But she continued to hammer Mr. Obama's leadership, accusing him of "continuing to chase industry off our shores" and of having an agenda that believes "a centralized government can successfully manipulate and plan our economy for us".
Speculation about a VeriSign deal began when the company's chief financial officer, Brian Robins, withdrew from a JPMorgan Chase industry conference on Tuesday.
"We cannot afford to chase this industry away," Patrick J. Brennan, deputy county executive, told state environmental officials this month at a hearing on the proposed rules governing drilling that drew about 800 people to a school auditorium in the county.
Chris Faulkner, whose Breitling Energy Corporation is deciding whether to invest in Britain, says green groups move from one "safety scare" to the next in an attempt to chase the industry away.
At the same time, even established acts find themselves hard at work in the old industry, chasing terrestrial radio airplay and night-club spins in pursuit of a diminishing customer base.
Clusters of hot industries chasing shifts in consumer demand, government spending and pockets of cyclical industries can cause turmoil even for small "value" companies.
The industry tried chasing clicks for a while to win back fleeing advertisers, decided it was a fool's errand and is now turning to customers for revenue.
Often, lenders will lower customers' credit limits as they pay down their debt — a technique known in the industry as "chasing the balance".
At one level, it's simple: they have large, highly-engaged followings in exactly the demographic group – young, affluent millennials – that the advertising industry is chasing beyond the traditional 30-second TV commercial.
An Indian technology industry executive chasing some of these deals tells me that some Japanese electronics companies too are scouting for startups to partner with in India, especially in the area of display technologies and multimedia.
