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IBM Breaks Ground On New Technology Center In Baton Rouge, LA

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The project will create 800 new direct jobs, and LED estimates the project will result in an additional 542 new indirect jobs, for a total of more than 1,300 new permanent jobs in the Capital Region of Louisiana. To fast-track growth, LSU’s College of Engineering will launch the “Geaux Digital Louisiana” consortium. King Alexander.

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Baton Rouge Named No. 1 Metro For Economic Growth Potential In Business Facilities 9th Annual Rankings Report

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with services that address the increasing demand for flexible software to keep up with Big Data, cloud and mobile requirements. Mobile, AL snared second place in the magazine’s Economic Growth Potential Ranking on the strength of its success in landing a crown jewel of aerospace manufacturing—the North American assembly hub for Airbus.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

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The rapid and widespread adoption of mobile and social technologies within the last three years has changed the way customers and companies interact with one another—driving fundamental transformations to business processes and applications. The new Baton Rouge center will provide IBM’s clients in the U.S.

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IBM Announces Creation Of 800-Job Technology Center In Downtown Baton Rouge

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The rapid and widespread adoption of mobile and social technologies within the last three years has changed the way customers and companies interact with one another – driving fundamental transformations to business processes and applications. degrees in computer science awarded annually.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – State Rankings

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We wish we could tell you that most locations are mobilizing to fix the nation’s crumbling roads, bridges and dams; unfortunately, the opposite seems to be true: the United States received an overall grade of D+ in the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) annual assessment, our starting point for BF’s evaluation.

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Ports And FTZs: Enter With Less Risk

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Ports also play a role in national security by supporting the mobilization, deployment and resupply of U.S. PORT OF SOUTH LOUISIANA: A BEVY OF ACTIVITY. This is the second year in a row we are number one in that category”, says Paul Aucoin, Executive Director of the Port of South Louisiana. military forces.

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Cover Story: Global Biotech Report

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Services cover the spectrum of clinical trial feasibility, study design, study mobilization, study management, data linkage, real world evidence and analysis and reporting. Pfizer will be responsible for R&D and potential commercialization of candidate molecules. LOUISIANA: SOLID BASE FOR BIOTECH.