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Fairchild said in early December that Linux Journal was closing largely due to debt accrued during its days as a print publication, even though it went online-only in 2011. At the time, she mused that "there is some hope . . . that a savior might come through." And that is what happened.
"In addition, they aren't merely rescuing this ship we were ready to scuttle; they're making it seaworthy again and are committed to making it bigger and better than we were ever in a position to think about during our entirely self-funded past," Fairchild wrote in her New Year's Day post.
Fairchild will remain as publisher, and Linux Journal will continue to be based out of Houston, she said in a Facebook Messenger interview. In her web post, she said the publication's high-profile writers will remain on board, and the publication will explore "new and better business models."
Port Houston is winning big taking advantage of the Panama Canal expansion adding to Houston's economic diversity..
Port Houston benefits from stronger retail demand
As more ships use the Panama Canal, containers carrying imports climb locally
Retail imports surged in Houston and other U.S. ports last year, buoyed by economic gains and a shift in global shipping patterns that has routed more traffic through the recently widened Panama Canal.
Port Houston estimates that it handled a record 2.4 million standard containers - known as 20-foot equivalent units - in 2017, the first full year after completion of the canal's $5.3 billion expansion. The total rose 14 percent from the prior year, driven largely by a stronger Texas economy and an increase in consumer goods imported from Asia. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/bus...d-12482958.php
Foreign investment in the Greater Houston area adding multiple layers of economic diversity.
( a couple of the firms mention in this story are Petrochemical companies, however several are in areas such as logistics, construction, and medical technology, and overall are a diversified group)
German Companies with Houston expansions
BASF Corp : petrochemical company
Bauer-Pileco : foundation engineering equipment
Bertling Logistics : global logistics company
Busch : vacuum pump manufacturer
Cruse : digital imagine equipment company
Draeger : medical technology company
deutsche Windtechnik : wind turbine company
Haltermann Carless : oil and gas company
Linde Group : gases and engineering company
Lufthansa Cargo : airfreight logistics company
NeoRig : oil drilling and rig manufacturer
Wilka Instrument : temperature and pressure gauge manufacturer
After two years of declining jobs, local manufacturing employment has begun rising at a fast clip. Houston's 4.6 percent annual job growth in the manufacturing sector is nearly four times the national average, Bureau of Labor Statistics reports show.
The local comeback is due in part to the rise of German manufacturers expanding their operations in the Houston region and buoying the once-lagging sector, said Keith Dalton, president and CEO of Kingham Dalton Wilson, a Houston developer that has built or broken ground on nearly 600,000 square feet of production facilities, warehouses and distribution centers on behalf of German companies over the past 15 years.
Several German companies have expanded their Houston footprint in recent years, including BASF, Bayer Material Science, DB Schenker, Linde Group and Siemens.
German manufacturers are flocking to Houston for several reasons, the German chamber's Stefanie Jehlitschka said.Houston is centrally located between the east and west coasts, has a major shipping port and is close to Mexico. The seven-hour time difference between Germany and Houston allows for same-day conference calls
Germany is Houston's fourth largest international trade partner, with $9.3 billion in trade during 2016, up from $5.8 billion in 2009, according to the Greater Houston Partnership.
Another German firm is importing cars through the Port of Galveston to dealerships in the south central United States. Adding to the areas economic diversity
BMW Group formally opened its vehicle distribution center at the Port of Galveston Wednesday morning.
"The vehicle distribution center will have a substantial impact on the region," said Port Director Michael Mierzwa. He said it aligns with the port's efforts "to attract new businesses that will promote jobs and economic prosperity for our community."
Vehicles will be shipped to the distribution center from Germany and South Africa. In Galveston, there are areas to wash the vehicles; install accessories such as larger rims, different gear shifters or alternate floor mats; update vehicle software; and make needed repairs.
The facility can import and process roughly 32,500 vehicles a year, bringing an import value of about $1.3 billion a year.
When leaving Galveston, the vehicles are distributed to 45 BMW and Mini centers in a portion of the southern U.S., including Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas.
Texas is a leader in aerospace, home to the only human space flight center in the nation, a planetary institute and over 1,400 aerospace-related companies. Texas also employs more than 148,000 aerospace workers and exports billions in manufactured aerospace goods. Aerospace is an important research and business sector for the state.
At the TAMEST 2018 Annual Conference: Aerospace, we’ll explore the potential in Texas for greater research and development in aerospace, specifically in the areas of human space flight, aeronautics and commercial space exploration.
Medical and pharmaceutical innovation adding to Houston's economic diversity.
HOUSTON, TX - January 25, 2018 - The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) named Fannin Innovation Studio as one of 20 winners of its fourth national Growth Accelerator Fund competition. Fannin will use the $50,000 proceeds of the award to expand at Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLABS @ TMC, where Fannin will now be able to conduct in-house R&D for selected therapeutic development projects. Fannin will continue to foster talent in the local startup ecosystem with plans to increase enrollment in its fellowship and internship programs. As of date more than 165 early stage career scientists have been recruited as fellows and interns for Fannin’s life science entrepreneurship development program since its inception.
Partnerships expand MD Anderson’s reach from coast to coast
Four new partnerships will bring greater access to advanced cancer care in California, New Jersey and Texas
The MD Anderson Cancer Network’s four newest partnerships are providing adult cancer patients in California, Texas and New Jersey with access to the most advanced oncology care in the country.
