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Fremont is US new manufacturing hub thanks to Silicon Valley
In a busy factory, machinists move sheets of aluminum roll in the back door to be molded, stamped, twisted and notched into high-tech electric cars that sell for more than $60,000 each.Down the road in another plant, crews slice solar cells, place them under glass sheets and create panels that ship by the boxful to Europe. Elsewhere in this town, industrial workshops and laboratories buzz with ...
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Google’s Plan To Take Over The World
-- without someone’s computerized headgear staring back at you. It was oddly discomforting knowing that thousands of people had the ability to take a photo or video of you just by winking at their Glass. It’s far too early to tell if Glass will take off when it’s ready for the general public, but if it does, then it’ll be just another example of how Google has reached ...
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Miller under attack as he pursues campaign finance reform
An out-of-state conservative group wants you to call Democratic Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller and tell him that you're "sick of his costly hypocrisy." If you think this sounds like a campaign ad, that's because it is. A group called the State Government Leadership Foundation has attacked Miller for sponsoring a transparency and good-governance bill at the Legislature ...
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Budget business licenses and UMC to keep commissioners busy on consecutive days this week
Sunday, May 19, 2013 | 2 a.m. A busy week of meetings awaits Clark County commissioners, who will convene on three consecutive days to conduct official business. Budgets will be the focus of a special meeting at 9 a.m. Monday, followed by regularly scheduled meetings at 9 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, all at the Clark County Government ...
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Microsoft to launch new Xbox game console this week
Microsoft Corp is set to make a splash this week with the eagerly awaited unveiling of its new Xbox game console, eight years after the last version, as it seeks a larger share of the $65 billion a year global computer gaming industry.But the small device faces some big competition from the PlayStation 4 by Sony Corp and the Wii U by Nintendo Co Ltd in a shifting market.Gamers are gravitating to ...
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Cannes World War Z With Brad Pitt to Open Moscow Film Festival
Brad Pitt Introduces Marc Foster's Zombie Thriller 'World War Z' They also unveiled the first 10 competition titles, with the rest set to be announced later this month. The first members of the competition jury are writer and ...
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Global Manager Leading With the Help of Humor
Chris Lewis is founder and chief executive of Lewis PR, a global communications agency with offices in 25 cities around the world. Q. What do you remember about the first time you managed a team? A. I was 18 and working as a young mechanic for a company called Kawasaki, and I was managing a motorcycle racing team on the ...
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Political Economy The City of London as Savior of E.U. Finance
It is perhaps too much to expect the Conservative-led government in Britain to lead any initiatives on Europe, given the orgy of self-destruction in the party over whether Britain should stay in the European Union. But insofar as David Cameron manages to get some respite from the madness, he should introduce a strategy to enhance the City of London as ...
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Candidates failed to report 181 PAC corporate contributions
NASHVILLE -- Some of the Legislature's top leaders were among more than 50 candidates who failed to report 181 political contributions totaling $145,875 when the Registry of Election Finance conducted an annual "crosscheck" review mandated by a current state ...
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Boosting Ethiopia’s economy one shoe at a time
';You don't build your economy based on aid, you want to build your economy based on the way SoleRebels built its business, so that it's sustainable,'; Bethlehem told ...
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Angola’s skewed lending said to stifle economy
With the economy growing at 10 percent the services, construction and mining sectors have been major beneficiaries, according to a recent report by consultancy firm ...
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Lifestyle Why better sound is big business
Tinie Tempah's Pass Out , some Jessie J and One Direction. I downloaded the tracks I didn't have and at the party, after an hour's football, followed by snacks and one of those mass pile-ons that small boys love (why?), I put my phone into the dock and pressed ...
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Microsoft to announce new Xbox
After eight years and over 77 million units sold, Microsoft looks set to announce the successor to the Xbox 360 video game console next ...
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Business bulletins May 19
Tennessee Small Business Development Center, Roane State: offers a seminar on the Affordable Care Act for businesses 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday at the Oak Ridge Chamber, 1400 Oak Ridge Turnpike. ...
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China Tourism Day and 3rd Western China Tourism Industry Expo open in Chongqing
Dancers perform for the opening of the China Tourism Day and the 3rd Western China Tourism Industry Expo, in Chongqing, Southwest China, May 19, 2013. Chongqing is the main venue for the 2013 China Tourism Day. (Xinhua/Li ...
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Dubai World Central starts building new warehouses
Dubai World Central (DWC) has announced that it has begin construction on the fourth complex of warehouses to be developed within its logistics ...
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Where in the world is Ragheb Alama Fans worried he wouldn’t show for Friday’s Arab Idol
fight with fellow feisty judge Ahlam digging too deep into Ragheb Alama's skin to the point that he flew the coup and headed to the City of Lights to hide in the Eiffel Tower? This was the question some fans wondered when the superstar tweeted a pic from Paris last week.Ragheb didn't let his fans down, and made it to Friday night's episode of the hit talent show, only for the ...
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Guantanamo Prison Hunger Strike Puts The Eyes Of The World On Us
U.S. Guantanamo prison wasestablished by the Bush administration in 2002. Of the 166 detainees, over 100 are refusing to eatas a form of protest. Some simply want ...
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Former CEO Of Nestle Wants The World’s Water Supply Under Corporate Control
@GreenBiz Nestle’s former CEO has not only come out in favor of genetically modified food and fought vigorously against the labeling of such food by corporations, he has also expressed favor with the idea ...
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‘Buycott’ App Lets You Track Corporate Parenthood Of Goods Koch Bros’ Piece For Boycotts
Although it’s temporarily off the Android market (available on the iPhone still) while the creators attempt to handle the enormous amount of traffic put on their system due to their inability to foresee the utter awesomeness of their creation, a new app has been created that allows you to boycott the Koch brothers, Monsanto or, if you’d like, any company that has supported campaigns ...
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Stockton business customers robbed
The men entered the lobby of the business about 10:15 a.m., one armed with a gun and the other armed with a six-inch knife, police said. The man with the gun jumped over the counter and took money from the register and the safe, officers said. The other man robbed customers in the lobby, taking cash, wallets, cellphones and identifications, authorities ...
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Business calendar Week of May 20
Tuesday9 a.m.-noon – Sacramento County presents a free workshop, "Doing Business With Sacramento County," at the Northern California SBDC-Greater Sacramento/Sierra, 1410 Ethan Way. To register, ...
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Developing nation’s share of global investment to rise by 2030
Hohoe (V/R), May 19 GNA - Seventeen years from now, half the global stock of capital, totalling 8 trillion will reside in the developing world, compared to less than the current ...
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Microsoft holds NGOs Connection Day in Accra
The event organised on the theme, "Technology for Social Good" was to help NGOs harness the power technology in the delivery of their social ...
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Microsoft poised to invest in promising ICT experts in Ghana
Accra, May 18, GNA - Microsoft is poised to invest in the young and promising Information Communication Technology (ICT) experts who are willing to transform Ghana through the power of ...
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Latin American unity plagued by tensions
Division and suspicion seem the order of the day in Latin America at present, negating any optimism that the countries of the region may one day move toward a regional integration model based on that of the EU.
Latin America has seen itself become heavily divided over the issue of whether to readmit Honduras to the Organization of American States (OAS) after the 2009 coup, with all the Central American states accepting the new government while big regional players like Brazil and Mexico insist that more must be done before they’ll recognize it. Meanwhile, President Alan Garcia of Peru has told Latin America news providers that there is a quiet arms race occurring in the region. In all, it seems that regional integration along the same lines as the EU remains a long way off at present. Read more
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