The new four horsemen of tech

The four horsemen of tech from left to right: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Larry Page.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- It's 2012, the year that many believe will mark the end of the world. But if the four horsemen of the Apocalypse don't show up, you might want to make some smart investments for the long haul with a different kind of four horsemen.

In the 1990s, Intel (INTC, Fortune 500), Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500), Dell (DELL, Fortune 500) and Cisco (CSCO, Fortune 500) were the so-called "four horsemen of tech" -- the high-profile public technology companies that were sure to return strong growth to investors year after year. For nearly two decades, all four held keys to technology's growth engine: the personal computer. Intel made the processors, Microsoft made the software, Dell made the PCs and Cisco networked them together.

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