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Microsoft, Nintendo and a specialty college make Washington a capital for video games
A "clustering of talent" is driving Puget Sound to the top of the U.S. video-game development industry, generating nearly $5 billion in revenues and more than 15,000 jobs, and elevating the average salary of a local game...
While China is hot, Microsoft makes a lot more money in Japan. Over half of Microsoft's Asian revenues come from Japan. Maybe that's why the company is putting a renewed focus on the country, plowing money into developing markets...
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush was in Seattle Thursday (Sept 27) to receive the 2007 Columbia Award from the Washington Policy Center. Bush also gave the keynote speech before the Seattle-based think tank's annual dinner, which...
·Aegis Living, Redmond, promotes Jerry Meyer from chief operating officer to president.
·Lindal Cedar Homes, Seattle, names Michael Harris president and COO.
·QL2 Software, Seattle, appoints Glenn Hasen president...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has garnered three of R&D Magazine's prestigious R&D 100 Awards this year, including for a technology that allows researchers to test water for virtually every...
Prices for soft white wheat are at their highest levels in decades, the result of falling global production and increased demand for grain. That's got retailers east of the Cascades hoping for a surge in buying this fall, Greater...
The pressure is on for a dozen property owners in the way of the Port of Tacoma's plans for a new $300 million, 168-acre shipping container terminal on the Blair Waterway. The port recently filed condemnation actions against...
A Bush administration plan for combating illegal immigration will exacerbate a shortage of farm workers in the Northwest, agricultural groups are complaining.
"Right now, there's an immense level of fear – panic – in...
In hopes of boosting present-day tourism, Washington has updated a 1941 guidebook, A Guide to the Evergreen State, one of 48 produced by the Works Project Administration during the war years to employ writers, promote tourism and...
The Blue Mountain Mall in Walla Walla is headed for a massive renovation.
California-based Western Development Partners is expected to close a deal this month to buy the mall and spend $60 million redeveloping it.
The purchase...
Buoyed by increasing consumer interest in fresh local foods, farmers markets are sprouting across Washington state, doubling from 60 in 1998 to 120 in operation today, according to state and local agricultural...
Seattle's Foster Foundation has given $36.5 million to the University of Washington business school, which has changed its name to the Michael G. Foster School of Business.
Foster, who died in 2003, was a one-time UW student who...
A growing hunger in developing nations for Western-style cuisine is supersizing farm exports from the state of Washington.
The state's farmers and food processors sold more than $2.2 billion worth of fruit, vegetables, wheat and...
To Vidiator Technology Inc., text messaging is so five minutes ago. And it's testimony to the Bellevue software company's good business sense that it initially decided to carry that attitude to just about everywhere in the world...
Back in the late 1950s, dairy farmers in Grays Harbor would haul their malfunctioning pumps from their fields to Jim Vaughan's welding shop. The pumps typically would clog with twine and straw, and word soon spread that Jim could...
If you know about student loans, credit cards, microfinance or crop insurance, you might give Liu Mingkang a call. Liu is former chairman of the stateowned Bank of China. Now, as the man in charge of China's Banking...
In this epoch of globalization, when so much depends on successful trading strategies – and with so many cities, states and provinces marketing themselves as international business centers, just how secure is Washington's...
Ideal weather and an explosion of talent are leading to a good year for Washington wine.The state's grape harvest is in full swing this month, with a flurry of trucks gently transporting plastic bins filled to the brim with inky...
SEATTLE ? Port Townsend Paper is set to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy this fall, after a federal judge approved its reorganization plan in August. The plan cut $50 million in debt from the company's books, in return for...
Urban renewal is under way in South Lake Union, and it's not the highway-building, neighborhoodclearing kind you remember from the 1960s and '70s. Pay a visit to the Westlake/Terry Building, and you'll find the embodiment of New...
A strong global economy is turbochargingWashington state business. In the first half of 2007,Washington state?s exports climbed to more than $30 billion, a 20.3 percent increase over the first six months of 2006. That rapid pace...
FOR ARCHITECT and home builder Michelle Kaufmann, choosing to purchase a factory in the Tacoma suburb of Lakewood might not seem like an obvious decision; after all, her design firm ? and the office where all the marketing and...
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The Toothpick: Technology and Culture By Henry Petroski (Knopf, $27.95) This is at once a volume about cultural evolution and commercial acumen. Petroski (The Pencil) looks back at the prehistoric origins of the...
WELCOME TO THE PREMIER ISSUE of a completely revamped Washington CEO Magazine. We’ve upgraded the content and given our pages a facelift. And, if you go to washingtonceo.com you’ll find a dynamic website that provides...
