The survey of 4,500 companies in the services and manufacturing sectors showed that the economic downturn is 'gathering pace and spreading' across the 17-nation eurozone, said Markit chief economist Chris Williamson....More
Boeing CEO Jim McNerney noted that the threat of sequestration already has forced the aerospace firm to delay hiring and 'trim employment in certain places.'...More
Muhtar Kent's remarks came just weeks after New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a ban on super-sized soft drinks that would restrict the sale to 16-ounce servings....More
Pushing the limits of an aging infrastructure, U.S. manufacturers face a future of increasing costs and instability unless new technologies and new investments can rejuvenate the system....More
Microsoft, ArcelorMittal and DuPont are among the firms that have promised to take steps to be more environmentally and socially responsible, although critics are wary of greenwashing....More
The data adds to an increasingly gloomy picture of the once-booming Indian economy, which analysts say has been hit by a lack of economic reforms, high interest rates, plummeting business confidence and the eurozone debt crisis....More
Aides to the Republican White House hopeful rolled out a series of web videos Sunday and Monday calling out the president for remarks intended to reassure a jittery American public about the health of private business, but that backfired badly....More
The ideological deadlock between Republicans and Democrats continues to block real solutions for closing the government's deficit and bringing down debt, the ratings agency said....More
Nearly 40 years ago, IW declared: Electric cars are 'not coming; they're here.' Judge for yourself how far the electric-vehicle market has come since then....More
Dialogue introducing new forecasting study on what the economy might look like in 2025 with a manufacturing resurgence. Video from the Aspen Institute....More
Manufacturing makes America strong. It makes families and communities strong. It provides national security. It gives us energy security. And for the 12 million men and women who work in manufacturing, it gives us pride....More
Christopher Barnatt of ExplainingComputers.com demonstrates how Big Data is transforming the business and industrial worlds and enabling new technologies and new breakthroughs that will help manufacturers work more efficiently than ever before....More
Beyond an initial novelty, 3D Printing could have a game-changing impact on consumer culture, copyright and patent law, and even the very concept of scarcity on which our economy is based....More
Christopher Barnatt of ExplainingTheFuture.com illustrates the inner workings of additive manufacturing machines and provides some real-life examples of how 3-D printing technology could dramatically change the manufacturing and retail industries as we know them today....More
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab break down the engineering and design challenges they faced during the Curiosity rover's complicated landing near the Martian equator on Aug. 5, 2012....More
