When asked in a telephone interview on Sunday if he ever envisioned Tech rising to these heights when his son committed there five years ago, Sam Harrell did not waste time.
Google was also up on a strong day for tech, rising $7.77 , 1.4, to $567.87 as it seeks European Union approval for its acquisition of online ad tracker DoubleClick.
Tech rose to No. 20 in the country on the basis of other teams losing their season openers.
Outside a few highly skilled tech cities, rises in output per person contributed little to GDP.
"A tech giant rises – another falls," said the front-page headline on the Financial Times.
Discussions on the alienation of women in tech have risen to a national level in the US and some tech firms are trying to right the balance.
As serious and plodding as he is by nature, the experience of seeing the price of a tech share rise 1,000 percent in a few months rewired his brain.
Tech companies rose on a better-than-expected earnings report from Applied Materials, the California-based manufacturer that supplies equipment for computer chips, solar panels and other electronics.
That attitude was perfectly suited to a particular era in tech — the rise of mobile devices, which were the ultimate expression of Apple's expertise in creating jewel-like hardware.
China more than doubled its installed wind turbine capacity to 11GW of capacity, while Indian wind investment was up 17% to $2.6bn, as its overall clean tech spending rose to $4.1bn in 2008, 12% up on 2007 levels.
Cisco, another tech bellwether, rose 6.5%.
