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...systems, but as the construction of new buildings has remained depressed, so have sales of things like the ID-card readers that go inside them. Ringdale's response: throw more resources, including employees, at its burgeoning line of light-emitting-diode products, for which it holds a number of patent applications, thereby answering increased demand for low-energy commercial lighting. "We've redeployed," says CEO Klaus Bollmann, whose firm will open one plant expansion in a few months (accounting for an additional 10 to 15 jobs) and a second, larger one next year (120 more jobs). As the economy shifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Workforce: Where Will the New Jobs Come From? | 3/19/2010 | See Source »

Still, Herzberg's Sirius Value program is far from a slam-dunk fix for the housing slump. Under the program, which received a provisional patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last month, the developer or homebuilder must give 20% of the purchase price to Herzberg's group as a fee for the put option - a payment that many developers may be reluctant to cough up. "20% is astronomically high!," says one analyst, who did not wish to be named. "What builder would give away 20% when they're doing 5% or 10% [pretax] margins? If they gave away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Guarantee Against Losing Cash on Homes? | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...with it all, I was pretty tired. I really wanted to allow my brain to approach music a little differently. When making this record, I had the feeling of being a little kid coming home from church. I was in my tight, scratchy sailor dress and my tight, scratchy patent-leather shoes. It was the feeling of tearing it all off and running around outside in my underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joanna Newsom | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...site, using a patent-pending behavioral pattern recognition engine, is also able to access users’ Facebook information to match singles whose actions—not just profiles—are compatible...

Author: By NORA A. TUFANO, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Winging it: An Online Helping Hand | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

Democrats’ troubles stem from their handling of health care, an issue on which their arrogance is patent...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc | Title: Kill Obamacare | 1/26/2010 | See Source »

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