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Cattle Industry Annual Convention and Trade Show

Beef lovers, take note: The 6,000 ranchers at this bovine confab may not look like power brokers, but they're ultimately in charge of a $76 billion industry -- and the products that land on your plates. Lately, they worry, too little ...READ»

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Seitz Dental San Antonio dentistry makes family dentist trips easier.

Seitz Dental is a family dentistry team located in San Antonio, Texas. Their website allows you to fill out patient forms, meet the team, and make an appointment. As a father-daughter team, they combine experience and enthusiasm to provide exemplary dentistry due to the fact that they genuinely enjoy their chosen profession. READ»

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Getting the Message Out to Cable Customers with PerfTech

Here's another in our series of interesting tech companies in San Antonio, Texas. Perftech makes technology that lets cable companies communicate with their customers in a new wayREAD»

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There are a number of different style

Leathers are tenderly special and all the boots are complete with the cowboy boots that will change the way you think of different fashion and designs to prefer from, so you will have no challenge discovery a brace of women's cowboy ...READ»

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Encoding HD Faster with Kulabyte

Kulabyte. Blake Wenzel, co-founder, shows how Kulabyte makes encoding technology for HD TV stations that works faster than others and can fit onto a standard laptop. This is part of our tour of interesting San Antonio, TX, tech ...READ»

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Fast Cities

They're 15 up-and-coming hubs for creative workers--places that draw people who are talented, tech savvy, and tolerant. Meet the home of your next big opportunity.READ»

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Fear: The Next Growth Business?

What recession? Last week, at the conference of the American Society for Industrial Security, companies showed off mission-critical technologies and wrestled with the challenges of hypergrowth. A dispatch from the front lines of the anxiety economy.READ»

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Sunrise Lighting - Light up your home

Sunrise Lighting, Sunrise Lights, Socal Lighting, Socal Lights, Sonrise Lighting, Sonrise LightsREAD»

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Leaders, Learners, and Searchers

Attention, class: This is not your father's MBA. "The Learning Journey" teaches what it means to lead in a truly confusing business environment: "We integrate two bottom lines -- profit and mortality."READ»

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Secret Sauce

Behind Whataburger's cult status--and rapid same-store growth--is its corporate Olympics.READ»

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Social Justice - Ernesto Cortes Jr.

"We organize people not just around issues, but around their values."READ»

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Toyota Goes Texan

This morning, Toyota officially opened its new, $1.2 billion factory in San Antonio to produce a bigger version of its Tundra pickup truck. Some observers are calling this big new plant a gamble. It's a huge investment in big ...READ»

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Calculating Commuters

A new government survey by the Census Bureau ranks commute times in the United States. The urban area with the longest commute? New York City. Here's the list: New York Los Angeles Chicago Houston Philadelphia Phoenix San ...READ»

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Truehome and Christopher K. Travis Media Home Runs!

Truehome in the New York Times!READ»

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Rackspace Tears into New Headquarters

San Antonio's RackSpace is about to take over a million-square-foot mall in a bad part of town. Why? Well, in this two part presentation, Graham Weston, chairman, Dirk Elmendorf, Chief Technology Evangelist and Founder and Lew ...READ»

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Make Change, Minimize Distractions

What's Your Problem?READ»

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A New Way to do Live TV Production

[video_twistage 1]NewTek's machines are used in TV studios around the world. Recently we toured San Antonio tech companies and NewTek's Senior Vice President of Strategic Development met us and demonstrated their newest technology: ...READ»

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How to Go from Anonymity to Fame With Just One Tweet

How can a self-proclaimed geeky company with no knowledge of public relations go from virtual anonymity to media darling with just one tweet? This is the story of how social media is changing how companies make news and how the new ...READ»

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Peder Seglund Henrik

Peder Seglund, Peder Henrik SeglundREAD»

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Local Hero: Frost Bank

San Antonio, Texas In Texas, it's not uncommon for us locals to anoint our homegrown institutions with cult status. Whataburger. Austin City Limits. But a bank? As I heard murmurs about how 138-year-old Frost Bank, with fewer ...READ»

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75th Anniversary of WPA

Critics of the Works Progress Administration saw it as nearly communist, but the agency, created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a Depression-era stimulus package, delivered a solid return on investment. A piddling ...READ»

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Geographic Bias: One of the Greatest Threats to Marketing and Research

Too often, we find ourselves applying the "focus group of one" mentality to our work, assuming that the place we're from is indicative of what the country--or the world--thinks. But we have to strive to challenge our own geographic assumptions and bring a diversity of cultural perspectives to the discussion.READ»

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Freedom to Roam

A cell-phone for the Off-Road Warrior.READ»

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Skyonic Wants to Turn Factory Spew Into Baking Soda

Once carbon dioxide emissions are removed from power and industrial plants, where should they go? Some people think they should be stuffed underground, others think they can turn them into plastic, and now a startup called Skyonic ...READ»

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Congress of Cities

Public officials seem to spend lots of time -- and public money -- jetting here and there, attending this conference or that, networking with one another. What good does it do? Quite a bit, says Mayor Ted Ellis of Bluffton, Indiana. A ...READ»