Spotlight: Albright, Tech Execs to Discuss Asian Crisis

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will meet with more than a dozen Silicon Valley executives today to discuss how technology companies have been affected by the Asian economic crisis. The meeting will be at the headquarters of Cisco Systems Inc. and hosted by Cisco CEO John Chambers. The chief executives of Novell Inc., National Semiconductor Corp. and Adobe Systems are among those who will attend. Recessions in Asia have hurt high-tech firms’ prospects for growth in the region.