Sony Corp. plans to offer an e-book reader with the ability to wirelessly download books, injecting more competition in a small but fast-growing market by adopting a key feature of the rival Kindle from Amazon.com.
The Walt Disney Co. is punching its way into the universe of superheroes and their male fans with a deal announced Monday to acquire Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion, bringing characters such as Iron Man and Spider-Man into the family of Mickey Mouse and "Toy Story."
The Big Sky Institute for the Advancement of Nonprofits announces the availability of Assessment Awards for 2010 through the Montana Nonprofit Connections MNC Program. The purpose of MNC is to strengthen nonprofit organizations so that they become more effective and efficient in managing their internal operations and accomplishing their mission.
Assessment Awards provide an experienced consultant to conduct a comprehensive organizational review including such topics as board governance human resource management planning financial manage ment and fundraising.
A Great Falls based nonprofit that provides technical assistance to cooperatives was awarded a 200 000 grant Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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The grant to Montana Cooperative Development Center Inc. was part of approximately 4.8 million in grants announced by Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan.
Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program
The primary goals of the Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program CFPCGP are to: 1 Meet the food needs of low income individuals; 2 Increase the self reliance of communities in providing for the food needs of the communities; 3 Promote comprehensive responses to local food farm and nutrition issues; and 4 Meet specific State local or neighborhood food and agricultural needs including needs relating to: a Infrastructure improvement and development; b Planning for long term solutions; or c The creation of innovati
With unemployment in the double digits a local economic development group along with Flathead County officials is working to entice new employers and additional jobs by competing for state grant monies.
Representatives from Montana West Economic Development http://dobusinessinmontana.com/ asked county commissioners last week to help them tap into state funds used to relocate new companies or grow existing ones.
About 500 000 collected through resort taxes should be spent on nationwide marketing of Big Sky to "stop the downward spiral of our visitor patterns experienced this winter " the Big Sky Chamber of Commerce said.
A five person board will decide in June how to allocate money from the resort taxes.
"I don t want to paint a picture that we are in more of a crisis than anywhere else but we re feeling it " Chamber of Commerce executive Marne Hayes said.
The new executive director of the Montana Meth Project http://www.montanameth.org/ former Department of Corrections head Bill Slaughter said meth forced him to change the way he thought about drug abuse.
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"Early on we realized we re not going to arrest our way out of this " he said. "It was a transformation for me because I believed in arresting people and putting them in jail."
For decades most of the nation s renewable power has come from dams which supplied cheap electricity without requiring fossil fuels. But the federal agencies running the dams often compiled woeful track records on other environmental issues.
Now with the focus in Washington on clean power some dam agencies are starting to go green embracing wind power and energy conservation. The most aggressive is the Bonneville Power Administration whose power lines carry much of the electricity in the Pacific Northwest.
HELENA (AP) — Attorney General Steve Bullock said Monday that his office has taken legal action against AirTEL Wireless. The cell phone provider abruptly shut down its operation in Montana in February without reimbursing its customers.
Most students try not to think about school during the summer. But a number of them took to the streets on a sweltering August day to talk up public education to people who might normally enroll their children in private or parochial schools.
The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for jobless benefits dropped last week, and the number of people remaining on the rolls also fell, evidence that layoffs have eased.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has launched an addition to its online business that has outside retailers selling nearly 1 million new items through Walmart.com, a move that could help the world's largest retailer catch up in the online world.
Local businesses are seeing some hopeful signs of an economic recovery. Fortunately Montana has not experienced the job losses seen in other states. But not all is rosy.
Unemployment rates in Western Montana are some of the highest in the state. And as Dr. Larry Swanson of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West pointed out to an audience of 300 this past April at the second Community Economic Forum Missoula compares well to 50 peer communities in the country with two notable exceptions: Income and wages are low and we have a relatively high poverty rate. In the words of Dr.
