PIE picks seven startups
The Portland Incubator Experiment named seven companies to its third class.
New Seasons coming to Tualatin
New Seasons announced it will have a store in Tualatin’s Nyberg Rivers shopping center. It will be its farthest store from Portland.
Street of Dreams tour begins
NW Natural’s Street of Dreams home tour will display nine homes in West Linn beginning this weekend.
Bank of England chooses Jane Austen for 10 pound note
AP: Jane Austen will become the new face on England’s 10-pound notes.
Boeing profit jumps
Reuters: Boeing Co (BA.N) posted a better-than-expected 13 percent jump in second-quarter profit on Wednesday.
Google accounts for 25 percent of Internet traffic
CNN Money: Google is a quarter of all American Internet traffic, and is growing faster than the Internet itself.
Portland gains thousands of jobs
Portland gained thousands of jobs in June, despite losses throughout the rest of the state.
Daimler Trucks workers end strike
Daimler Trucks North America’s Swan Island plant workers ended a strike after three weeks.
Springfield welcomes food carts
Springfield passed to amendments altering municipal code to allow business owners to sell food on the streets.
Oregon’s greenhouse gas emissions down
Greenhouse gas emissions have decreased 8% in Oregon between 2005 and 2010, according to the Department of Environmental Quality.