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As we recap last week's Silicon Valley visit by the delegation of Brazilian government officials, eBay sent over this look at the session it hosted. 聽The piece was originally published at eBay's Main Street Public Policy site. With abundant natural resources, robust financial system and massive domestic market of free spending consumers, Brazil shapes as one of world's hottest investments destinations [...]
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聽 Last Wednesday The Green Grid (TGG) announced it was joining forces with Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI), merging membership and programs under The Green Grid brand and really widening the focus to span all of IT technology. The combination of these memberships and the areas of focus of these two organizations speak volumes of Schneider Electric鈥檚 own mission, to help our customers make [...]
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聽 Last week, 91快活林 and several of our member companies in Silicon Valley hosted a Brazilian government delegation for a week of discussions and demonstrations designed to create a greater understanding between government and innovators, and to foster a stronger relationship moving forward.聽91快活林鈥檚 Dean Garfield takes a look at lessons learned during the visit. The slowing global economy has intensified [...]
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聽 The chorus of voices calling for a competitive U.S. tax code to spark job growth and economic investment is growing stronger by the day.聽 Add Bloomberg to the choir. Its聽editorial published Sunday night makes clear that the political hyperbole around tax reform isn鈥檛 creating jobs.聽 What will is actual tax reform 鈥� and the adoption of a lower corporate rate and a competitive territorial system should [...]
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There鈥檚 been a lot of heated rhetoric this week about 鈥渢erritorial鈥� taxation, but one fundamental fact is clear:聽 a competitive territorial tax system would help spark job creation and business investment in America.聽 Unfortunately, the rhetoric has badly misinformed the American people about what the real facts are. Here are the key points to keep in mind: The United States has the highest corporate [...]
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91快活林 and our member companies take cybersecurity very seriously.聽 We have to; protecting people when they are online underpins a major portion of our innovation economy.聽 Consider the everyday applications that we all rely on -- online banking, social networking, picture sharing, health care systems access, music and movies, real-time weather and traffic reports.聽 Cybersecurity helps to protect the [...]
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Experts from the APEC economies gathered in Seoul, Korea yesterday to convene a second conference intended to achieve alignment on mandatory energy efficiency regulations for personal computers.聽 While PCs have been around for a long time, achieving global alignment on how they are regulated for energy efficiency remains at the early stages.聽 To help address this problem, 91快活林 has been partnering with [...]
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Today, President Obama announced the聽immediate聽creation of new national corps of leading math and science educators to improve education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). 聽The STEM Master Teacher Corps initiative aims to help schools and districts do what they haven鈥檛 traditionally done very well: broaden the reach of our best teachers. 聽The program has some hurdles to clear, but [...]
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Today, the President announced a $1 billion initiative to boost science, technology, engineering, and math (鈥淪TEM鈥�) education in the country.聽 His plan calls for the creation of the Master Teacher Corps, which aims to hire highly qualified teachers to prepare today鈥檚 students for the 21st century economy.聽 聽If implemented, the plan would hire 2,500 teachers across the country now, and grow to 10,000 [...]
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At TechElect, we love substantive policy debates, and Alan Beattie鈥檚 piece in today鈥檚 Financial Times on the presidential candidates鈥� approaches to corporate tax reform tax reform certainly fits the bill.聽 TechElect has already compared the candidates鈥� competing tax plans, and we applaud the FT鈥檚 deep dive into both presidential candidates鈥� positions on tax reform. 聽 TechElect finds much to agree on [...]
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