Alcoa is taking measures worldwide to reduce high-cost smelting capacity. But the company is striking a different chord in the often strike-prone territory of Québec, where Alcoa and the provincial government announced in February an agreement to improve the competitiveness of its three smelters, securing 3,000 jobs.
Utah’s talking a little smack these days, nerd-style. “In technology we have an acronym – SMAC – Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud,” says Niel Nickolaisen, technology chief for O.C. Tanner, a fast-growing Salt Lake City-based technology firm. “Utah is really strong in all four.” To the surprise of people not in the tech-know world, the […]