On the hunt for a factory to manufacture her “smartwatch for Grandma,” Jean Anne Booth headed to China recently to check out several facilities. “If you’re going to build that level of technology, China is really the place to go for cost effectiveness and capability for what it is we’re doing,” said Booth, the CEO of four-employee UnaliWear, a two-year-old firm in Austin, Texas.

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