BELLEVUE – Bellevue’s office rents for Class A office space have grown 11.6 percent over the past year, the highest growth in the nation, according to a study by Seattle-based real estate firm Grubb & Ellis Co....
SEATTLE – The Allen Institute for Brain Science has announced the completion of a genetic map of a mouse brain. The “Brain Atlas” identifies where and at what level each of approximately 21,000 genes are turned...
VANCOUVER – Electric Lightwave LLC, a communications network services provider, was sold to Portland-based Integra Telecom Inc. for $247 million and is moving most of its jobs to Portland. The combined company will employ...
SEATTLE – The exercise ball is gaining popularity in offices as a replacement for chairs because they strengthen abs and build posture. At Core Fitness Center, which recently took over space in the Washington Mutual Tower...
Universities and companies are much more alike than they are different
WALLA WALLA – Price increases of 50 percent for asphalt, a consequence of higher oil prices, have caused delays in municipal construction projects from Spokane to Walla Walla.
The cost of repaving Spokane County’s...
SEATTLE – The highest-paid executives in the United States saw a 58.8 percent increase in their average annual cash bonus and were paid 38.21 percent more total cash compensation, according to figures released by the...
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO – In its rookie year, the Spokane Shock became the first expansion team in arenafootball2 history to win the league’s ArenaCup championship by defeating the Green Bay Blizzard, 57-34 on August 26...
EVERETT – Boeing appears well positioned to maintain its lead over Airbus in total orders. As of Sept. 13, Boeing has received 377 firm orders for its 787 Dreamliner, with another 43 commitments from 32 customers. There are...
SEATTLE – InSpa’s CEO Colleen Stone can relax along with clients of her massage, manicure and facial business now that investors have pumped $5 million into the company with the goal of taking it beyond...
BOTHELL – Organic compost “tea” is gaining ground among garden enthusiasts who prefer natural fertilizers to chemical products. In Harmony Organic Based Landscape Services has been making the product for years...
SEATTLE – Orin Smith, the former CEO of Starbucks Corp., has contributed $4.5 million toward the construction of a $130 million business school at the University of Washington.
Smith, a former UW student and current member...
PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia. – Prince Rupert is a rural port town in northern British Columbia where moose sightings hardly raise an eyebrow. But a New Jersey- based port operator, anticipating continued container...
SPOKANE – Card rooms here are losing money and owners are blaming the statewide smoking ban and steady competition from tribal casinos.
In the last five years, four nontribal gaming establishments in Spokane County have...
OLYMPIA – Come Nov. 7, Washingtonians with estates of $2 million or more may see more of their wealth stay in the family if voters pass Initiative 920, repealing the state’s estate tax.
Dean Butler, an...
Former Safeco CEO Mike McGavick is being repackaged for the senate race
War in Iraq – Set a specific date for pull out?
Cantwell: Opposes specific date for a pullout, but did vote for a plan to start bringing troops home this year. McGavick: Opposes timetable for pullout of troops. It would...
Judging by its long-stagnant stock price, Microsoft appears to be a lumbering monopoly, mired in the doldrums. The company is worth less than half its 1999 peak. It lags behind flashy companies such as Google and Apple in hip,...
A weak education system is forcing businesses to import bright minds
Six years after the tech crash and the collapse of high flying ventures like HomeGrocer.com, a new generation of Web-based companies is taking off.ZILLOW.COMLocation: SeattleKey Innovation: Using publicly available information to...
Never mind astronomical prices, condos built above hotels are hot
Four Seasons hotel is coming back to Seattle, this time attached to condominiums in a modernist glass, stone and oxidized metal sculpture that promises to transform the skyline.The 21-story building at First and Union streets...
With the economy strong, Seattle hoteliers adding thousands of luxury rooms
When commercial real estate developer Walt Worthy and wife, Karen Worthy, purchased Spokane’s historic Davenport Hotel in 2000, their goal was to return the crumbling landmark to its original 1914 grandeur. The couple put...
Size matters in the convention industry. When planners scout locations to hold their meetings and events, one of their chief requirements is a large enough space to stage their exhibits and accommodate attendees.A new...
Seattle Foundation president Phyllis Campbell lives and leads by example
Washington's apple industry considers mechanizing to compete internationally
Sun Valley, Idaho, is the first, most famous and, in the minds of many skiers, still the best destination ski resort in America. What is not as well known about Sun Valley is that it has the oldest commercial helicopter skiing...
Justin Wylie is a bit like the tortoise in the fable - he moves slowly and methodically, but in the end wins the race, or, as with his new Walla Walla winery, wins the appreciation of wine enthusiasts everywhere.
Wylie is the...
