Regional Business News

A local businessman hopes to double his business making silicon chips and microprocessors. Steve Laflin of International Isotopes, http://www.intisoid.com/ an Idaho Falls company, makes radioisotopes for medical devices and clinical research. He recently signed with…

“We are as good as it gets. We have picked a niche we can be very good at.”

Cyan Worlds Inc. of Spokane had hoped that "Uru Live" would lure enough players willing to pay a monthly fee that it could afford to continuously update the game with new content.

CdA call center will grow to accommodate new client Center Partners will hire about 200 call center workers in Coeur d’Alene to provide customer service for an unnamed telecommunications company. Becky Kramer Staff writer http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=020504&ID=s1483417&cat=section.business…

Since building its first Oregon chip plant in Aloha in 1972, the state has gradually become Intel’s research hub. The company is the largest single industrial employer in Oregon

McCaffrey’s message is that strong ideas hatched at the local and regional levels can be successful, with care and "a lot of homework. By themselves, groups and businesses couldn’t afford the time and money needed to puncture the Byzantine wall of Washington politics. But together, this kind of group can offer a common set of solutions and get some results," McCaffrey said.

"I got tired of waiting for the manufacturers to come out with something better," Lowe said, "so I just started thinking of a better way to do it."

"It’s similar to looking at the single star and thinking of Texas and the pine tree and thinking of Vermont. It is that significant to us as an identification." (What is the Montana identification? – Russ)

When serial entrepreneur Dennis Wilkinson founded Omnitrac http://www.omnitrac.com/ a decade ago, he wasn’t sure what to expect from his little northeastern Oregon creation. He had no idea that in relatively short order Omnitrac would become…

Four years from now, Micron Technology will be more than just a computer memory company.