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Capital investment key to surviving shrinking paper industry (The Hamilton Journal News) - For 43 years, Middletown resident and Graphic Packaging plant worker Dave Elrod said he has watched the area's paper industry shrink in size.

Air of Confidence for Favorite; Industry Holds Breath (New York Times) - As much as those in the horse racing industry would like to see Big Brown make history on Saturday, it is far more important that all the horses get through the races safely.

Japan's arcade industry slumps as Wii takes off (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Japanese superhero Ultraman vanquishes an evil enemy during a live performance at a Tokyo games arcade. But Ultraman's real battle is proving much harder -- enticing customers back to the nation's arcades.

eRevMax eyes hospitality industry in India (Express India) - eRevMax Ltd, a New Jersey-headquartered company into developing revenue-maximising products for the software industry, is looking at the hospitality industry in India, which is poised to tackle a shortfall of 1.5 lakh rooms by 2010.

The Online Information Source for the Medical Device Industry (Medical Device Link) - Due to the high costs and long lead time of product development and regulatory approval, profitability in the medical device industry depends on a manufacturer's ability to design and develop products that have a long lifespan in the marketplace.

INDUSTRY & ECONOMY (The Hindu) - EMPLOYMENT ‘Employ differently-abled people, Govt will pick up the EPF, ESI tab’ New Delhi, May 17 The Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, has urged industry to employ at least 1,00,000 differently-abled people before the end of the year and promised that the Government will pick up the tab of the employee provident ...

Construction industry hit hard : Local News (Victorville Daily Press) - After California lost more jobs in construction than any other industry this March, the Victor Valley has been hit hard as residential construction jobs become scarce.

The Computer Industry Comes With Built-In Term Limits (New York Times) - Empirical evidence suggests that Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft?s chief executive, will not succeed to sustain in the Internet era what his company had attained in the personal computing era.

German industry seeks role in modernizing Russia (International Herald Tribune) - The German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, told President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia that German industry was prepared to help the Russian economy reduce its dependence on energy and commodities.

'Media production is still new and exciting here'; Movie and TV industry booming in Simcoe County (Barrie Examiner) - Simcoe County's 'star' has been steadily rising in the television and movie industry. Over the last 10 years, media companies have had a growing interest in Simcoe County as a filming location. Big-budget feature films, TV series, commercials and music videos have all been shot in the [...]