Oregon Business

"We’re still learning all of the details, but it’s very humbling to be part of a company that cares this much about its employees."

Oregon voters approved two special tax measures Tuesday designed to close a $733 million state budget gap.

Because Portlanders are happy with their city, why change?

I’ve been asking tech industry execs about the issue for the past six months and have heard a consistent refrain: Whatever their opinions about these individual measures, they’d like to see broad reform in Oregon’s fiscal policy, taxes and education system.

"We’re doing a lot more hiring! In just the last month, we have added 11 new Jivers with 10 more starting in the next two weeks."

Web-based risk-management software for companies that operate truck fleets.

The company, the brainchild of Eugene resident Ocean Yuan, is moving so fast that it caught state economic development officials — and potential competitor SolarWorld — by surprise.

"Our city is better than your city."

The hardware cluster is just one piece of Apple’s Oregon connection.

Now the Bend area’s unemployment rate, at almost 16 percent, is one of the highest of any metropolitan area in the nation. “For sale” signs dot desert-toned, unfinished subdivisions. Luxury furniture stores downtown are going out of business. San Francisco chefs have fled.