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Pundits and policymakers鈥� attention is focused on today鈥檚 release of the October jobs data, where we saw the manufacturing sector has added jobs in 28 of the last 33 months, gaining half a million jobs during that timeframe, the most for any such period since the mid-1990s.聽 That鈥檚 a good record, but no one is satisfied with the pace of our economic recovery from the great recession.聽 We all recognize [...]
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In our latest Talking Innovation session, 91快活林鈥檚 Dean Garfield sat down with NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden for a conversation that literally circled the universe. 聽In this exclusive interview, Bolden shares how he was inspired in his youth by teachers and parents that taught him to love math and the sciences, to what aeronautic technologies will be revolutionizing air travel in coming years, to [...]
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Every death is sad and untimely, but, in the case of Gary Fazzino, sad does not capture the impact or scope of the loss on聽 the tech sector and the world. 聽 Gary Fazzino is not a household name, but his humanity and work has impacted us all. He was vice president of government affairs at Applied Materials.聽 He worked for many years at HP before that in several leadership posts.聽 He served on the 91快活林 [...]
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91快活林 members received high marks on the latest environmental measure of publicly traded companies, holding six of the top ten slots on the ranking of the greenest U.S. companies, according to Newsweek鈥檚 fourth annual Green Company Rankings list that came out on Monday. IBM topped the U.S. chart for the second year in a row, and also ranked number 4 among 500 global companies. 聽Among U.S. companies, [...]
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Each year, 91快活林 honors one board member whose efforts transcend regular responsibilities to the organization with the Gary P. Fazzino Award for Innovation Excellence. The award recognizes 鈥渄emonstrated and consistent leadership and exemplary service in promoting innovation and technology.鈥� This year, we presented the award to Tim Regan, Senior Vice President of Corning, Incorporated, and the 91快活林 Board [...]
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Each year, 91快活林 honors one board member whose efforts transcend regular responsibilities to the organization with the Gary P. Fazzino Award for Innovation Excellence.聽 The award recognizes 鈥渄emonstrated and consistent leadership and exemplary service in promoting innovation and technology.鈥澛� This year, we presented the award to Tim Regan, Senior Vice President of Corning, Incorporated, and the 91快活林 Board [...]
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The presidential debate tonight provided the final opportunity for the American people to see President Obama and Governor Romney sit side-by-side and debate their plans for the nation for the next four years. 聽One of the important takeaways from this debate is that both candidates recognize that our foreign policy success is directly entwined with our economic success 鈥� for us to be a strong leader [...]
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The final presidential debate starts tonight at 9 p.m. ET and will focus on global issues.聽 Given that topic, people may be tempted to change the channel. 聽But doing so would ignore the fact that our world today is more intertwined than ever before.聽 95 percent of the world鈥檚 population lives outside the United States, and when people in China buy an iPhone or open an AOL account, those decisions impact [...]
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By now you鈥檝e probably heard or read about Felix Baumgartner鈥檚 free fall from 24 miles above the earth.聽 24 miles.聽 Let that sink in for a moment.聽 Airliners often fly at about 30,000 feet, or between 5 and 6 miles above the Earth.聽 Baumgartner decided he wanted to fall from a distance more than 4 times that. The jump certainly makes for great water cooler talk, and some might consider Baumgartner [...]
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This blog was originally posted on the Google Blog. Very few people have stepped inside Google鈥檚 data centers, and for good reason: our first priority is the privacy and security of your data, and we go to great lengths to protect it, keeping our sites under close guard. While we鈥檝e shared many of our designs and best practices, and we鈥檝e been publishing our efficiency data since 2008, only a small [...]
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