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The Aakar Patel column: Remake quality of education before you Make in India

April 30, 2016
It would be instructive for me to describe it because manufacturing is seen as the way out for India’s great unemployment problem. Is it? I do not think so. Let’s look at the reasons why. In 2011, Lant Pritchett of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government …
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Docoss X1 at Rs 888, Freedom 251: Why these ‘cheap’ smartphones raise doubts

April 30, 2016
Also see: Docoss X1 priced at Rs 888: Check out the first real images As we had explained earlier, phones usually have a bill of material (BoM) cost on top of which comes the manufacturing cost, plus components like taxes and duties, and marketing cost …
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How Chobani CEO ensures that employees will share in the company’s success

April 30, 2016
“It’s unusual to see that in food services and manufacturing,” he said in an interview. It’s relatively common among start-ups in the tech industry, Elliott said, but it’s rare to see founders offer employees such awards at this stage of a company’s growth.
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US firm Polycom eyes 25% revenue growth in India, bets on govt, SMBs

April 30, 2016
Asked if the company was looking at manufacturing in India, Zia answered in the affirmative. “We are looking at the feasibility of manufacturing in India. Right now, Thailand is our biggest manufacturing hub… Given the incentives that the government is …
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Food truck scene poised for major growth in Sonoma County

April 30, 2016
As the industry grew, other suppliers saw opportunity. Indiana-based Utilimaster, known for making FedEx trucks, in 2013 announced it was going to start manufacturing food trucks. Square Inc. of San Francisco was also crucial in boosting revenue because …
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Need stable policy, sudden changes affect investments: Honda

April 29, 2016
Honda Cars India, which was manufacturing petrol cars primarily in the country till a couple of years back, invested heavily in diesel technology when demand began to shift towards diesel cars due to wide gap in petrol and diesel prices. In 2013 …
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Business incubators can boost startups

April 29, 2016
Flemming, who invented the technology 3D Glass uses while he was at Sandia Labs. A year or two ago he hired two retired Intel engineers to help with the manufacturing process. 3D Glass is building an alternative to conventional printed circuits.
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Drawn-out mining permitting dampens economic growth

April 29, 2016
Harry Moser is the founder of the Reshoring Initiative (reshorenow.org), a nonprofit that works to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. Moser is from Kildeer, Ill., just northwest of Chicago.
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China’s manufacturing factory activity expands in April albeit at slower pace

April 29, 2016
The latest factory output data has raised doubts about the sustainablity of a recent pick-up in China. Activity in China’s manufacturing sector expanded for the second month in a row in April but only marginally, an official survey showed on Sunday …
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China April factory activity expands marginally

April 29, 2016
Beijing: Activity in China’s manufacturing sector expanded for the second month in a row in April but only marginally, an official survey showed on Sunday, raising doubts about the sustainability of a recent pick-up in the world’s second-largest economy.
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