China Airlines will cut flights Seattle Times | Pacific Northwest | Aviation | Taiwanese carrier China Airlines will drop its nonstop service between Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Taipei as part of a move to cut 100 passenger flights per month mainly between the United States and Asia due to soaring fuel costs. | Flights will end aft...
Oregon Convention Center is green for green's sake Business Journal > Coca-Cola's green efforts reach worldwide [Atlanta] Some manufacturers see big payoffs from recycling [Nashville] Recycling, green practices save big money for manufacturing firms like IP, Buckeye [Memphis] A critical summer of decision [Portland] Convention center hotel price tag: $247.5M [Portla...
Ontario to join carbon trading pact Canada Dot Com | Ontario will join the Western Climate Initiative, a planned U.S.-based regional carbon credit trading pact, the province's premier, Dalton McGuinty, said Friday. | Ontario is the fourth province, after British Columbia, Manitoba and Quebec, to sign...
Business filings increase sharply Richmond Times Dispatch | WASHINGTON -- U.S. business bankruptcies saw their sharpest quarterly rise in two years, jumping 17 percent in the second quarter of 2008, according to an analysis by McClatchy Newspapers. | Commercial filings for the first half of 2008 are up 45 p...
Business bankruptcy filings leap in 2008 The Charlotte Observer The number of firms seeking protection rose by 45 percent in the first half of the year. | By Tony Pugh | McClatchy Newspapers | WASHINGTON -- | Driven by a sour economy and skittish consumers, U.S. business bankruptcies saw their sharpest quarterly ...
Small-business failures spur jump in bankruptcies The Providence Journal | WASHINGTON - Driven by a sour economy and skittish consumers, U.S. business bankruptcies jumped 17 percent in the second quarter of this year, the sharpest quarterly rise in two years, according to an analysis by McClatchy Newspapers. | Commercial ...
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Naturally Advanced Technologies lands on Toronto Stock Exchange Business Journal > Triangle lands HQ of Canadian company with 4,700 employees [Raleigh/Durham] World Heart off Toronto exchange [East Bay] Nasdaq and Toronto Stock Exchange warn World Heart [San Fr...
Drivers protecting tanks from gas thieves Penn Live | By HELEN JUNG | Newhouse News Service | These days "fill 'er up" is increasingly followed by "lock 'er down." | With gasoline prices soaring, motorists are snatching up locking g...
Poor real estate decisions, not bad coffee, hurt Starbucks International Herald Tribune | Starbucks wants to get back to its roots to help turn around its ailing fortunes. It brought back the pioneering chief executive Howard Schultz to run the coffee chain day to day...
Starbucks to close 17 stores around St. Louis Business Journal > Southern California hit hard with Starbucks closings [Los Angeles] Starbucks announces full list of store closings; six in Oregon [Portland] Starbucks closest to original Peet's store will close [San Francisco] | In its latest wave of closures, Sta...
Pacific West Bank reports lower earnings Business Journal > Pacific West Bank earns less in Q1 [Portland] Smaller banks make gains on their larger competitors [Portland] New bank proposals rain down in droves [Portland] | Pacific West Bank reported lower earnings for the second quarter of 2008. | For the qu...
Cascade Micro warns of setbacks during chip slowdown Business Journal > Cascade Microtech expands [Portland] Cascade Micro annual profit down on higher sales [Portland] Cascade Microtech names new CEO [Portland] ESI to repurchase $20 million of shares [Portland] OmniGuide focuses on $25M in fifth funding round [Mass Hi...
Drivers protecting tanks from gas thieves Penn Live | By HELEN JUNG | Newhouse News Service | These days "fill 'er up" is increasingly followed by "lock 'er down." | With gasoline prices soaring, motorists are snatching up locking gas caps to keep thieves out of their tanks. But the clamor for locking lids is triggering shortages. | "We're out," said Mike Halvorson, Internet manager of Baxter Auto P...
