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US Manufacturers Know How to Win. Here’s their Secret

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Mark Schmidt

By:  Michael Doyle, CSM Let me tell you something about Americans. We like to win. No, we love to win. And in our minds at least, we do it all the time. But these days, when it comes to manufacturing, we’ve … Continue reading →

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Tim Cook’s Plan for Manufacturing Apple’s Macs in the U.S. Should Lead to the Bay Area

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Pete DiLeo

By: Tim Cassidy, Mercury News When Apple moves the manufacturing of some Macs to the United States next year, the company obviously should put the factory in the Bay Area. It’s a no-brainer. What’s that you say? I’m the one … Continue reading →

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Made in America, Again

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Pete DiLeo

By: Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review Bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. is politically savvy and can make economic sense. At a dinner for Silicon Valley big shots in February 2011, President Obama asked Steve Jobs what it would … Continue reading →

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Experts Are Skeptical About a Renaissance of U.S. Manufacturing

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Pete DiLeo

By: The New York Times Apple plans to join a small but growing number of companies that are bringing some manufacturing jobs back to the United States, drawn by the growing economic and political advantages of producing in their home … Continue reading →

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Announces Plans to Manufacture Mac Computers in USA

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Pete DiLeo

By: Ronnie Polidoro, NBC News Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that one of the existing Mac lines will be manufactured exclusively in the United States next year, making the comments during an exclusive interview with Brian Williams airing tonight at … Continue reading →

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How Obama or Romney Should Have Answered the iPad Question

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Pete DiLeo

By: Arik Hesseldahl, All Things D Toward the end of last night’s presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney, the moderator, CNN’s Candy Crowley, asked a perfectly legitimate question, one that Obama himself is once reported to … Continue reading →

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Apple, Offshoring and the Decline of the American Middle Class

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Pete DiLeo

By: James A. (Jim) Smith Ph.D. ABD, Assembly magazine Working conditions continue to be an issue at the Foxconn factories in China where Apple makes its best-selling electronic gadgets. On June 19, a young man who worked at one factory … Continue reading →

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What Will It Take to Revive US Manufacturing?

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Pete DiLeo

Laurie Sullivan, EBN US manufacturing grew more slowly in February. The Institute for Supply Management reported last week that the factory index fell to 52.4 from 54.1 in January. The good news is that manufacturing in the United States has expanded … Continue reading →

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