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Startup Businesses Panic as Silicon Valley Bank Goes Under
Early startup companies have a fine line to walk when they get into the very costly position of being a business owner. It’s a very delicate balance between money management and careful business decisions, all the while striving for nonstop…
“We’re Putting Inflation in the Rearview Mirror,” says Goldman Sachs CEO
To say that the past few years have been anything but terrible for the U.S. economy would be a bold-faced lie. “Inflation” has been the keyword thrown around most during these times, and whether people want to place the blame on politicians…
Herb Rothschild Jr.: PR and the LNG pipeline
I wouldn’t have liked to earn my living in public relations. Not that there’s anything intrinsically wrong with the occupation. Still, I think I would have foundered on moral dilemmas. For example, I wouldn’t have wanted to work on the PR…
Invention awaits you at Talent Maker City
TALENT — A makerspace that will encourage local entrepreneurs and supply them with tools, equipment and space is close to opening its first component.
The space will eventually allow budding inventors to create prototypes, take…
Celebrity chef Guy Fieri visits 3 Ashland restaurants
Guy Fieri, the celebrity star of “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” on the Food Network passed through Ashland Thursday. At 10:30 a.m. he tweeted, “1st stop on the family road trip to Yellowstone – Emigrant lake in Ashland, Oregon. Used to come…
OSF to lay off a dozen employees
At its year-end company call Friday, Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced that, mainly because of lost revenues from smoky air, it will trim seven positions from the acting company and five from non-acting posts in development, artistic…
Reopening of Safeway in Ashland tentatively set for November
Ashland’s long-empty Safeway grocery store is slated for re-opening as a Safeway market about the first of November, with many features that make it “an entirely new store.”
The re-born Safeway will have an all-new Starbucks department…
Hong Kong officials will buy Brammo bikes
Electric motorcycle maker Brammo Inc. said today the Hong Kong government will replace its existing conventional fuel-burning motorcycles with Brammo's Enertia Plus motorcycles.
"This is a significant milestone in the adoption of electric…
Polaris Industries acquires stake in Brammo Inc
ASHLAND — Minnesota-based off-road and powersports vehicle maker Polaris Industries has acquired a stake in electric motorcycle developer and manufacturer Brammo Inc.
Privately held Brammo said this morning it has completed a $28 million…
U.S. figure skating legend all settled in
Tai Babilonia wears a gold half-moon charm around her neck, given to her by Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. The only time it ever came off was at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York; she will never take it off again.
That year, an…