Austin, Texas, which holds the No. 2 spot, also stands out for its low cost of living, varied-size companies and diverse talent pool.
The carrier has gained tremendous respect and popularity for its low-cost business model and thrives on maintaining low operating expenses, in part due to its fuel hedging programs.
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Embrace, once a finalist in the Dell Social Innovation Challenge competition, has received ongoing acclaim for its low-cost infant incubator.
Skype is well known for its low-cost, long-distance calling rates, and makes a good chunk of its revenue from international calls to landlines and cellphones.
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With Samsung looking launch-weary one month into Q2 (at least 8 new products in smartphones and tablets in three months), the time could be right for Apple to extend its low-cost experiment with the iPad, into phones.
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Some economists give more credit to the company than to Alan Greenspan for the low inflation of the past 20 years, given how greatly its low-cost model has rippled through the industry and the economy.
But while it has so far relied on a low-cost manufacturing strategy for its success, it is shifting gears as a restless work force and the results of its one-child policy threaten its manufacturing advantage.
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In the 1950s, Ford worked on what it called internally the "E Car" E for experimental to be priced between its low-cost Ford and more upscale Mercury badges.
Dow contributes the technical know-how for producing plastics and chemicals, while its partners provide low-cost feedstocks and access to new markets.
Nokia is making great strides with its Microsoft Windows based low cost phones specifically designed for emerging markets.
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With SmartSuite, Humana was able to keep health care cost inflation for its own Louisville employees to a low 4.9% increase versus an expected 19.2% hike.
Cloud is also driving evolutionary change in its components, like server microvisors for stronger security, low cost Flash storage for large data sets and energy-saving chips.
Because of its low cost model, Southwest has been stayed profitable for the past 40 years, which is unprecedented in the industry.
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OpenAIRE builds on well-known and low cost technology for an Open Access infrastructure and bases its activities on the European network of institutional and thematic repositories.
Daewoo's Lanos is just the sort of low-cost sedan it makes sense for GM to make at its Thai plant.
It says that its customers have paid for them and that they are entitled to the low-cost power sources the Southeast provides.
The reputation of its Tory-controlled local authority, Wandsworth, for cost-cutting and low-taxes (aided by generous central-government grants) has entrenched the habit of voting Tory.
Still, despite its high cost and low power, Shane Terblanche, general manager for electric vehicles at Navistar, says electric trucks will not be just a niche product.
Across the Atlantic, low-cost Ryanair rolled out reservations for certain seats across all its routes in January, while its rival Easyjet has also been experimenting with the practice.
That conference (its full title is Capillary Based Microfluidics for Bioanalysis), which focuses on low cost diagnostics and medical devices is in Boston, US. The annual Boring event was originally set up as a joke in 2010.
While an increase in prime loan rates will likely impact both interest income as well as interest expense for Wells Fargo, the fact that Wells Fargo derives the majority of its funding from low cost core deposits will help the firm restrain its interest expense even as interest rates increase and thus boost its net interest margins.
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Meanwhile, Indonesia's low cost Lion Air has placed its first order with Airbus, asking for 234 A320 family aircraft.
Haryana, benefiting from its proximity to New Delhi, had become a preferred low-cost destination for the back offices of global companies.
For the past decade, Beijing has been shaping its foreign policy around securing long-term low-cost supplies of oil and other raw materials that it needs to sustain its economic development.
Furthermore, GM is also expected to bring a mini SUV called Trax and a low cost version of its entry level car Spark, although launch time-frame for these cars is not confirmed yet.
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The latest clue will come Wednesday in Shanghai at the Intel Developer Forum, where the chip maker will detail its new lineup of low-cost, low-power processors, dubbed Atom, for handheld devices and embedded gizmos.
So Amazon will undoubtedly continue to aggressively price its tablets at around the cost of making them, thereby creating an extremely low price umbrella for everything but the newest iPads.
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His view is that this is something of a deliberate strategy, and that Amazon will use he first-party business to drive scale to attract and retain consumers and third-party sellers, to build out its fulfillment infrastructure, to be the anchor tenant for Amazon Web Services and as a source of low-cost capital.
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