Lotus enthusiast opens dealership in Amherst
Matt Serwacki has a passion for Lotus sports cars, the flashy vehicles built by hand in England and influenced by a championship racing heritage.But Serwacki is no mere fan. He has brought a Lotus...
View ArticleCanterbury Woods opens sales office
Nearly all of the new senior apartments at Canterbury Woods’ proposed new Gates Circle facility in Buffalo are tentatively spoken for – more than two to three years before the luxury facility even...
View ArticleDissident shareholders urge Synacor’s board to sell the company
Synacor Inc.’s dissident shareholders want the company to stop its search for a new chief executive and put the company up for sale.A pair of investment funds that control nearly 10 percent of...
View ArticleAnd the cranes keep whooping, as a 270-footer rises at 250 Delaware
Another day, another tower crane in Buffalo.In what has become a refreshingly common sight across the city, workers Thursday were assembling the final piece of a tower crane that will help build 250...
View ArticleGoogle pushing to make Android the mobile software for everything
Google Inc. is on a mission to make its Android mobile software ubiquitous.In a series of announcements this week at its annual developer conference, Google unveiled a new version of the software for...
View ArticlePhoto Gallery: Highest-paid company executives in WNY
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View ArticleOn the Record / June 28, 2014
Hires/Promotions/Honors Lumsden McCormick staff accountant Zachary Newberry was presented the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh International Award for Excellence in the graduate accounting programs at the Canisius...
View ArticleNew craft beer magazine to show what’s on tap for growing industry
A new free quarterly trade magazine is riding the crest of the growing craft beer movement in Western New York.WNY Craft Beer magazine published its first edition this week, with plans for future...
View ArticleNLRB consolidation proposal pits Pittsburgh against Buffalo
Buffalo vs. Pittsburgh.We’re not talking about a pro hockey or football rivalry, or which has a prouder steelmaking heritage, but what to do about our respective National Labor Relations Board...
View ArticleBy the time you know stocks are in a correction, it’ll almost be over
One thing making people nervous about stocks these days is the fact the U.S. market has gone more than two years without a correction, or a 10 percent drop.The suspense is building because of...
View ArticleStock market ekes out small gains but still ends the week with a loss
NEW YORK – Summertime settled into Wall Street on Friday as major stock indexes drifted slightly higher going into the weekend. The listless day of trading left the stock market with a tiny loss for...
View ArticleManufacturers struggle to meet demand for ‘Frozen’ merchandise
Catch the Brose family at a red light and you’ll hear the five Brose children (and even mom and dad) belting “Let it Go,” the Oscar-winning song from Disney’s smash hit “Frozen.”Back at their...
View ArticleGibraltar slashes second-quarter earnings forecast as residential demand sags
Gibraltar Industries stock tumbled by 7 percent Friday after the company warned that its second-quarter profits will be just half as much as it had predicted after its key construction markets failed...
View ArticleSynacor says it’s open to ‘credible proposals’ for a...
Synacor Inc., responding to a push by a pair of major shareholders to put the company up for sale, said Friday it is open to “credible proposals” but remains focused on its efforts to develop new...
View ArticleNiagara County Real Estate Transactions
CAMBRIA• 4981 Ridge Road, Stein Wiener & Roth Llp; Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. to Sally W. Kolkmeyer, $65,000.HARTLAND• Ridge Road, Jill A. Paszek; Jill A. Harrod to Edward W. Paszek; Diane...
View ArticleErie County Real Estate Transactions
AKRON• 39 Eckerson Ave., W. Clayton Humphreys to KKBM Properties, $47,000.ALDEN• 13361 Irving St., Christopher P. Funk; Darleen M. Phillips; Darleen M. Funk; Barbara L. Emmons to LVS Title Trust I; US...
View ArticleInside Buffalo’s bid for clean energy
FREMONT, Calif. – What makes a pair of Silicon Valley clean energy companies pick Buffalo as the site for their new factories? Tom Caufield, a Soraa director and adviser who was a key player in the...
View ArticleSilevo’s promise of efficiency lured key player SolarCity into...
FREMONT, Calif. – When solar energy systems installer SolarCity decided to start making its own solar panels, company executives looked at about 20 different manufacturers.They decided to buy Silevo –...
View ArticleExecutive pay on the rise again
After taking a hit last year, the pay of top executives in the Buffalo Niagara region bounced back.The median pay for the 56 highest-paid executives at the publicly traded companies in the Buffalo...
View ArticleAfter Aereo, what’s next for Internet TV?
LOS ANGELES – The Supreme Court shot down Aereo’s business model this week, but that doesn’t mean customers’ desire for a better TV experience is gone.Americans are still fed up with huge channel...
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