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is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corporation. First introduced in 1989 in the United States, Lexus is now sold globally and has become Japan's largest-selling make of premium cars.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Facebook's $104 billion initial public offering on Friday transformed thousands of young people into instant millionaires – as well as a few billionaires – and already the booming luxury market in Silicon Valley is experiencing an upswing.
Multi-million dollar mansions and $100,000 Porsches are flying off local shelves in the Palo Alto, Santa Clara and Menlo Park areas of California. And the charge of luxury living is being led by a group of young entrepreneurs and techies as well as investors and venture capitalists that have scored famously from Facebook's Nasdaq debut.Facebook (NYSE:FB) began trading on the stock exchange Friday morning in a $104 billion IPO that marked the second-biggest in history behind Visa (NYSE:V) and ahead of General Motors (NYSE:GM). When CEO Mark Zuckerberg rang the opening bell, he and few close colleagues became instant billionaires, while thousands of lower-level employees became millionaires.The sudden wealth has already seeped into the local economy, ca...QlikTech CEO Lars Bjork on how the company’s data analysis software can reduce costs and make companies more efficient.
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