Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB.

• Position: Triangle

Travelers like Raleigh-Durham International's cheap fares. But RDU is nowhere as big as Atlanta's airport--one reason the Triangle will lose 425 jobs, probably by mid-2010. Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, a joint venture of Japanese electronics giant Sony and Swedish mobile-phone maker Ericsson, is moving its North American headquarters from Research Triangle Park and making the Georgia capital, where it employs...