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A Cheapskate in Monterey

Baua Electric

“For the last five years, some of our leading chefs have abandoned fine dining and opened artisanal food businesses,” said Deborah Luhrman, the editor and publisher of the food magazine Edible Monterey Bay , who recommended both bakeries. I passed a landscape painter and jaw-dropping Pebble Beach mansions before coasting into Carmel.

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Opinon: Lithium Market Set To Explode; All Eyes Are On Nevada

Green Car Congress

Tesla—which will require large quantities of lithium at cheaper prices—has already signed agreements to purchase lithium from Canadian Bacanora Minerals Ltd and British Rare Earth Minerals Plc. These batteries make smartphones, laptops, tablets, electric cars and even solar energy practical.”.

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Powered By IEEE Program Saves Startups Money

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Running a startup isn't cheap. Participants receive a US $10,000 credit toward the purchase of software from Freshworks , which provides customer-relationship management tools. Participants receive a US $10,000 credit toward the purchase of software from Freshworks , which provides customer-relationship management tools.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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In contention was the contract for the electronics of Polaroid’s secret project—a pioneering product introduced in 1972 as the SX-70, a camera eventually purchased by millions of people. Still, though the parts were not cheap, costing Fairchild approximately $20 or $30 each, they were manufacturable. Cambridge, Mass. To probe further.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute! We were using people who were there anyway,” said Ziembicki.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Governor Kulongoski is currently pushing a plan before the state legislature to cut some hefty tax breaks for electric vehicle manufacturers who choose to come to Oregon, as well as provide huge tax credits to purchasers of electric cars. “My See the below link for a more in depth discussion of this topic. Staff Tom Zeller Jr.

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