The retrospective "Abbas Kiarostami: Image Maker," opening today, is a good reminder.
Anybody can become a maker, opening the field to the fantastical ideas that, until now, were trapped in the heads of those without the years of training or access to mad stacks of cash necessary for making cool stuff. .
Pirelli, Europe's third-largest tire maker, opened its first store dedicated to clothing and accessories here on Tuesday.
In September, Altana, a German drug maker, opened its marketing headquarters in an old Exxon building in Florham Park, N.J.
Shares in the industrial parts maker opened at $19.05 on Thursday, despite Rexnord pricing its I.P.O. at $18, the bottom of its expected price range.
In a patch of land that once held pine, spruce and oak trees, an auto-parts maker opened a modern-looking manufacturing plant here five years ago.
Intel, the world's biggest chip maker, opened a $600 million plant this year in Chengdu, and Hewlett-Packard built a laptop factory in Chongqing, both cities in the Sichuan, a province in western China.
Shares of Intel, the world's biggest semiconductor maker, opened higher this morning as the company said sales in the current quarter were coming in better than expected.
SaaS pioneer Salesforce.com has more recently pioneered Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), whereby the San Mateo, Calif.-based software maker opened up its platform for other application developers.
We could very well see a Chinese solar cell maker open up an American plant to reduce the costs of shipping cells to the American market.
But the P.R.I. was also handed its hat in the states of Oaxaca, Puebla and Sinaloa, where its rule has been as sure a thing as the market opening for business and the tortilla makers opening their stands.
