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Final Analysis: Seattle is home of 'The Cloud'
OK, so the joke about Seattle as the ideal home of “the cloud” is already a cliché. Excuse me for being late to the weather forecast. But when California-based Google announced in March that it planned to add about a...
Commentary: Next time you're shopping, look for a 'Made in the U.S.A.' label
Unemployment is one of the most persistent problems facing our nation. Buying products made in this country is the most direct way you can help create jobs for unemployed members of our extended American family. The United...
CEO Adviser: Sexism in the boardroom
In greater Seattle today, fewer than 10 percent of corporate board members are women. While blue-chip champions like Nordstrom and Starbucks have a higher-than-average percentage of women on their boards, tech companies like...
Virgin on Business: Beware the new conglomerate
Used to be that you could define what a company did, what its function in business life was, in a sentence—or less. Boeing builds things that fly. Nordstrom sells things you wear. Microsoft writes the invisible things that...
Editor's Note: Making the grade
Spokane-based Itron has a tradition of hiring CEOs steeped in manufacturing technology. It’s no wonder. The company, which had more than $2 billion in revenues last year, has 30 manufacturing facilities around the world,...