Tag Archives: Capital Region

Incongruity in Waterford

The Black Widow enters the New York State Barge Canal locks at Waterford on its journey from The Intrepid in NYC to the aircraft museum in Glenville.

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4th!

The Forbes Best Cities for Jobs list cites the Capital Region as fourth in the USA for job prospects. Here’s an excerpt: Albany, like a lot of the cities on this and other lists, is a state capital. But Schenectady … Continue reading

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Five Chipmakers Chip In

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today that IBM, Intel, Samsung, TSMC, and GlobalFoundaries will all be adding jobs upstate, according to the Business Review. Five major international computer-chip companies will inject $4.4 billion into five new R&D operations … Continue reading

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Goodbye Austin, Hello Albany

The Business Review reports that International Sematech will be moving their headquarters and more than 100 jobs to Albany in January. International Sematech’s headquarters and all operations will move in January 2011 to the the University at Albany’s College of … Continue reading

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13th!

Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr The Albany-Schenectady metro ranks 13th on the Daily Beast’s list of the Brainiest Cities: Where do the biggest brainiacs in America live? Richard Florida crunches the numbers to figure out the smartest … Continue reading

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How Green is the Capital Region?

Image via Wikipedia Chris Churchill’s post on the TimesUnion.com Places and Spaces reports on a survey conducted by The Business Courier of Cincinnati: …the Capital Region scored first in the nation in study’s “green jobs per capita” ranking, and ranked … Continue reading

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