Slideshow: Sun sets on Solyndra
August 31, 2011
Just two years ago Solyndra LLC was the toast of the solar industry – a new 600,000 square foot manufacturing facility, a visit by President Barrack Obama, a planned $300 million IPO. But troubling signs quickly began to show as the company failed to keep up with Chinese solar firms, and its fall was swift. Click the photo gallery at right for a slideshow charting Solyndra’s journey from clean tech darling to bankruptcy.
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Report: Another iPhone prototype lost in bar
August 31, 2011
A little more than a year after an iPhone prototype was lost in a restaurant and showed up on the Web, another was reportedly mislaid in a San Francisco bar last month and may have been sold on Craigslist for $200. The finder apparently didn’t realize what they had and no photos have surfaced. CNET quoted unnamed sources who said that Apple called San Francisco police frantically asking for their help in recovering an iPhone prototype lost at Cava 22 in the Mission. It said Apple electronically traced the phone to a single-family home in Bernal Heights neighborhood…
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Seattle moves up on Nielsen TV market list
August 31, 2011
Despite a drop in TV homes, Seattle passed Phoenix to become the nation’s 12th-largest TV market, according to Nielsen. In other changes at the top of the list, Washington, D.C., passed Atlanta to become the eighth-largest market. Seattle now has 1,811,420TV homes, down from 1,874,750 last year. New York remains the top TV market and Glendive, Mont., with only 4,180 TV homes, is last, at No.
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Intel’s Otellini, Chu talk engineering internships at PSU
August 31, 2011
Stumping for more engineers, Intel CEO Paul Otellini and U.S. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu appeared together at Portland State University Wednesday to announce that 45 companies have agreed to double the engineering internships they will offer to students next summer. Otellini, who co-chairs President Barack Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, emphasized the importance of engineering education for the U.S. economy. “This couldn’t come at a better time,” Otellini said.”Our need for engineers is three times the current supply..
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Slideshow: Milt Priggee’s cartoons from August
August 31, 2011
August was a busy month around the Puget Sound region — and the drawings from our editorial cartoonist, Milt Priggee, show just how crazy it got. From a slight rebound in home values, things only seemed to get more bleak as the month wore on. Here are the highlights, with links to the articles. Click here to see the slideshow
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Boeing, Machinists, wield PAC dollars in NLRB fight
August 31, 2011
Boeing and the Machinists union are fighting over alleged unfair labor practices not only through the National Labor Relations Board, but with their checkbooks. This is the conclusion of an Aug. 29 piece published in the Charleston Regional Business Journal, profiling political action committee donations from both company and union, and who is receiving them. The fight is over whether or not Boeing (NYSE: BA) “retaliated” against the union, and thus broke federal labor law, when the company decided to build a second 787 assembly line in North Charleston, S…
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Boeing 737 MAX to beat Airbus A320neo in costs
August 31, 2011
Boeing’s re-engined 737 MAX will edge ahead of the competing A320neo in cost per hour by about 2 percent, concludes aerospace analyst Addison Schonland. In his Air Insights blog, Schonland analyses initial data from Boeing, Airbus and engine makers, and concludes while the re-engined Airbus A320neo will be a substantial improvement from the original A320, it still won’t be more efficient than the 737 MAX. Schonland expects the 737 MAX will offer a 7 percent better fuel burn over the 737NG, while the A320neo fuel burn will drop by 10 percent compared to the current A320…
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Conscious Commuter launches kickstarter campaign
August 31, 2011
Portland startup and Cleantech Open finalist Conscious Commuter has launched a campaign on Kickstarter.com to crowdsource the funding and final design of its electric-powered bicycle. Started by Bob Vander Woude and Gabriel Wartofsky, Conscious Commuter aims to pry more people out of their cars by building bikes with an electric motor assist and an easy-fold design for public transit users. Read the complete story at Sustainable Business Oregon.
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Justice Department Files Suit to Block AT&T, T-Mobile Merger
August 31, 2011
The Justice Department today filed suit to block the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile USA, alleging that the $39 billion transaction would substantially lessen competition for mobile wireless telecommunications services across the U.S. It’s a bold move for DOJ’s Antitrust Division, which has been criticized in recent years for failing to stop other high-profile unions.
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Real Estate Roundup Database: 8-31-2011
August 31, 2011
There are new entries in the Portland Business Journal’s online compilation of real estate transactions involving office, industrial retail and other income-producing property in the metro area. View new entries and submit transactions here.
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