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Recapping the past year's highs and lows in business and the markets, with downloadable tables reviewing how the NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ and mutual funds performed.
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Keep tabs on which local companies are cutting staff
· Tech layoffs
· All layoffs
· Tell us about new layoffs
Scorecard for the major stock market indexes
Microsoft Blog
Extending and enhancing our regular coverage.
· Chart: Microsoft's search share stays flat in December
· EU leans towards Opera in Microsoft antitrust probe
James Wallace on Aerospace
All about companies aiming for the sky.
· An A380 configured to carry 840 passengers!
· Next Air Force One -- a 747-8 or Airbus A380?
Andrea on Amazon
Andrea James on Amazon.com and other online retail
· Customer voters choose 98115 for AmazonFresh delivery
· Brick-and-mortar suffering mounts
Seattle Real Estate News
Aubrey Cohen with the latest on the housing market in Seattle
· Short sale debt forgiveness not to be taxed
· Feeling blue?
Reader blog: Northwest Frequent Flier
· Sea-Tac to "Pre-condition" Airplanes
· Why Boeing is Cutting 4,500 Jobs
· A Better Look at Airfares
Reader blog: Let's Get Fiscal
· Why your credit rating matters
· Downsizing debt
· Build a budget and decrease debt
Reader Blog: Jobless in Seattle
Navigating unemployement and the job hunt
· Hope deferred
· Fear Itself
Reader Blog: Media Money Monkey
Tips on personal finance from Tom Layson
· Stop Screwing
· Leno at 10? News at 11? Me no think so
Reader Blog: The Biz Bite
Advice to boost your business
· Man's (and woman's) best friend: a ghostwriter
· Free Radio Podcast: How transparent are you in your business?
Reader Blog: In Good Company
Author Jennifer Heigle offers help for Small Business
· Biggest Business Blunders of 2008
· This Week's Favorite Small Business Links
Reader Blog: Start Her Up
Advice and resources for the woman entrepreneur
· Here Comes The Bride
· Don't Ask If You're Not Going To Listen
Bill Virgin
· Boeing among green leaders
· Forecast of short recession looks shaky
Inside Entrepreneurship
· Details critical in deferred salaries
· Minimizing the pain from a failing business
Workplace Coach
· Use a review of last year to help guide career resolutions for 2009
· The lessons learned from 2008
· ConocoPhillips writes off $34B in noncash assets
· Disney CEO received $51.1M in compensation in 2008
· Scripps mum on any interest in Rocky Mountain News
· Venezuela to use $12B in Central Bank reserves
· Gannett says it will sell or close Tucson Citizen
· Chrysler Financial gets $1.5B loan from bailout
More headlines
· Correction: Video game sales story
· Senate Republicans block delay in TV transition
· AMD to cut 1,100 workers, 9 pct of staff
· Samsung Electronics reorganizes to fight slump
· Intel sees more hard times in 2009
· Video game sales top $21 billion in 2008
More headlines
VC Notebook
Venture capital news, local vc firms, upcoming IPOs, funding & layoffs.
University Honda goes out of business
University Honda Yamaha appears to have permanently closed its doors.
Puget Energy deal enters final stage
Bellevue-based utility Puget Energy and its buyers set a closing date of Feb. 6.
Arctic Club Hotel to announce new partner
Seattle's upscale Arctic Club Hotel, which opened in July, said it will announce next week an affiliation with a major hotel company and a new, less-expensive restaurant to replace the upscale Juno eatery now in place at the 120-room hotel.
EU leans against Microsoft in antitrust case
The European Commission said this week that its "preliminary view" was that Microsoft Corp. violated European antitrust law by bundling its Internet Explorer browser with its Windows operating system.
Ballard cries 'uncle': 3 retailers closing doors
Mandrakes Antiques & Great Things in Ballard has a sign in the window that says, simply, "UNCLE." The business will close by the end of February.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2009
- Redmond circuit-board plant to close
- State could get $1.2 billion in recession aid
- Qwest to close Seattle financial services center
- Recession has Google cutting 100 recruiters
- Layoffs mount around Seattle area
- Outlook worse as Paccar layoffs proceed
- Rising new jobless claims among increasingly grim economic news
- Hundreds call in as Hawaii makes switch to digital
- Airbus still world's largest plane maker
- Beer sales fall in sober economy
- Small Business Scene: At Meyer Wells, fallen trees become high-end furniture
- Bank bailout 'was getting better, but now it's just going to hell'
- Earnings: JPMorgan posts 'very disappointing' profit
- Inside Entrepreneurship: Details critical in deferred salaries
- Vulcan Inc. to lay off 50 employees
- Business Briefing
- Technology Briefing
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2009
- State's economy had bleak year
- County foreclosures up 88%
- Now taxpayers can file online free regardless of income
- Hearst asks P-I staff for Web site ideas
- Music labels banking on new iTunes pricing
- Boeing among green leaders
- Starbucks pledges free coffee in every volunteer's cup
- New Yahoo CEO 'fearless'
- Airbus: A350 development on track
- China-grown coffee launched
- Apple's Jobs takes medical leave
- Federal regulators tuned in to Hawaii's digital TV conversion
- Airlines' performance dips in November
- Business Briefing
- Technology Briefing
- Starbucks to ask customers to donate time
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2009
- The Money Squeeze: Employees get a break -- but they don't get paid
- Autodesk CEO takes Yahoo's reins
- Forecast is dismal for a struggling Sony
- Jewelry loses some of its retail luster
- Shane Co. seeks bankruptcy protection
- Parental oversight seen as crucial to protect kids online
- Aerospace Notebook: Boeing cuts revive memories of heavy layoffs
- WaMu to get Chase makeover in California
- Seattle federal bank shows weakness
- Signs of credit market thaw begin to emerge
- Treasury to compare lending by banks to measure bailout usage
- Don't avoid the IRS, even in hard times
- Spokane company sells timberland in Arkansas
- EADS focuses on preserving its cash
- Business Briefing
- Technology Briefing
TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2009
- FedEx to buy 15 more Boeing 777 freighters
- Microsoft joins project to assess learning skills
- Forecast of short recession looks shaky
- Groups fear data gathering for mobile ads poses threat
- Dell settles with states over claims about financing, service
- Careful consumers force new retail approaches
- FTC asks court to halt Wild Oats integration into Whole Foods
- FDIC asks banks to track use of bailout
- GM touts battery plan but says it may need more loans
- Chinese automakers raise profile at show
- Business Briefing
- Technology Briefing
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