May 10--The flood of domestic oil produced over the past five years has boosted jobs, royalty payments and contributions to tax coffers. It also has led to higher profits, and not just for the oil producers. It's quarterly earnings season, the time when publicly...

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May 01--The U.S. Geological Survey on Tuesday nearly tripled its estimate of recoverable oil and natural gas in the Bakken Formation of North Dakota and Montana. While the gain makes the Bakken the fastest-growing oil field in the world, the new numbers are still lower than Oklahoma...

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The White House on Thursday announced two business-friendly initiatives to coordinate U.S. manufacturing and manage federal data helpful to job creation. The first plan calls for the creation of three new manufacturing "innovation institutes," with the aim of coordinating resources, including education, training and local infrastructure to...

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KNOXVILLE -- The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory hired the 11th joint Governor's Chair, an advanced manufacturing expert from Ohio State University. Sudarsanam Suresh Babu, a professor in the Welding Engineering Program in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has conducted research that...

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May 03--Decreasing costs of manufacturing will lead to a mushrooming of IT hardware companies in the coming years, according to MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito. "That trend of software getting cheap to make is also happening with hardware with the manufacturing of items such as 3D...

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