.

10.   Mutual funds and other institutional investors sold some big tech stocks last week because they were the most liquid and easiest to unload.