Seeding a New Generation of Startups in Santa Cruz
Norm Fogelsong, a general partner at Menlo Park venture capital firm IVP, and an early investor in Santa Cruz-born hard disk pioneer Seagate Technology, says he looks for three things when he's putting money into a company in an unfamiliar geography …
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Symantec First-Quarter Profit, Sales Exceed Forecasts
Chief Executive Officer Steve Bennett has cut jobs and consolidated sales functions as shrinking PC shipments drag down demand for Symantec's antivirus software. His efforts to lower expenses, along with a push to sell more server-management programs …
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US consumer confidence dips from 5-year high
The index surged in June, coinciding with a stronger job market. Employers added 195,000 jobs in June and many more in April and May than initially reported. That brought the monthly job growth up to an average of 202,000 in the first six months of …
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Most Americans Wouldn't Qualify For A Job Making iPhones Because Of …
On February 21, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/22/nightline-apple-supplier-foxconn_n_1293393.html?ref=technology" target="_hplink">ABC aired a "Nightline" segment featuring Bill Weir's visit to a Chinese Foxconn factory</a> responsible …
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Mercedes-Benz fuel cell plant creates 50 new jobs
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Jobs, Tourism and Innovation Minister Pat Bell participated in the grand opening of the Mercedes-Benz fuel cell production and technology development facility in Burnaby today, which is providing 50 new jobs for B.C. families.
British Columbia was chosen as the home of the new facility, beating out some of the world’s largest automotive manufacturing centres: Detroit, California, Stuttgart and Ontario. In the end, it was B.C.’s reputation for excellence in fuel cell research, as well as our existing infrastructure for fuel cell development, that gave our province the edge.
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www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2012/06/mercedes-benz-fuel-cell-pl…
