Luke Richey, the founder of Liberty Lake-based augmented-reality software firm Gravity Jack Inc., last month removed himself from the company's top spot in favor of Joshua Abel, someone he believes is a better fit to run the company than he is.
Richey
Spokane-based SRM Development LLC. says it's winding down construction of a huge expansion for Google, the big Mountain View, Calif.-based technology company, at that company's Kirkland, Wash., engineering campus.
'It's gone beautifully. It's
Office along Sullivan Road will serve as interim site
June 4, 2015
Comcast Corp. has leased a 50,000-square-foot portion of an office building in Spokane Valley that will serve as the interim site for a planned major new call center here.
The Philadelphia-based cable company announced last month that it had selected Spo
Startup here gains traction with event-photo device
June 4, 2015
Michael Fisk and Devon Lind are the co-founders of a startup company here called Photoboxx that bills itself as a social media hashtag printer. The idea behind the business is to generate free, instant images for attendees at large-scale business, social,
Purcell Systems Inc., the Spokane Valley-based company that makes temperature-controlled outdoor cabinets for the telecommunications industry, is diversifying and expects 40 percent growth over the next fiscal year, says Chris Craig, its general manager.
New business accelerator to consult, offer classes
May 21, 2015
Billing itself as business accelerator, Ignite Northwest recently formed in Spokane with the goal of helping young tech companies overcome early startup challenges.
Bill Savitz, CEO of the nonprofit organization, says accelerator businesses help companie
Liberty Lake concern looks to expand presence there
May 7, 2015
Gravity Jack Inc. owners and executives spent a week in China last month with business owners who are looking to see how augmented reality can be used for their businesses.
And one opportunity immediately emerged from the trip.
'A Chinese business by
Bondgy Inc., the Spokane-based maker of pet owner-pet communication device iCPooch, plans next month to roll out a new product, called iCLovedOnes, for human interaction.
Brooke Martin, a Ferris High School sophomore who invented both devices and whose
Stay Alfred, a three-year old company based here that rents out downtown vacation properties in large cities, may be one of the fastest growing Spokane companies that nobody has heard of, asserts Skyler Reep, company spokesman.
Headquartered in almost
Sandpoint's diverse and growing employment base is helping offset last year's loss of major employer Coldwater Creek, several business representatives and observers there say.
Companies representing software, aerospace, biomedical, and manufacturing