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DigiDeal creates new gaming table for casinos

Fully automated system scheduled to be rolled out during first quarter of '13

October 11, 2012

DigiDeal Corp., the Spokane-based electronic multiplayer game table developer, unveiled a new electronic gaming table and automated virtual attendant system to be paired with its gaming table last month at the Global Gaming Expo, in Las new table a

HollisterStier expands its testing unit in East Spokane

Allergy product maker's new analytical services launched here, Montreal

October 11, 2012

Jessica Valencia

Jubilant HollisterStier Contract & Manufacturing Services, the Spokane-based sterile allergy product maker, says it has launched an analytical services unit that's geared toward providing additional testing capabilities at its facilities located in

Hart Capital stock index increases 14 percent in third quarter

Hart Capital says measure similar to S&P shows hike for public companies here

October 11, 2012

Treva Lind

Hart Capital Management Inc., a Spokane-based investment firm, says its Inland Northwest Index of publicly traded companies in the Inland Northwest rose 14.3 percent for the third quarter, under an index methodology similar to that of the Standard

Spokane-area retirement homes see occupancy rise

Occupancy rates climbing in part due to improving housing market, some say

October 11, 2012

Linn Parish

Some Spokane-area retirement center operators say occupancies are on the rise and that moving activity within their centers, such as from independent-living to assisted-living units, also has picked up this year. While some describe the activity

Clearwater Paper won't split into two divisions

Company says group's call to divide business divisions isn't economically feasible

October 11, 2012

Treva Lind

Clearwater Paper Corp., the Spokane-based maker of tissue and paperboard products, says it isn't economically feasible to split into two separate entities, as suggested recently by a large shareholder group. After completing an analysis that at

Businesses turn partly 'cloudy'

Some move toward off-site computer services, but do so selectively

October 11, 2012

Jessica Valencia

Businesses here have started tapping into "cloud" computing services over the past several years, but each is using the cloud differently, depending on the size and structure of the business, some technology industry experts here say. Also, some to

Air cargo volume climbs at Spokane airport

Big increase attributed to 'through traffic' from UPS

October 11, 2012

Mike McLean

The amount of cargo going in and out of Spokane International Airport has risen dramatically so far this year, but most of that increase is just passing through, say representatives of the airport and a freight handler.Spokane International and

In the News

October 11, 2012

Oct. 9 / Mayor declares city conditions stableSpokane Mayor David Condon, in an annual status report, described the city's financial condition as stable, and formally turned over his 2013 budget proposal to the City Council. The City Council now

Calendar

October 11, 2012

Meetings & EventsGreater Spokane Incorporated will hold Good Morning Greater Spokane on Friday, Oct. 12, from 7 to 9 a.m., at the Red Lion Hotel at the Park, 303 W. North River Drive. U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and challenger Rich Cowan a

Some breast cancers share traits with ovarian tumors

Same drugs possibly could be used to treat both types of growths, data suggest

September 27, 2012

News Wise

What researchers are touting as the most comprehensive analysis yet of breast cancer shows that one of the most deadly subtypes is genetically more similar to ovarian tumors than to other breast cancers.The findings, published online this month