
Google’s new wireless home media player, the Nexus Q, is being manufactured in the United States, one of several signs that the trend of producing consumer electronic goods outside this country may be reversing, reports John Markoff in Thursday’s New York Times. Some American companies are again making products in the United States. While many of those companies have been small, like ET Water Systems, there have also been some highly visible moves by America’s largest consumer and industrial manufacturers. General Electric and Caterpillar, for example, have moved assembly operations back to the United States in the last year. Read the full story at The New York Times.