Former PSBJ reporter Kirsten Grind plans Seattle talk on her book about WaMu collapse
May 17, 2012
Journalist Kirsten Grind will appear at Town Hall Seattle on June 26 to talk about her new book, “The Lost Bank,” which tells the story of the collapse of Seattle’s Washington Mutual. Her book promises to be a must-read for many in the greater Seattle area and beyond who have followed her coverage of WaMu’s downfall, including its seizure by bank regulators and ultimate sale to JPMorgan Chase & Co. in 2008. In her book, Grind, a former reporter at the Puget Sound Business Journal, chronicles…
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As Mariners struggle to win, attendance takes a hit
May 17, 2012
The Seattle Mariners will return home from a grueling road trip on Monday, hoping to improve their record on the field and in the stands. The Mariners are a quarter of the way into the Major League Baseball season, and the team is averaging an attendance of 20,286 per game as of Thursday. That ranks them 27th in the 30-team league, ahead of the Cleveland Indians, Oakland Athletics and the Chicago White Sox. Last season the team averaged 27,873 fans per game, placing them 23rd in the league overall….
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Portland business leaders happy with mayoral options
May 17, 2012
Portland’s business community has delivered a mostly positive verdict in the mayor’s race following Tuesday’s election. After Portland voters winnowed down the number of 23 candidates — really, they narrowed the field of three front-runners to two, knocking Eileen Brady out of the running — some prominent business leaders are saying that either of the general election combatants Charlie Hales and Jefferson Smith could be a positive force for the business community. They warned, though,…
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Credit card and mortgage debt down, but so are scores
May 17, 2012
While a typical American’s credit card and mortgage debt have both fallen since last year, the average credit score nevertheless fell by one point between March and April. So says Credit Karma, a San Francisco company that tracks such things. The average American consumer had about $5,650 in credit card debt in April, down 13 percent from a year earlier. And average mortgage debt was down 3 percent year-over-year at $166,631
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Timbers, Jeld-Wen Field featured in new Adidas ad
May 17, 2012
The Portland Timbers, star forward Darlington Nagbe, and the Timbers Army feature prominently in a new 30-second TV ad making its debut this weekend from Adidas’ U.S. soccer division. Portland-based Adidas America is pushing its micoach SPEED_CELL technology, which uses a chip embedded into the soccer boot to capture the player’s 360-degree movements and document various performance metrics. The chips store up to seven hours of data and can wirelessly sync to smartphones and be shared through…
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Oregon regional economies make gains
May 17, 2012
Eugene-Springfield and Central Oregon have joined the Portland metro area in nearing their average economic growth rates, according to the University of Oregon Regional Economic Indexes. The regional indexes measure economic growth using variables including new housing permits, home sales, sector employment data, the unemployment rate, and airport passenger data. Zero is used to indicate the average growth rate posted between 1998 and 2011. In Portland, the average economic growth rate for the..
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Seattle ranks No. 1 in tech sector job growth
May 17, 2012
The Seattle area has seen the most growth in technology jobs in the country — significantly more than Silicon Valley. That’s according to a Forbes/Praxis Strategy Group study that measured employment growth in high-tech industry sectors such as software engineering, data processing and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The study found that, while the Silicon Valley employs fewer people in the high-tech sector than it did in 2000, the Seattle area has seen a 43 percent…
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Precision Castparts surpasses $7B in annual sales
May 17, 2012
Precision Castparts Corp. on Thursday said it gained ground in new markets as it boosted fourth-quarter and full-year sales by 16 percent. The Portland-based manufacturer of key metal components for commercial aircraft and energy markets (NYSE: PCP) reported earnings of $336.1 million, or $2.30 per share, on nearly $2 billion in sales for the final quarter of fiscal 2012. That was a sizable improvement over the prior year when it had earnings of $271 million, or $1.87 per share, on $1.7 billion…
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Pearl Jam partners with nonprofit Forterra, 12 Seattle businesses to cut carbon impact
May 17, 2012
Seattle-based rock band Pearl Jam is partnering with environmental nonprofit Forterra to recruit businesses to a new program that calculates carbon output, and then works to minimize it and mitigate it through planting trees that absorb carbon. “Twenty years ago recycling wasn’t something that we (as Americans) did – It just wasn’t,” Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard said. “We’d throw everything in the landfill. And in Seattle and a lot of different regions now, that’s changed
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Intel launches digital magazine
May 17, 2012
Intel Corp. on Wednesday launched Intel iQ, a digital magazine in which the content is curated by the company’s thousands of employees. As Ad Age reports, iQ aims to promote Intel’s brand to a younger audience.
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