Robotic Process Systems Inc., of Liberty Lake, has filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, the second time in just under six years that the manufacturer of specialty equipment for the electronics industry has sought

The Inland Northwest Technology Education Center, or Intec, says it is close to announcing a new strategy for helping the Spokane area bolster high-tech employment by focusing more attention on what it calls energy technologies.Randy Long, a

Whitworth College says it hopes to start work this fall on a $6.5 million academic building on its North Spokane campus, its first new academic building since 1956.Whitworth has raised $3.2 million in donations so far for the new building, which

Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., of Spokane, says it reached an important corporate threshold late last month when it listed one of its stock offerings for the first time on a prominent national exchange.A $150 million offering of Series

You might call it a marriageand a businessmade in cyberheaven.Ramona and Marcus Lawson, of Spokane, met on the Internet, through a match-making service called love@aol, and enjoy cuddling up at home to watch TechTV, a 24-hour cable and to be

While many of Spokanes largest employers have been slashing jobs over the last year, the Liberty Lake operation of Software Spectrum Inc. has been expanding its work force.The Garland, Texas-based software seller and technical-service provider

Those involved in creating the states first tax-increment financing districton West Plains land that will be home to a new technology parksay theres quite a learning curve to interpreting and using the new law, which made a long-sought tool

Dr. Christopher T. Bajzer, schooled in avant-garde interventional cardiology, arrived in Spokane from Ohio in the summer of 1999. Practicing at Spokane Cardiology PSC, he made an immediate impact, helping the practice land two clinical-research a a

After years of battling dwindling precious-metals prices, dimming U.S. exploration prospects, and a decline in its own share price, Coeur dAlene Mines Corp. might have unearthed richer diggings.The company says that two mineral deposits in the

Coldwater Creek Inc., the big Sandpoint-based retailer, has adopted two new merchandising strategies designed to blunt the impact that the weather can have on its sales.Under one strategy, called buy now, wear now, Coldwater Creek is of and