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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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The new facility, which will increase Apple’s workforce in Austin to more than 6,700, will serve as the primary operations nexus for the company in the Americas outside of Apple’s global headquarters in Cupertino, CA, centralizing accounting, human resources, sales, marketing and finance. Airbus is the largest customer of the U.S.

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Home Builder Success and the Fragility of Good Things

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In my home market of Detroit, which few consider a good market, there are just a handful of nationals and a few smaller regionals. For example, Atlanta, Dallas, and Phoenix have long been hot markets, but go into those and you’re competing with every national builder, a host of strong regionals, and more locals than you can count. Product.

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Investor Activity Rose to a Record High in 2021

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Investor purchases accounted for a substantial share of total home sales in 2021, specifically in minority neighborhoods battling a preexisting affordability crisis and longstanding homeownership gaps. But some of the most targeted Zip codes overall are in the Rust Belt, especially heavily minority neighborhoods in Detroit and Cleveland.

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FEATURE STORY: Thailand — Nuanced Nation, One-Stop Shop

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At the start of 2013, the taxable net profit rate is 20 percent, a reduction of 3 percent from the 2012 accounting year. Citibank is the largest American retail bank in Thailand while Western Digital, a computer hard drive manufacturer, is the largest employer of Thai nationals (approximately 25,000 people).