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CLEVELAND, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The editors of Penton Media's IndustryWeek have selected 10 honorees for the inaugural class of the IW Manufacturing Hall of Fame. IndustryWeek is the premiere publication serving executive and operations leaders in the manufacturing industry. IndustryWeek has a long history of acknowledging the leaders of manufacturing operations through distinguishing programs such as the IW 50, IW 500 and IW Best Plants. Through the IW Manufacturing Hall of Fame, IndustryWeek now is extending recognition to individual leaders in the manufacturing community whose vision, leadership, and legacy not only provided value to their individual organizations but also beneficially impacted the larger business community and our society. A feature story in our December 2009 issue will highlight these achievements to the 121,000 subscribers of IndustryWeek and also will appear on the IndustryWeek Web site at: www.industryweek.com/mfg2009hof. IndustryWeek is pleased to highlight their accomplishments to our audience of manufacturing ...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Are cars becoming mundane transportation or does the future hold an exciting and innovative new era in auto design? This is one of many questions being addressed by a panel of prominent auto designers during the Los Angeles Auto Show on Dec. 3. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060612/LAM005LOGO) Daniel Lyons, Newsweek's Technology Editor, will moderate a revealing discussion with a renowned group of designers including Ian Callum, Director of Design at Jaguar Cars; Derek Jenkins, Director of Design, Mazda North American Operations and Franz von Holzhausen, Chief Designer at Tesla Motors. Lyons will examine with this notable group of automotive design leaders how new market conditions, tougher environmental regulations and changing consumer preferences will ultimately impact what consumers drive in the future. During this special Newsweek presented forum, controversial topics surrounding the future of automotive design will be debated. A few of ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced that InternetNews.com (a Jupitermedia property; Nasdaq: JUPM), has listed chairman and CEO Marc Benioff among the technology industry's most visionary CEOs. As one of the top 10 industry leaders to be honored with its 2009 CEO Vision Awards, InternetNews.com recognized Benioff for his entrepreneurial spirit, and for the company's innovation with the Force.com platform and the Service Cloud. In addition to Benioff, the list included industry luminaries such as Evan Williams, Twitter; Steve Jobs, Apple; John Chambers, Cisco; Paul Maritz, VMware; and Carol Bartz, Yahoo. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050216/SFW105LOGO) "For 10 years we have worked to develop upon our unique vision of helping customers run their businesses without the hassles of buying, deploying and maintaining software," said Benioff. "These efforts enable our customers to use our cloud computing solutions to make their companies more effective, more agile ...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been known throughout the world as being a one-trick pony, drawing 97% of its revenue from online-advertising. A Barron's article today discusses a new book on Google from Ken Auletta which makes a bullish case for the behemoth near-term, but raises some questions about ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- nGenera Corporation(TM), a provider of collaboration software solutions and services, today announced that Tammy Erickson, Managing Director of nGenera Collaboration Services and one of the world's Top 50 business thinkers, will deliver the opening keynote address at Enterprise 2.0 on November 3 in San Francisco. Ms. Erickson's session, titled What Business Executives Really Think About E2.0, looks at the technology-enabled transformation underway within major corporations. Leveraging 2.0 effectively represents a significant challenge for organizations with strongly ingrained traditional practices. In ...