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May, OutFront Recent Company Acquisitions

Demolition company becomes a national player.

May, OutFront Spinning Sawdust into Oil

Will cars someday run on cardboard? How about sawdust? Weyerhaeuser and Chevron have formed a joint...

May, OutFront Briefcase

BOTHELL -- Nastech Pharmaceuticals' plans to deliver drugs via nasal sprays could be snuffed out....

May, OutFront Bridging -- -- -- -- the Divide

Rural communities around the state often balk at supporting Seattle-centric transportation...

May, OutFront WSU Gets Into the Human Race

A new biotechnology company being launched out of Accelerator Corp., a business incubator in...

May, OutFront Study of Gray Matter broadens

The nonprofit Allen Institute for Brain Science has launched a new major project to accelerate...

May, OutFront You're fired... Not!

Thinking you can put a fire under your employees by threatening to can 'em? Can layoffs create a...

May, OutFront Executive Appointments

Alex Alben is named vice president of corporate strategy and Fred Tietze is named vice president of...

May, OutFront Going Dutch in Seattle

Seattle developer Bruce Blume, founder, chairman and CEO of The Blume Co., is spearheading a...

May, OutFront Window Shopping

What $500,000 will get you around the state

May, OutFront Increasing Profits by giving stuff away

The best way to make money on the Internet may be to give it away, a leading thinker on the online...

Finance

Dollars and Sense

It's not just the super-rich who could use a personal wealth manager


I'm Too Sexy for an IPO

Why Washington entrepreneurs aren't interested in the public markets


Regional Banks Hold the Line

The housing market has dried up. Subprime mortgages? Evaporated... But regional banks hold the line


Tapping the Brakes

As the economy slows, beware of the secondary impact of a weakening housing sector



Launch Sell (Repeat)

When building a business is a serial thrill


Construction Rebounds

Keep a close eye on construction. Growth in the industry has slowed - from a 9 percent annual pace in October 2006 to just under 6 percent in February 2007. Construction permits fell from a 20 percent drop to nearly a 50 percent...



Mergers & Aquisitions

Recent aquisitions of and by Washington companies


The Good Ride Continues in 2007

Pumped by Boeing and population growth, Puget Sound looks muscular compared to the nation


Top 25 Washington Banks

Ranked by tangible assests (in $ millions).


Banking on Credit Unions

In search of growth, credit unions take on big banks


Banking on Immigrants

Banks see high returns from the ?unbanked?


Oil Prices Hit The Pavement

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...


Executive Wages

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...


Top 100 Public Companies in Washington

It isn't easy being public. Having to open all your windows and doors to let the political wind of the day - Sarbanes compliance, stockholders' approval, analysts and the Securities and Exchange Commission - blow through. And yet...


CubCrafters Soars, Adds Jobs

YAKIMA - When the Federal Aviation Administration recently created the new Light Sport Airplane category, CubCrafters Inc. was ready to fly at the opportunity. Its light sport airplane, the CubCrafters Sport Cub, received a huge...


Top Funding So Far

In one of the largest venture capital deals so far this year, Seattle's VLST Corp. has raised $55 million in a Series B financing that will be used to develop drugs. VLST, heretofore financed by Accelerator Corp., which supports...


FYI

WASHINGTON 2ND LARGEST CYBERSTATE. The American Electronics Association (AEA), a trade association representing all segments of the high-tech industry, says Washington is second only to California in its number of software...


Average Wage Rises

OLYMPIA - We're all a little richer. At least according to the State.

The average annual wage in Washington was up by $1,347, or 3.5 percent last year, according to the Employment Security Department (ESD). On average,...


Vacationless in the USA

BELLEVUE - You might expect it of an online travel agency, but Expedia.com has declared U.S. citizens victims of "Vacation Deprivation."

Compared to employed workers in Canada, Great Britain, Germany, France and Australia, U.S....


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