Growing in the Garden State
In April, MD Anderson and Summit Medical Group, the largest and oldest physician-owned multispecialty practice in New Jersey, announced they would join together to form the Summit Medical Group MD Anderson Cancer Center, bringing world class cancer services to patients in northern New Jersey and the surrounding area. MD Anderson first brought its top-ranked cancer care to the state in 2013, when it partnered with Cooper University Health Care to create MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper in Camden, New Jersey. Summit Medical Group is an extension of MD Anderson at Cooper. MD Anderson’s partnership with Summit is the first time the cancer center has partnered with a physician-owned-and-governed multispecialty group. Better care for Southern California
In August, MD Anderson and San Diego-based Scripps Health agreed to an affiliation that creates Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center. The center provides care to patients in eight Southern California counties, from Santa Barbara to the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Cancer Network by the numbers
Partner Members: 5
Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center (Gilbert, Arizona)
MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper (Camden, New Jersey)
Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center (Jacksonville, Florida)
Summit Medical Group MD Anderson Cancer Center (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey)
Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center (San Diego)
On the way: Announced partnerships with UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center and UT Health Northeast MD Anderson Cancer Center take effect later in 2017
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THANK YOU NEW YORK!
We held our first-ever SnapStream User Conference, in New York on Feb 2, 2018, and it was a huge success. We learned a lot from the event which will influence the direction of our product. There were some thoughtful discussions, exciting sneak peeks and a lot of connections were made as we continue to grow our SnapStream community. And to all the speakers and everyone that made it to the event: thank you.
Rakesh Agrawal, founder and chief executive at SnapStream, the company that enables customers like "The Daily Show" to search video clips for its stories, has gone all-in on cryptomining. In fact, so have many of his 30 employees
Wander through SnapStream's offices just west of downtown and you'll see mining rigs in many of them. Lined up against a wall in a common area are eight shipping boxes that each once held 10 high-end Nvidia graphics cards. Those cards have now been installed in dozens of rigs running at SnapStream and at Agrawal's home.
"I am in a verbal arm-wrestling match with my wife over putting one in the living room," he said. "I told her, 'No one sleeps in this room.'"
He envisions a conversation starter when guests visit; she fears an eyesore. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/tec...n-12559174.php
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We have three articles today covering three different segments of Houston's economic diversity. 1st up is renewable energy and the cluster of talent that is forming in Houston. Next up is biotech and a German company that has set up their American HQ's in Houston and 3rd a website covering Houston's start-up community.
Base of talent provides lift to Houston's renewable energy sector
Michael Skelly seemed like thousands of other people when he arrived in Houston in the late 1990s to work for energy companies. But Skelly stood out for one reason: He had come to nation's oil and gas capital to help build a wind farm business.
"And it was a little bit lonely," he said.
Two decades later, Houston's renewable businesses are still overshadowed by the city's lineup of oil, gas and chemical companies, but Skelly is far less lonely. Houston has become home to wind project developers, renewable energy transmission companies and residential solar firms that together employ thousands - solar companies alone employ more than 2,000 alone, according to industry estimates - and many in the renewables business only expect it to grow into a larger, more critical component of Houston's energy industry.
German biotech company finds a good fit in Houston
Houston is a great place to start a biotech company, says Harpreet Singh, founder and managing director of Immatics, based in Tuebingen, Germany, and CEO of Immatics US, its Houston-based subsidiary.
He is an immunologist born in Frankfurt to Indian-immigrant parents and is developing immuno-therapies with MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Q: What is your vision for Immatics?
A: Houston, with the Texas Medical Center, is one of the best places in the U.S. to build a biotech company. Our vision is to build one of the leading biotech companies in the U.S., even globally, in cancer immunotherapy.
We are not looking just for a short extension of life by a few weeks or a few months. We're looking for something that will last years. Or even, and I am reluctant to use the c-word, maybe a cure.
Gordon Taylor has received requests from venture capitalists to move his ride-sharing company, Croozen, to Boston, where he would have access to a startup-friendly ecosystem and more venture capital.
Instead, his team is working out of a temporary office space on the former site of an oil and gas equipment manufacturing company in west Houston
Though Houston has a ways to go before it can match cities like Boston in terms of startup resources, entrepreneurs like Taylor are willing to give their hometown a chance, especially thanks to a new development called The Cannon.
The brainchild of local venture capitalist, Mark Toon, The Cannon is a new 120,000-square-foot co-working accelerator space slated for completion by the end of the year.
Half of the building, in a former Surefire Industries facility on Brittmoore Road, will consist of desk and office space for startups. The other half will house everything from a community bank and tax and audit experts to venture capital firms.
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Diversified businesses add to Houston's economic diversity
Germany-based MAN Diesel & Turbo, a manufacturer of marine propulsion systems and turbomachinery, will locate its 137,434-square-foot headquarters and production center at Twinwood business park in west Houston, Texas. The new plant is expected to employ 142 workers.
MAN Diesel & Turbo's new North American headquarters will locate in a build-to-suit building owned by Houston-based Welcome Group. It will include 105,309 square feet of air-conditioned service shop space and 32,125 square feet of office space. The Design/Build project by Houston-based KDW is slated to span one year, beginning in the second quarter of 2018.
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The Cannon is comming !
