Regional Business News

These strategies will be focused on increasing entrepreneurship and technical assistance, creating new and strengthening existing outreach and training, and raising awareness in underserved communities of SBA programs and services.

A total of $12 million in grant money is now available to help rural health-care providers establish "meaningful use" of electronic health record (EHR) systems.

You’d never know it, but one of the brains behind one of Al Gore’s favorite alternative fuel companies is right here in Seattle, and will be making a rare public appearance at our next big event May 19.

Ballmer wrote that Microsoft is making the changes to stay competitive in the job market.

Read more: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/04/22/1636011/microsoft-investing-in-employees.html#ixzz1KG8rXF4P

A report Tuesday by a Montana-based research group said the economic impact of the fossil fuels industry comes from tax revenues, not energy-related jobs for workers who can be transient, and recommended maximizing those revenues by raising rates.

"Our strategy over the last few years has been to diversify as much as possible into the industrial, commercial markets, and take items out of residential," Ray said. "These high-value niche markets have allowed us to reinvent ourselves."

http://www.bizznesscard.com, a one-of-a-kind online marketing solution for small businesses, launches March 31, 2011, in 11 states including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.

As labor and shipping costs in Asia increase, small stateside apparel makers are able to flaunt their domestic addresses

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We are creating an environment of feedback loops so the consumer can talk with us and tell us what it is they would like to see, or not want to see."