Archive for July, 2008

Florida Governor Charlie Crist Celebrates Global Trade with the AWWT Bus Tour

By Liz Hyman
Florida Governor Charlie Crist, along with members of Florida’s Chamber of Commerce, met the CEA “America Wins with Trade” bus as it rolled into Tallahassee. Governor Crist, just back from a successful state economic development trip to Europe, which generated nearly $75 million in trade and investment for the state of Florida, [...]

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Talking with International CES Innovations Award Veterans

By Allison Burdine
The International CES® Innovations Design and Engineering Awards program began 34 years ago and has grown into one of the leading design and engineering awards programs in the consumer electronics industry.
With the Innovations 2009 call for entries opening on August 18, I reached out to two companies who have been involved in [...]

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

A Small Business in Florida Gives a Big Welcome to the America Wins With Trade Bus

By Jason Oxman
Week 2 of the America Wins With Trade grassroots tour kicked off in Florida with a Monday morning event at the Port of Miami. As Dan Cole blogged yesterday following our trade bus visit to Charleston, South Carolina, our nations’ ports are buzzing with exports from U.S. companies selling products to consumers [...]

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

America Wins With Trade Bus Tour – Sitting at the (Charleston) Dock of the Bay

By Dan Cole
While Charleston South Carolina is best known for its beautiful architecture, historic sites and down-home Southern charm, I got to see another side of this over 400 year-old city, and one that was all business.

As CEA’s “America Wins with Trade” bus pulled up to the checkpoint station at the Charleston Seaport, Port [...]

Monday, July 28th, 2008

CEA Interview with Loaded’s Natali del Conte

 
By Tara Dunion
Natali del Conte is the host of CNET TV’s Loaded news show. With the recent CBS purchase of CNET, she’s also been a voice of technology on The Early Show as well as other news programs.
Prior to CNET, she wrote, produced, and hosted a show called TeXtra on the Podshow network.
Natali is [...]

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Virginia Retailer Crutchfield Welcomes America Wins With Trade Bus


By Gary Shapiro
On Thursday afternoon the CEA “America Wins With Trade” bus pulled into the Charlottesville, Virginia, headquarters of Crutchfield, one of the nation’s most pioneering consumer electronics retailers.  Founder Bill Crutchfield and many of his employees welcomed us warmly and enthusiastically.
The county supervisor and executive and broadcast media toured the amazing and legendary warehouse [...]

Friday, July 25th, 2008

CEA Interviews Jason Calacanis On Going Acoustic

 
By Tara Dunion
Jason Calacanis is the CEO of Mahalo.com, a human powered search engine. Previously, he co-founded Weblogs Inc. and served as its CEO and before that he was the General Manager of Netscape and the editor and CEO of Silicon Alley Reporter magazine.
I recently had the opportunity to interview him about his new approach [...]

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Secretary Carlos Gutierrez Leads Free Trade Rally on the Hill

By Jason Oxman
CEA took its free trade campaign to Capitol Hill today for a rally featuring an impressive lineup of speakers and a huge crowd of supporters.  Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez led off the morning’s program, urging Congress to pass pending trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.  Secretary Gutierrez pointed out that [...]

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

America Wins With Trade – HD Radio in Maryland

By Jason Oxman
Wednesday afternoon on the “America Wins With Trade” tour brought us to the Maryland headquarters of iBiquity Digital, where President and CEO Bob Struble welcomed the trade bus and CEA, together with a large group of iBiquity employees. The consumer electronics industry employs nearly 300,000 people in Maryland thanks to free trade, [...]

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Winning with Trade Day Three – Philadelphia Freedom

By Jason Oxman
If it’s Wednesday, we must be in Philadelphia. No cheesesteaks on the menu this morning – just a breakfast of trade, jobs and economic growth. This morning we visited the headquarters of NeatReceipts here in Philly. NeatReceipts makes innovative products that intelligently scan business cards, receipts, and other paper and actually read [...]

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008