"There is no better time to be in the Philippines than now, " says Robbie Antonio, managing director of Century Properties, a Manila real estate firm whose array of luxury construction projects includes Trump Tower, Makati City.

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TechShop's overseers have, quite cannily, begun to offer up a portion of the warehouse's 17, 000 square feet as office space, giving its members a shot at some prime San Francisco real estate, a flight of stairs up from an impressive array of machine tools -- laser cutters, water jets and more 3D printers than most mortals have seen in one place.

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For example, AirStrip offers virtual real time remote patient heart monitoring technology to a broad array of acute patient clinical settings.

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It uses a wider array of asset classes, including municipal and corporate bonds and real estate.

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