The director of the Oregon Business Development Department, Tim McCabe, and officials from Ferrotec, a world leader in the manufacturing of Single Crystal Si Growing System and Quartz Crucible, today announced the planned opening of the company’s new solar crucible manufacturing plant in a suburb of Portland, Oregon.
The Ferrotec Portland area plant will open in [...]
Got a bright idea for making Oregon, Washington or California greener? Could you use a little green to help make your project a reality? Beginning March 8, 2010, Pacific Power will accept applications for community-based renewable energy project funding from its Blue Sky renewable energy program.
For 10 years now, Pacific Power’s participating Blue Sky customers [...]
The Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN) today announced six Launch Stage companies were chosen as finalists to present at OEN’s Angel Oregon 2010, to be held at The Nines in Portland on March 5, 2010. The eight Seed Stage companies were selected and announced earlier in February.
Finalists for OEN’s Angel Oregon were chosen from nearly 50 [...]
Business Oregon Director Tim McCabe today announced the appointment of two new members to the Oregon Business Development Commission.
“I am very excited about the addition of Chandra Brown, of Oregon Iron Works, and Gregory Semler, of Pivotal Investments, to the Oregon Business Development Commission,” McCabe said. “These two business leaders will bring expertise and vision [...]
The Oregonian newspaper announced today that it had laid off 37 employees and for the first time, many in the newsroom. Prior layoffs have spared the newsroom and at most newspapers have focused on functions in advertising, accounting and part-time employees. The layoffs should not come as a surprise to anyone, however. In August of [...]
From Official Intel Press Release:
Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini today announced a $3.5 billion initiative to support investment in U.S.-based growth-oriented industries and detailed a commitment to significantly increase jobs available this year for recent college graduates.
Otellini announced these initiatives in a speech titled “Rebuilding the Foundations of American Growth,” delivered at The Brookings [...]
