Praxair Inc.’s community engagement leader, Tamara Brown, was named one of Fortune Magazine’s Heroes of the Fortune 500. Brown was recognized for founding Tech Savvy, a program that uses hands-on...
View ArticleTouring downtown Buffalo’s new spaces on Saturday
If you want to see some of the newest loft apartments, hotels and office spaces in downtown Buffalo, here’s your chance.The third-annual Buffalo Living Tour will tour six high-end stops, including...
View ArticleMighty Taco opens another Rochester area site
Mighty Taco has opened a location in Greece.It is the Buffalo-based fast food chain’s second location in the Rochester area. It opened its first, in Henrietta, in 2012.Mighty Taco has another 21...
View ArticleOn the Record / June 19, 2014
Hires/Promotions/Honors The Buffalo Niagara Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners honored its Women in Leadership for 2013-14 recently. The honorees are: Laurie Albertsson, vice...
View ArticleMusk’s entrepreneurial ambitions are otherworldly
Elon Musk reigns over an entrepreneurial landscape of epic proportions: With Tesla Motors, the cherub-faced CEO wants to wean us off fossil fuels with electric cars for the masses. With SolarCity, he...
View ArticleHot sauce maker opening restaurant
An Allentown hot sauce-maker is opening a bar and restaurant in Black Rock.Valerie Meli, owner of HeadStone Heat hot sauce, and her partner Glen Plato will open Hot Mama’s Canteen in the former...
View ArticleStocks post gains for third day in a row
Stocks rebounded from a downbeat start Tuesday, building on small gains for the third day in a row.News that U.S. consumer prices jumped sharply in May drove up long-term interest rates, setting the...
View ArticleCEOs more optimistic on hiring, sales
WASHINGTON – Optimism among chief executives of large U.S. companies has reached a two-year high, driven by a more positive outlook toward hiring and sales.The Business Roundtable said Tuesday that...
View ArticleMedical Campus plans career forum for Wednesday
The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus will host a career fair and networking event today for potential job-seekers to learn more about careers in Western New York’s growing health care community.The...
View ArticleSome retirees are finding that a second act is easier
Never in a million years did Cheryl Delaney expect to spend her retirement working with the elderly. Her entire career had been in the financial sector – as a bank officer and loan administrator, in...
View ArticleHospital board cites intention for Lake Shore to split away
DUNKIRK – The board of directors that governed both Brooks Memorial and Lake Shore hospitals has announced a formal intention to split Lake Shore away and leave the hospitals to make independent...
View ArticlePlan rates to rise slowly at 2 area health insurers, sharply at Univera
Members of individual and small-group health insurance plans offered by HealthNow New York and Independent Health would see their rates rise next year at a slower pace than in recent years, and some...
View ArticlePublic input is sought on outer harbor
Less than a year after the transfer of outer harbor land to a state waterfront development agency, the effort to convert the prized acreage into a regional attraction is being pushed into high gear by...
View ArticleTour offers look at downtown Buffalo’s newest spaces on Saturday
If you want to see some of the newest loft apartments, hotels and office spaces in downtown Buffalo, here’s your chance.The third annual Buffalo Living Tour will tour six high-end stops, including...
View ArticleCroce gets tax breaks for Curtiss Building hotel conversion
Developer Mark D. Croce’s $18.1 million plan to turn the long-vacant Curtiss Building into a boutique hotel and restaurant won the backing of the Erie County Industrial Development Agency for a...
View ArticleUltra-Scan inducted into SBIR Hall of Fame
Ultra-Scan Corp. of Amherst, which uses ultrasound technology in fingerprint identification, was inducted into the Small Business Innovation Research Hall of Fame this week.The Small Business...
View ArticleBills’ fieldhouse renamed ADPRO Sports Training Center
The Buffalo Bills on Tuesday announced the fieldhouse at One Bills Drive will be renamed ADPRO Sports Training Center to reflect its partnership with the Buffalo-based Nike sports apparel dealer.A...
View ArticleM&T Bank must forfeit $560K from drug money transactions
BALTIMORE — A federal judge in Baltimore is ordering M&T Bank Corp. to forfeit $560,000 in drug money laundered through a branch in Perry Hall.U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein announced the forfeiture...
View ArticleSynacor investors seek seat in the board
A pair of investment funds that control nearly 10 percent of Synacor Inc.’s stock are turning up the heat on the Buffalo Internet content provider’s management.JEC Capital Partners, a...
View ArticleLake Shore hospital welcomes move to grant it more independence
A move to split off Lake Shore Health Care Center in Irving from Brooks Memorial Hospital in Dunkirk should boost efforts to keep the financially troubled Irving hospital open, Lake Shore...
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