Why do tech stocks build us up just to let us down?Technology's track record is one of dramatic peaks and valleys for its investors. However, its most recent run-up seems to have more fundamentals behind it than many of the past periods of for a

April 5 / ReliOn garners more funding ReliOn Inc., the Spokane-based maker of backup power systems that use hydrogen fuel-cell technology, announced that it has secured an additional $6 million in equity financing through current It it

Meetings & Events Greater Spokane Incorporated will hold a breakfast meeting, Good Morning Greater Spokane, on Friday, April 8, from 7:15 to 9 a.m., at The Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln. Linda Davis, of MOR Manufacturing Corp., of on

A three-day innovation boot camp designed to help businesses create, communicate, and commercialize profitable ideas is scheduled for April 4-6 in Spokane.The intensive program, called the Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute, will be by

Two health care conferences with the joint title Retrofitting For Reform are scheduled to convene in Spokane next week. A total of about 300 participants from Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and Alaska are expected to attend the Northwest will

Sandpoint-based Intermountain Community Bancorp, which operates Panhandle State Bank and Intermountain Community Bank, posted a full-year 2010 net loss of $33.5 million, or $3.99 per common share, compared with a net loss of $23.6 million, or $2.82

Coeur d'Alene-based Idaho Independent Bank has reported a net loss of $5.7 million, or 89 cents a diluted share, for 2010, down from a loss of $6.7 million, or $1.06 per diluted share, in 2009. The 2010 loss reflects the posting of a $3.1 tax a

Wheatland Bank, of Spokane, says it posted net income of just over $1.1 million last year, up about $92,000 from 2009, and had strong increases in deposits and assets, but a decline in loans, similar to what many other banks here M. Horton, CEO, of