Say you’re under 40 and, like most everyone else, you log into your Facebook account today. You’ll notice the latest iteration of a game you played in elementary school, Oregon Trail. Only instead of rationing your resources in a classroom, you can now play for hours with friends online, spend real money in the form of facebook credits on wagon gadgetry, and, say, bomb down the Green River collecting gold coins and rescuing drowning children.
Gov. John Kitzhaber wants to increase tax breaks for film and television production by $10 million a year.
Government officials met in Portland with entrepreneurs interested in selling sustainable products and services to talk about going green.
The number of people receiving Oregon’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is growing, and businesses are responding.
Intel has installed two new solar arrays in Hillsboro, which together generate roughly the power used by 80 homes, about 800 kilowatts of electricity.
Illegal downloading of music and movies is on the rise in Ashland, despite the threat of huge fines.
Clackamas-based Emmert International will begin trucking oil refinery drums holding replacement parts for a ConocoPhillips refinery in Montana through Idaho.
OSU professor Fred Kamke has partnered with Corvallis Tool Company for years to develop his Viscoelastic Thermal Compression technology.
A converted Liberty Ship from WWII has split open and is leaking oil into the Columbia River.
CEOs — and others in the C-Suite — can find themselves in a bubble, an alternate reality, detached from what’s really happening in the business. Here is how you can figure out whether you are in a bubble like that, and how you can get out.