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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 
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 [...]

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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 [...]

 
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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]