By Denise Loter-Koch

Like the advent of the locomotive, the cloud creates business opportunities that simply weren’t possible before now. Get up to speed fast in May at an exciting cloud-empowered Portland event.

Barran Liebman is proud to announce that Andrew Schpak, a Partner of the firm, has been named Chair of the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division for the 2014-2015 bar year.

Three new branches signify OnPoint’s commitment to increase access for members.

EasyStreet® Inc., an enterprise-class Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and cloud provider, announced today that Rich Bader, one of the company’s founders and its only CEO since 1995, will retire at the end of January. EasyStreet also named Jon Thomsen as Chief Executive Officer.

In a unanimous vote, Eugene councilors vote to draft ordinance banning plastic bags at all city retailers.

A bill requiring all health insurance plans to cover abortions has passed the House, awaits Senate.

The social marketing software designer moved its headquarters to Silicon Valley last year but still has a prominent presence in Portland. Its IPO is launching along with at least 11 others this week.

Senator Jeff Merkley introduced a bill that would reduce the wait time for small businesses in hard-hit communities to benefit from federal aid.