Archive for April, 2010
Look who’s giving business “The Upper Hand”
Gotta hand it to the Michigan Economic Development Cooperation. I’ll stop the puns now, but I do love that ad campaign.
Anyway, the Motor City’s getting a good bit of the battery business from the federal government. Get the details on plans from the big players like Johnson Controls, EnerDel and A123 here:
First phase of the BeltLine opens this weekend
The Atlanta Memorial Trail opens for business tomorrow at 3 p.m.
Fortune Magazine’s Brainstorm: GREEN conference almost here
Not only is this probably the most elite gathering of the country’s leading thinkers and doers in green technology, but it’s at the Ritz-Carlton in Laguna Niguel.
Autodesk shops for technology in Israel
Here’s a neat story by Israel21C, a site that provides news from Israel “beyond the conflit.”
Israel boast the world’s highest number of startups per capita, according to the book, “Startup Nation,” about the country’s entrepreneurial climate. And clearly, American innovators like Autodesk have taken notice.
The California-based company is a leader in software for virtual design, which obviously cuts down on the cost and time and waste of manual construction. Its purchase of Israel’s PlanPlatform software allows for live collaboration among designers. And it means that PlanPlatform’s former CEO, Tal Weiss, now heads up Autodesk’s AutoCad R&D program in Israel, according to the article, which you can click on below for more details.
What blows my mind is the picture that goes with it — of the leadership trio behind PlanPlatform. They look like high school kids. Amazing.
http://tinyurl.com/yl3ummk
