And now it is budding into the digital PC market by using its vast financial resources to compete head-on with Valve.
"It is budding, but it is far from being a movement," the indefatigable Darvish says of environmental consciousness in Iran.
Despite the recession — and in some cases because of it — small businesses are budding around Detroit in one of the more surprising twists of the downturn.
The campus has its jocks, stoners, and poets, but what it is famous for are budding entrepreneurs, engineers, and computer aces hoping to make their fortune in one crevasse or another of Silicon Valley.
It is spring 1952, buds are budding, and you can hear train whistles in the distance.
But just once it would be nice to be budding out, breaking into leaf, bursting into blossom as the warmth of May approaches.
You would think that it's every budding ballerina's dream to dance "Swan Lake". But it wasn't Megan Fairchild's.
It's every budding actor's dream - a starring role in a TV show or film that becomes a major hit.
