As the US presidential election gathers pace,Silicon Valley looks on anxiously to see what effect more than 100 million American votes will make to the technology industry. Further reading US government agency drops BlackBerrys for ...
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In their second debate, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama each tried to outdo the other's love of fossil fuels: Obama extolling his record on oil and natural gas production, Romney vowing to take "advantage of the oil and coal we have here. " ...
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In a sign of increasing anxiety over the use of electronic voting machines,the Republican National Committee this week alleged problems with e-voting machines in six states that use them for early voting. John Phillippe,general counsel of ...
Greetings from London—I'm stopping here for a brief brake after spending an interesting two days in Switzerland at the Montblanc watch manufacturing facilities. As I mentioned a few weeks ago this is the season when the Christmas ...
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American manufacturing companies are marching on Moscow. At a time when tepid growth at home, a slowing Chinese economy and recession in much of Western Europe is dogging Corporate America, Russia is getting newfound attention as a growth ...
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Both presidential candidates President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney advocate the return of manufacturing back to America.As the nation echoes this sentiment,one Texas-based retail clothing store,Sun&Color,watches her business grow ...
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While the vice presidential debate Thursday night heated up Twitter,it didn't rock the micro-blogging site like last week's presidential debate did. Twitter continued its new role as the modern debate spin room during last night's debate ...
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Danaher Corp (DHR.N) and Cooper Industries (CBE.N) will sell their hand and power tools joint venture, Apex Tool Group, to Bain Capital for about $1.6 billion, joining a growing group of U.S. conglomerates that is divesting its non-core ...
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In the 2012 presidential campaign,Twitter has become the new spin room. The popular social network stepped up to its new role during Wednesday night's debate between President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney. Twitter counted ...
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You remember the iPod.The iPod created jobs,but a majority of those jobs were overseas.Electronics manufacturing jobs are mostly overseas,which helps to keep one million workers at China's Foxconn plants busy. In contrast,the majority of ...
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In his acceptance speech Thursday night, President Barack Obama drew upon Minnesota's Marvin Windows and Doors for inspiration. "The family business in Warroad, Minnesota that didn't lay off a single one of their four thousand employees ...
IDG News Service-PricewaterhouseCoopers said Wednesday it has not found evidence of unauthorized data access despite a group's claim that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's tax returns were stolen in a late-night office theft. ...
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Service providers taking steps to solve expected mobile congestion problems at the Democratic National Convention this week are addressing issues that are likely to grow in many areas over the next few years. Time Warner Cable said Monday ...
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Computerworld-Attending the Republican National Convention in Tampa this week is Perse Faily,the CEO of startup EMN8,who will deliver a message on the tech industry's contribution to job growth.When the convention is over,she will head to ...
Computerworld - Editor's note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Mitt Romney's platform describes government's basic research efforts as an area Romney "plans to cut."Romney says research is important to innovation and ...