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Company[symbol] Coverage Initiated Current Price 52-week range Mkt Cap ($mil) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INCUMBENTS Leading researchers in the physical sciences, with big potential for spin-offs and revolutionary breakthroughs GE [GE] 8/07 $25.82 $21.11-$28.09 $261,230.00 Hewlett-Packard [HPQ] 3/02 29.37 16.03-30.13 56,060.00 IBM [IBM] 3/02 182.73 172.57-215.90 198,420.00 LIFE SCIENCES Companies that are working at the cutting edge of medical technology Life Technologies [LIFE] 11/05 75.95 56.67-76.03 13,130.00 Nanosphere [NSPH] 11/07 2.54 1.72-4.49 153.21 ELECTRONICS Companies that have corralled the key intellectual property that will be the foundation for next generation electronics Nanosys [private] 3/02 n/a n/a n/a ENERGY Companies that are developing high-efficiency, low-cost alternative energy technologies First Solar [FSLR] 8/07 50.44 24.46-65.99 5,020.00 ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES Tools and instrumentation that enable critical science and technology discoveries Veeco [VECO] 3/02 37.64 28.23-43.18 1,480.00 FEI Company [FEIC] 1/03 98.26 57.50-99.05 4,100.00 Accelrys [ACCL] 3/02 10.47 7.75-10.59 582.81 INVESTMENT VEHICLES Funds that have investments in promising emerging technology companies Harris & Harris Group [TINY] 5/02 3.09 2.95-3.94 96.28 PowerShares Lux Nanotech Portfolio [PXN] 8/07 7.92 6.21-8.14 26.53 PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy [PBW] 8/07 6.76 4.11-6.95 215.31 Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report is published monthly by Forbes Inc. and Angstrom Publishing LLC, 60 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011 Editor: Josh Wolfe Contributing Editors: Zack Schildhorn, Jeff Weinstein Forbes, Inc. 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Josh Wolfe and members of the staff of the Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report may hold positions in some or all of the stocks listed. Josh Wolfe and members of Angstrom Publishing LLC may provide consulting services to some of the companies mentioned in this publication. Stock prices as of January 23, 2014 GE: General Electric declined almost 6% last month after the conglomerate an- nounced that earnings rose by 4.8% to $4.2B, but results fell short of its goal to improve operating profit margins in its industrial businesses. The company re- turned $18.2B to investors in 2013 through dividends and share buybacks, and is continuing the process of spinning off GE Capital in an IPO later this quarter. HPQ: Hewlett-Packard registered yet another strong month, gaining 4.7% and touching a new 52-week high as Bank of America [BAC] upgraded the IT serv- ices giant to a Buy rating and Citi [C] upped its price target to $40 (from $32). HP stock soared 104% in 2013 and is now up an additional 7% in 2014. IBM: Big Blue was unchanged despite disappointing Q4 earnings. While EPS sur- passed analyst estimates, quarterly revenue logged its steepest decline in four years. IBM also disclosed that it is set to acquire Aspera, a high-speed data trans- fer technology provider, for an undisclosed amount. LIFE: Life Technologies shares continued to advance to hit a fresh 52-week high as Chinese antitrust regulators cleared the Thermo Fisher Scientific [TMO] takeover bid for Life Technologies. The Chinas Ministry of Commerce required that Thermo Fisher sell two units, and lower the prices on two products in the country. NSPH: Nanosphere shares soared almost 14% as the molecular diagnostics com- pany announced that it received clearance from the FDA for its Gram-Negative Blood Culture test, made 35 new customer placements, and achieved preliminary revenue of $3.4M for the fourth quarter. FSLR: First Solar fell more than 9%, dropping for the second straight month after hitting a 52-week high in November. The largest builder of solar power plants in the U.S was downgraded from Buy to Sell by Goldman Sachs [GS], with analyst Brian Lee claiming that First Solar has virtually no exposure in the explosive rooftop solar panel market. VECO: Veeco Instruments shares jumped over 18% as Zacks upgraded the LED and hard-disk drive equipment manufacturer from Underperform to Hold. JP- Morgan Chase [JPM] also raised its price target for the stock from $31 to $33.50. FEIC: FEI Company gained more than 9%, hitting a new 52-week high. William Blair initiated coverage on the nanotools leader with an Outperform rating, and Stifel Nicolaus [SF] raised its price target from $93 to $104. ACCL: Accelrys shares gained 9.3% during the month. The lab informatics ven- dor announced that it settled arbitration with Borealis for $16M. Additionally, Zacks upgraded shares from Neutral to Outperform. TINY: Harris & Harris Group gained almost 1% on the month. PXN: The PowerShares Lux Nanotech Portfolio gained 7.8% during the month. February 18, 2014 will be the final day of trading for the fund. PBW: The PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy portfolio gained 9% on the month. The fund surged more than58% in 2013, and is up an additional 7% in 2014 YTD. Word on the Street 8 | JANUARY 2014 COPYRIGHT 2014 FORBES/WOLFE EMERGING TECH REPORT