"In consumer technology, tight integration of hardware and software produces a demonstrably better platform," said Roger McNamee, a veteran technology investor with Elevation Partners, a Silicon Valley private equity firm.
The veteran technology journalist Dan Gillmor, for instance, wrote on Twitter: "Walt Mossberg insists on an answer re FB's unilateral privacy changes; nope, still no answer".
"If you wanted to find someone who represented the diametrical opposite of the H.P. way, it is Léo," said Jason Maynard, a veteran technology analyst with Wells Fargo Securities.
First, he listened to the veteran technology writer Michael Malone tell an audience of Intel employees that if they were too cautious they would fail.
Veteran technology commentator Walt Mossberg has described Twitter's convoluted "secret handshake" of rules and conventions, which can be confusing and intimidating to new users.
I spoke to Michael S. Malone, a veteran technology reporter and the author of a history of the company, "The Intel Trinity," released earlier this month, about Intel's origins and its influence on science, finance, and culture.
Mr. Goldberg, a veteran technology executive who sold a previous company to Yahoo, is also the husband of Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer and one of the main overseers of the Web giant's rocky initial public offering last year.
Among Silicon Valley companies, "LinkedIn is among the most aggressive in using share-based compensation — there is no question about that," Mark Mahaney, a veteran technology analyst at RBC Capital Markets, said in an interview on Monday.
To look at Internet companies today, said Ron Erickson, a veteran technology executive and investor, is like watching dinosaurs after the proverbial meteor hit the earth: "Instead of natural evolution you had cataclysmic change".
Mashable, the popular Web site for information about technology and social media, said Tuesday that it was expanding coverage to include new sections for entertainment, United States news and world news, and that it was hiring a veteran technology editor to oversee all editorial content.
Page B14 Business IN FLOOD OF TABLET DEVICES, SOME SEE DESKTOP DECLINE A growing number of analysts and veteran technology industry executives contend that the torrid growth rates of the iPad, combined with tablet competition from the likes of Amazon.com and Microsoft, make a changing of the guard with traditional personal computers a question of when, not if.
