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CAPITAL REGION
Outlook 2013: Innovation is crucial to business success
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
In business, innovation is about more than inventing the next big thing. It’s about trying new things and not being afraid to fail. It’s about developing new ways of delivering age-old products, such as books and music. It’s about leaders who listen to new ideas and departments collaborating across disciplines.
CAPITAL REGION
Outlook 2013: Waste haulers embracing single-stream recycling
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
Throwing empty soup cans and old newspapers into the same recycling container has vastly increased recycling rates throughout the Capital District, garbage collectors said.
WASHINGTON
Outlook 2013: Are we headed toward mass unemployment, or will we adapt?
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
They seem right out of a Hollywood fantasy, and they are: Cars that drive themselves have appeared in movies like “I, Robot” and the television show “Knight Rider.”
JOHNSTOWN
Outlook 2013: Fage looks to plant expansion for stability
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
Fage USA Dairy has big plans for its only Greek-style yogurt manufacturing plant in the United States, located in the Johnstown Industrial Park.
CAPITAL REGION
Outlook 2013: Internet retail marketing involves time and creativity
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
Selling retail isn’t as easy as simply opening a storefront anymore. Small-business owners are turning to social media and Internet resources to draw in customers. But they’re finding that it takes much more than just a few spare minutes.
FONDA
Outlook 2013: Diversified product line helps Kasson & Keller to thrive
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
One of Montgomery County’s largest employers has managed to remain a major employer by developing innovative products, especially during one of the worst economic downturns in the country’s history.
SCHENECTADY
Outlook 2013: Power storage booms as Durathon battery production powers up at GE
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
The entrepreneurial spirt that motivated Thomas Edison to start the Edison General Electric Company in 1890 blazes on in GE’s Energy Storage business, which powered up in September of 2011.
ROUND LAKE
Outlook 2013: Small community home to big-time transport company
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
At Trans-Border Global in Round Lake, employees need to know the major global time zones at a glance, because the company arranges commercial shipments around the globe.
MALTA & STILLWATER
Outlook 2013: Global Foundries becoming economic powerhouse
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
The Capital Region’s first commercial semiconductor factory — a critical piece of the region’s evolution toward a technology-driven economy — just keeps getting bigger.
CAPITAL REGION
Outlook 2013: Region looks to capitalize on growth in teleworking
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
Elliott Masie often starts his workday at the Uncommon Grounds coffee shop on Broadway, working from his laptop and phone before heading to his formal office a few blocks away.
Outlook 2013: Ellis CEO’s aim: Keep people out of the hospital
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
Jim Connolly is actively trying to reduce business for Ellis Medicine. He doesn’t want people coming into his hospital. He doesn’t want people taking up beds in his emergency rooms.
ALBANY
Outlook 2013: New co-chairman for development council
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
The new co-chairman of the Capital Region Economic Development Council is going to learn as he goes.
Outlook 2013: Architect increasingly focuses on sustainable design
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
Sandy Dardanelli expects to have a long career in architecture. She loves her job, she’s healthy, and if her family history is any indication, she’s got at least another half-century ahead of her.
Outlook 2013: B.E.S.S. seeking to improve battery technology
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
More power to the engineers who build a better battery.
Fernando Gomez-Baquero and his colleagues believe they are those people.
Fernando Gomez-Baquero and his colleagues believe they are those people.
Outlook 2013: Area’s location makes good warehousing site
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
The Capital Region is prime warehousing country.
