To whom much is given, much is required. And for a technology sector on the verge of begetting two trillion-dollar companies in Amazon.com and Apple, the requirements are getting daunting.
Patience is wearing thin. Investors are asking too much. Just this week there was Facebook, a company that boosted quarterly revenue 42 per cent — and for its efforts suffered the worst battering in the history of US stocks.
There was Intel, which topped all the forecasts and had $20 billion wiped from its value. A few days earlier Netflix plunged even though its net income sextupled. Amazon barely held