Technology

Startup involving Whitworth professor launches new app

TextMuse has preloaded content for messaging

July 16, 2015

Whitworth University professor Pete Tucker, who co-founded a software development startup a year ago, says its new text messaging app called TextMuse provides smartphone users with automatic content updated daily to share as quick communication with conta

Sacred Heart tabbed as regional treatment center

Hospital here one of nine nationally to garner grants

July 2, 2015

Staff Report

The Washington state Department of Health says a five-year federal grant announced last month will help prepare Spokane's Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital to better manage patients with Ebola and other severe, highly infect

Health eXpress provides guidance via the Web

On-demand video service combines convenience, broad access

July 2, 2015

Mike McLean

Through a recently expanded online program, Eastern Washington residents can obtain minor medical treatments and services without leaving their home or office.

AppleBrides.com: Wedding Blogging Bliss

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July 2, 2015

Treva Lind

Planning her own 2009 Spokane wedding from Ireland, Rachel Sandall hit an online wall. Google searches six years ago yielded two or three options for venues, without much for photos, so Sandall leaned on personal knowledge from growing up in Spokane to

Tate Technology founder, partner roll out new water softening device

Electronic treatment said environmentally friendly

July 2, 2015

Mike McLean

Spokane entrepreneurs Lee Tate and Daniel Phinney say they'll begin marketing this month an electronic device they've developed that treats hard water to prevent lime-scale deposits from forming and reduces existing deposits without the use of salt, c

Gravity Jack CEO 'fires' himself, tabs COO Joshua Abel to lead

Software company reports sales surge in past year

June 18, 2015

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

SRM winds down work on big Google project

Spokane-based company busy on Kirkland campus

June 4, 2015

Kim Crompton

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

Comcast leases space in Spokane Valley for call center

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

Photoboxx inks contract with Coke, other clients

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' major push

With EnerSys' financial backing, company adds new regions, diversifies

May 21, 2015

Judith Spitzer

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.