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Stocks mostly rise as investors snap up financials
Todd Bishop on Microsoft
Extending and enhancing our regular coverage.
· Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates ad set in a shoe store?
· What will Google's new browser mean for IE?
John Cook's Venture Blog
Startups, VC and life in the emerging tech community.
· Seinfeld and Gates ad set in a shoe store?
· Republican venture capitalists support Obama
James Wallace on Aerospace
All about companies aiming for the sky.
· Bulletin: Boeing machinists to strike
· UPDATED: Boeing/IAM meeting in Fla.
Andrea on Amazon
Andrea James on Amazon.com and other online retail
· Buy a $200 wonder laptop, give one to a child
· Amazon employment grew 80 percent in 3 years
The Life Sciences Blog
Joe Tartakoff on the region's biotechnology and life sciences industry
· Stories to watch: ZGEN and SGEN
· Round-up: Dendreon, SonoSite
Seattle Real Estate News
Aubrey Cohen with the latest on the housing market in Seattle
· Bobcats pounce on foreclosed home
· Nice home, eh?
Consumer Smarts
By P-I Consumer Affairs Reporter Phuong Cat Le
· Court says AT&T can't force arbitration
· To reach a live person, press ...
Reader Blog: Career Chic
Advice for women in the workplace by Lisa Quast
· How to Redesign Yourself to Improve Relationships and Business Profitability
· How to Improve Job Security
Reader Blog: Jobless in Seattle
Navigating unemployement and the job hunt
· Interviewing- Responsibilities and Expectations
· Confessions of an Interview Tease
Reader Blog: Media Money Monkey
Tips on personal finance from Tom Layson
· Breathless in Seattle
· Ever the optimist
Reader Blog: The Biz Bite
Advice to boost your business
· Make marketing work for you and your cause
· Succeeding in business: sing your own song
Reader Blog: In Good Company
Author Jennifer Heigle offers help for Small Business
· Where Has All The Customer Service Gone?
· Hiring Summer Employees For Your Small Business
Reader Blog: Start Her Up
Advice and resources for the woman entrepreneur
· RADIO SILENCE
· If You Want It Done Right – Or At All
Bill Virgin
· Boeing-union drama plays to larger audience
· Peering ahead at oil, gas prices
Inside Entrepreneurship
· Six reasons to consider investors
· Evaluate online angel networks for funding
Workplace Coach
· To avoid early exits, be clear from the get-go
· How to avoid 10 common hiring mistakes
- Contract talks fail; machinists strike Boeing Co.
- Government may soon back troubled mortgage giants
- Report: Nomura considering stake in Lehman
- Silver State Bank in Nevada is shut
- Talk of financial crisis sparks unease in S. Korea
- As unemployment spikes, companies weigh options
More headlines
- Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old
- Aruba Networks declines after analyst downgrade
- Report: Samsung working to acquire SanDisk
- Nokia warns 3Q market share will fall; shares dive
- Tech firms fare better than most in jobs slump
- Microsoft deploying in-store customer-service reps
More headlines
VC Notebook
Venture capital news, local vc firms, upcoming IPOs, funding & layoffs.
Keep tabs on which local companies are cutting staff
· Tech layoffs
· Non-tech layoffs
The strike is on at Boeing
Although its order books are full of planes to build for eager customers around the world, The Boeing Co. was shutting down its jetliner production in the Puget Sound area as its biggest union hit the picket lines early Saturday morning.
Workers at Todd Pacific nix contract a second time
The work force at Seattle's largest private shipyard, Todd Pacific, voted down a new contract for the second time since its old contract expired July 31. Negotiations are to resume Monday.
Google reigns as the world's most powerful 10-year-old
Success was hardly assured for two Stanford University graduate students and their nascent search engine, operated from a couple of cramped dorm rooms and burdened with a goofy name. But their brainchild, Google, incorporated 10 years ago, has blossomed into one of the world's most valuable businesses.
Of Mutual Interest: U.S. and world markets both still viable
While Wall Street is still debating which economies abroad might join the U.S. in a slowdown, investors shouldn't wait for an answer.
Surviving a foreclosure cushioned by planning
These days, record-breaking foreclosure statistics are coming out with numbing frequency. But what happens to the thousands of families after their personal financial disaster is added to the mounting national count?
State mortgage woes grow worse
Washington mortgage delinquencies and foreclosure rates as a whole rose faster than those of the U.S. last quarter but remained far below the national rates, according to a new report.
Freddie, Fannie bailout nears
WASHINGTON -- Senior officials from the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve on Friday informed top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance giants, that the government was preparing to seize the two companies and place them in a conservatorship, officials and company executives briefed on the discussions said.
Unemployment rate passes 6% with no relief in sight
WASHINGTON -- The nation's unemployment rate bolted above the psychologically important 6 percent level last month for the first time in five years -- and it's likely to go even higher in the months ahead, possibly throwing the economy into a tailspin as Americans pick a new president.
Which candidate feels pain of U.S. economy?
MUCH OF the mudslinging this presidential year centers on which candidate best understands the financial issues of the working class.
Small Retail: They've got your hammer
There is no place in Seattle like Hardwick's, a University District hardware store offering what must be the largest selection of hammers under one roof, plus much (much) more.
Business Briefing
General Electric informed it may be fined by SEC ... Bank of America joins group buying back risky securities ... also, shipping news.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2008
- Boeing and Machinists negotiating at Disney resort
- Microsoft says chances of buying Yahoo 'negligible'
- Microsoft seeks to revive Windows with Seinfeld
- Boeing-union drama plays to larger audience
- Despite weak economy, Amazon still hiring
- Wade Cook headed to prison year and a half after being convicted
- Bellevue's Captaris sold to Canadian company
- U.K. emergency landing leads to new 777 rules
- Comcast Corp. fights FCC
- Dismal news scuttles market
- Slow August sales signal more vulnerability in retail
- Inside Entrepreneurship: Six reasons to consider investors
- Business Briefing
- Technology Briefing
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2008
- Contract rejected, but no strike at Boeing for now
- Air Force presses for new tankers
- Airlines' on-time performance improves
- Costco among the few bright spots in retail
- No end in sight to sluggish economy
- Peering ahead at oil, gas prices
- Business Briefing
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2008
- Starbucks slims down breakfast choices to five
- Decision day for Boeing Machinists
- Changes coming to docks
- Steve & Barry's to close Olympia store
- Boeing sued by government over price of bomber decoy system
- Google browser aided by Microsoft antitrust limits
- Google browser expands software uses
- EBay to launch social-impact shopping site
- Retailers slash prices -- at a cost?
- Manufacturing shrinks, construction down
- As oil costs ease, some related prices don't
- Business Briefing
- Technology Briefing
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
- Office condos see growing interest in Seattle
- Gates Foundation shifts management with new CEO
- Gustav lets oil industry off lightly
- Love them or hate them, ads push our buttons
- Google working to win friends and ad dollars
- Microsoft cuts Xbox console prices in Japan
- Lunch costs worry parents as kids go back to school
- Shapes try to map economy's path
- Business Briefing
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