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		<title>Onshore Insourcing: Indian Firm Moving Jobs to City</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent news about the economy has been unsettling, to be sure- but the entire last decade has also seen a steady decline in manufacturing jobs locally, particularly within the city itself. In a welcome reversal of fortune, Mayor Joseph Wilders will announce today that Nihar Products Limited (NPL), the world’s fifth leading manufacturer of buttons, eyelets and aglets has officially signed a deal to move its largest factory to the old McKennick Screw Works building on Industrial Boulevard and relocate its U.S. headquarters to the Chandler Building downtown. The addition of NPL to the local manufacturing community had been the subject of insistent rumor ever since Mayor Wilders &#8220;vacation&#8221; to southern India last winter. NPL was founded in Bangalore, India in 1971, but in recent years has found itself competing for office and warehouse space against a tidal wave of software and telecommunications companies, filling every unoccupied piece of commercial real estate in the Indian state of Karnataka with technical support phone banks.  Unable to expand in their home region to meet the needs of a growing number of contracts and a thriving clientele, Nihar dispatched representatives to scout six municipalities around the world, including Dibrugarh (India), Shanghai (China), Hamburg [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The New-Economy Day Laborers&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Craig Gaines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A misunderstanding over the attempted coining of a new phrase has resulted in an unlikely friendship between two groups of the City’s workforce. When Tomas Babushkin announced the opening of WorkSHOP, his new “wiki-place” where freelance information professionals can rent cubicles, collaborate on projects, and drink complimentary espresso and yerba mate, he foresaw a clientele dressed in open-collar Prada shirts and Chip &#38; Pepper jeans. What he didn’t expect were strong, silent types in flannel shirts and Carharts. But WorkSHOP’s unexpected diverse clientele now includes many of the migrant workers drawn to the City in hopes of finding landscaping, construction, or agricultural work. Babushkin is still trying to adapt to this mixture of open-source and open-borders, but the “rock-ribbed entrepreneur” is thrilled to have the opportunity. “I guess I brought this situation onto myself,” said the former chief interaction architect for social-networking site MishMash. “But it is what it is, and I’m committed to serving all my customers, whether they’re running from corporate careers or ICE.” It all started during Babushkin’s media blitz to draw attention to WorkSHOP. He was looking to advertise his services but also cultivate an image of the nebulous group of writers, artists, and consultants who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tech Company &#8220;De-friends&#8221; City, Investors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city’s latest great tech hope, Software &#38; Co., has swiftly and suddenly left town, leaving behind an angry mob of scammed investors, jilted customers, and red-faced city officials. Its abandonment of the city’s much-touted &#8220;High-Tech High-Rise&#8221; building (formerly known as the Main Administration Building at the old Bellmet Manufacturing complex) renders Mayor Wilders&#8217; “22nd-century incubator” devoid of tenants or much of a future. S&#38;Co.’s main number has been disconnected, its Web site has vanished, and the known homes of the company’s CEO and COO had for-sale signs posted in their front lawns yesterday. The company has vanished, as have its investors’ funds. “We don’t know where they are, and we’re beginning to think we don’t know who they are,” said a perplexed Mayor Wilders, who just eight months ago badly sliced open his hand when he christened the opening of the High-Tech High-Rise with a bottle of sparkling apple juice. “I can tell you one thing: They certainly won’t be getting back their security deposit on the building.” Trouble started mounting for S&#38;Co. last month, when it had to pull its debut software product 2Face, an application for the popular social-networking Web site Facebook that allowed users to keep [...]]]></description>
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