Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Massachusetts-based NeuroMetrix Inc. said yesterday that it will close its Columbia office by the end of the year and discontinue the work that is now done there. The office handled sales of DigiScopes, which were developed at the Johns Hopkins University's Wilmer Eye Institute to detect diseases such as diabetic retinopathy. When NeuroMetrix acquired the Columbia operations in December...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
IHA provides healthcare services to more than 750,000 residents of British Columbia through a network of 183 hospitals and offices across the southeastern portion of the province. With the volume of electronic data growing by orders of magnitude in recent years, IHA found itself adding as many as 10 hardware servers each week to keep pace with business demands. The space requirements and costs...
The Real Estate (Free subscription) | yesterday
Columbia has paid $14.8 million for a warehouse in the footprint of its planned West Harlem expansion, closing on a deal from 2007 with the owners of Despatch Moving & Storage, according to property records. The sale price equates to about $235 per square foot, based on figures from the real estate tracking service PropertyShark, which puts the size of the building at 62,200 square feet. read...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
SAINT-DAMIEN, QUEBEC (MARKET WIRE) IPL Inc. (TSX: IPI.A), one of North America's leading manufacturers of plastic products, has been awarded, by the City of Kelowna, British Columbia, on behalf of the Regional District of Central Okanagan and its member municipalities, a contract valued at more than $7.2 million to manufacture and distribute wheeled carts. The carts will be manufactured at the...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
County Executive Ron Sims has proposed that he and his staff vacate the space they rent in the Columbia Center downtown and occupy instead the eighth floor of the county's new office building a few blocks south.
Hecate (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Isaac Bonewits , yes, THAT Isaac Bonewits, runs a great group called Spells for Democracy . Here's one of his latest posts: We're coming down to the end of the campaigns and the actual voting. Here's what we need to be doing in the next few weeks to assure a fair and honest election. Pick one and get to work! Do the mundane stuff: Make sure you and your friends and neighbors are registered to vote...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
CANONSBURG, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Low-income families in Pennsylvania who struggle to pay their heating bills can expect more of a helping hand this winter. Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania is
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Columbia River ports have made an offer to buy Howard Island to help compensate for ecological damage caused by dredging to deepen the river's ship channel.
Universe Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pages from an astronaut's diary survived the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003, and on Sunday, selected pages went on display at a museum in Jerusalem. Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon kept a personal diary during his time in orbit, and portions of it were found about two months after Columbia broke apart [...]
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
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SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jesse Eisenberg is in final talks to join Woody Harrelson in Columbia Pictures' horror comedy Zombieland, about a mismatched pair of survivors who find friendship and redemption in a world overrun by zombies, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a leading provider of managed care market intelligence, reports that the healthcare market in the Columbia, S.C. region is largely defined by a fragmented physician market as well as highly competitive health systems.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Contact Solutions (CSI), the industry leader in contact automation, announced that Columbia Bank (Tacoma, WA, NASDAQ:COLB) is a new customer of the firm
core77.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Senior Footwear Designer: Women's Lifestyle Columbia Sportswear Portland, Oregon For the Women's Lifestyle footwear products you will conceptualize and perform a wide variety of product design tasks in the development of new footwear products including the selection of components, materials, and colors. Conduct research for worldwide trends in the design of new products. You will also act as...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
KALAMA, Wash. -- Columbia River ports have made an offer to buy Howard Island to help compensate for ecological damage caused by dredging to deepen the river's ship channel.
