Foxconn, most famous as Apple's China-based manufacturer, has set out a stringent list of demands for Brazil to meet before it builds a $12 billion plant there. Rumors swirled for long while that Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai, was considering expanding its existing local business and opening a multi-billion dollar manufacturing facility in Brazil, with firmer data emerging only earlier this year
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Feed SubscriptionChina Beating The U.S. In Electric Vehicle Race (But Maybe Not For Long)
The U.S doesn't have much over China at this point. Sure, we have breathable air, but they have more clean energy funding , the world's fastest-growing economy, and at least for now, a head start on the vehicle electrification race.
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Will Facebook’s Open Compute Project Accelerate Data Center Innovation?
The social network is hoping hardware companies will take a page from the software open source movement and collaborate to spur innovation. They might be disappointed. Facebook didn’t spend eighteen months and tens of millions of dollars developing more powerful--and more energy efficient--data centers and servers so that it could go into the hardware business
Read More »Innovation Agents: Britta Gross, Director of GM’s Global Energy Systems and Infrastructure Commercialization
By the end of this year, there should be 15,000 Chevy Volts and Opel Amperas on the road, and hydrogen-powered vehicles aren't far behind.
Read More »Graphic: The Cities and States Doing the Best for Bike Commuters
One key aspect of creating smarter, more liveable cities is to create more complete streets that are friendlier to bikers. A pretty good indicator of how well cities are doing at this is how many people are willing to brave a commute on their bikes.
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Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most imporhttp://sitemanager.inc.com/index.php?section=editarticle&incid=37122tant and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today
Read More »The Perils of Expansion
It's a quandary that every successful restaurateur faces: Do you stay fiercely loyal to your original location, a la chef Gabrielle Hamilton and Prune, the much-loved NYC restaurant she's been running since 1999? Or do you go the way of the Flays and the Batalis of the restaurant world, expanding your empire to include Vegas outposts, cookware, and a line of designer Crocs?
Read More »10th Sharjah Biennial
The Arabic-speaking world's largest art show brings 119 artists to Sharjah, a historic port city in the United Arab Emirates, with made-for-grad-seminar themes such as "seduction" and "dissidence." Most participants, like Decolonizing Architecture, a West Bank -- based group that reimagines the infrastructure of the Israeli occupation, come from the Middle East, but there are also many Western artists, including Sophie Calle.
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