Technology

PAML partners to launch cancer diagnostic tool

Product includes precise genetic sequence testing

February 13, 2014

Spokane-based national reference laboratory Pathology Associates Medical Laboratory LLC is launching with its partner, Seattle-based lab CellNetix Pathology & Laboratories, a new cancer diagnostic product, which will be marketed under the name Symbiodx.

One Good Thread LLC: Pretty threads for the Web

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February 13, 2014

Mike McLean

Working in the office of a converted service station downtown, Chi Walters, co-founder of One Good Thread LLC, opens a cardboard box as if it's a treasure chest. She gasps and sighs with delight as she examines the pretty contents, one dainty little ite

Itron posts big loss for quarter, year

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February 12, 2014

Staff Report

Itron Inc., the Liberty Lake-based maker of meter reading technology, reported today a fourth-quarter net loss of $154.4 million, or $3.93 a diluted share, compared with net income of $16 million, or 40 cents a share, in the year-earlier period. For al

Low-impact development said to be in higher demand

Landscape architect reports more inquiries about environmentally friendly architecture

January 30, 2014

Treva Lind

Landscape architect Len Zickler, a principal in the Spokane office of Tacoma-based AHBL Inc., says the company is seeing more requests to design environmentally friendly infrastructure to manage stormwater drainage. He expects this approach, called low-

Kiemle & Hagood subsidiary promotes greener building management practices

brokerage's subsidiary works to help owners find savings

January 30, 2014

Kim Crompton

Kiemle & Hagood Co. says it and a facility-services subsidiary it operates have been using greener building management and maintenance practices they implemented fully three years ago to help building owners and tenants achieve sizable energy savings. Th

Imprezzio's sales-lead technology earns patent

Software created to help users manage contacts

January 30, 2014

Mike McLean

The U.S. Patent Office has awarded Spokane-based business software company Imprezzio Inc. its first patent for its sales-lead management technology. The technology is part of Imprezzio's proprietary software named LeadFlowPro, which filters and routes

Hospitality tech company buys distribution right for Spokane, Boise

Spark Solutions now handles Micros here, in Boise

January 30, 2014

Katie Ross

Salt Lake City-based Spark Solutions Group LLC has acquired distribution rights for the Spokane market for Maryland-based Micros System Inc.'s point-of-sale products, including touch-screen computers that restaurants use to track orders, cash registers,

MPM Technologies, partners pursue biofuels niche

Parties hope to advance alternative gas production

January 16, 2014

Treva Lind

MPM Technologies Inc., a 25-year-old Spokane-based provider of environmental control systems and developer of waste-to-energy technology, says it's working with Washington State University and a software consulting company to research and develop gasifi

Spokane STEM Network integrates with GSI

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January 7, 2014

Linn Parish

Greater Spokane Incorporated announced today that it has begun leading the day-to-day operations of the Spokane STEM Network, a nonprofit organization that works to advance science, technology, engineering, and math learning and innovation. Alisha B

Of fancy pixels and loyalty to pulp

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December 19, 2013

Paul Read

I'm often asked whether there is a future for newspapers. It's a valid question, what with all the dizzying growth in Internet-based content, mobile-device applications, and social media. One might wonder if anyone cares about reading a printed newsp