The Women’s Center is offering financial workshops each Thursday through the end of the month. All workshops are free and open to both women and men; couples are welcome.
Category: Business
UNC completes first express license
UNC and Synereca Pharmaceuticals, Inc. have completed the first Carolina Express License, a newly adopted license agreement to foster more new spin-out companies that result from academic research conducted on campus.
When immigration and job creation collide
A couple weeks ago, U.S. senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) introduced the “Start-up Visa Act†to promote job creation in businesses owned by non-U.S. citizens. The proposal …
Talecris wins service award
North Carolina Children’s Hospital announced this month that Talecris Biotherapeutics was awarded the hospital’s first-ever Curtis Media Group Service to Children Award, which recognizes companies for extraordinary commitment to the state’s children through their support of the Children’s Hospital. Having donated nearly $120,000 to the Children’s Hospital over the past three years, Talecris was chosen…
Harrington announces new site
Harrington Bank recently announced a new website for online banking and information about the bank’s services, including mortgage information and savings rates. The bank also announced plans to add a Facebook page this month.
HBA holds fundraiser
The Home Builders Association of Durham, Orange and Chatham counties will hold its 18th annual Parade of Playhomes fundraiser during the month of April at various locations throughout the three counties. A total of five custom children’s playhomes will be built. Three houses, built by Southern High School, Orange High School and Northwood High School,…
Chamber event
This month’s Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours will be held today (Thursday) from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Extraordinary Ventures on South Elliott Road. No registration is required and the event is free for chamber members. Pam Herndon, an agent with State Farm Insurance, is co-sponsor of the event.
Do you have a need for speed?
Margot C. Lester If you’ve been hanging around Facebook or listening to WCHL, you’ve probably heard that Google’s looking for a town (or maybe more) to test-drive it’s über-high-speed Internet. Google will offer networks via an “open access†model, meaning that customers have access to several service providers. The initial stage of the program will…
Gaming company on FB
Chapel Hill-based Merscom Games (merscom.com) has developed a social-media game for Facebook, the company announced this month. The Crazies, a tower-defense game the company developed for the social-media site, is based on the movie of the same name. Merscom also recently announced a game based on the movie Shutter Island.
Business after hours
The ArtsCenter will host the Chapel Hill Carrboro-Chamber of Commerce’s Business After Hours networking event Thursday, Feb. 18 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to all chamber members.
Sustainability event rescheduled
A look at innovation’s role in the future of green building at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School that was canceled due to inclement weather has been rescheduled for March 19. Kenan-Flagler’s Center for Sustainable Enterprise will present Rob Watson, a pioneer of the modern green-building movement, and Dennis Quaintance, owner of Proximity Hotel in Greensboro, in…
Chatham development in focus
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce is holding its annual Chatham County Development Briefing on Tuesday, March 9 from 8 to 10 a.m. Confirmed speakers include Sally Kost, chair of the Chatham County Commissioners; Dianne Reid, president of the Chatham Economic Development Corporation; and Bill Whitmore, president of the Greater Chapel Hill Association of REALTORS….
A homemade treat goes big time
RECENTLY . . . BY VALARIE SCHWARTZ The cellophane packages look innocent enough with their little Carolina blue ribbons. First-time buyers naively pluck them from shelves and take them home with no inkling of the pleasures to be elicited while eating them; or the pangs when they’re depleted. This is the story of how a…
Local biz owners forecast
Margot C. Lester Enough about last year. What does 2010 have in store for the local economy? “I think at best that it will be a year of very slow growth,†says Brad Broadwell, Orange County’s economic development officer. “Some exceptions for moderate growth potential can be found in the areas of health care and…
Walk Carrboro
The Carrboro Merchants Association, now in its second year, held a get-together at founder Jesse Kalisher’s gallery on Friday to announce the second edition of its Walk Carrboro map. Mayor Mark Chilton was on hand for the unveiling and said he hopes the map and the Walk Carrboro effort, along with the increase in downtown…