Committee chairman declares the bill dead after critics say it has a police-state ring to it.

It turns out both cranes -- building different Intel fabs -- are the largest in their own right. But that hasn't stopped some good-natured ribbing between Intel sites.

The startup recently won a Microsoft-sponsored contest, snaring $50,000 and a year's subscription to the company's new Office 365, its offering in the cloud computing market.

An agreement among Gov. John Kitzhaber, legislators and the big social network company over taxes could lead to other companies locating data storage centers in the state, a lawmaker says.

A private equity firm has agreed to purchase Lake Oswego-based compliance software maker EthicsPoint Inc. and merge it with two other companies in the governance, risk and compliance industry.

My most recent Oregonian column on driving and texting hands-free with Apple’s Siri (or trying to anyway) elicited a great deal of reader response. “You're dumb,” wrote one Apple fan. “Just say ‘Text my wife 'How was your day?' Works for me.” If you watch the video, that's exactly what I did -- several times.

The Hillsboro chip maker company benefited from cost-cutting and an income tax benefit.

Cloud computing, a growing global market for technology and other long-term currents bode well for this year and beyond.

A new course at Sherwood High School, known as No Boys Allowed, and a Pacific University camp for girls hopes to encourage more girls to pursue careers in engineering and technology.

Fourth quarter investment totaled $48.6 million, as investors again concentrated on cleantech startups.

The giant social media company says it needs more certainty about tax breaks after building a data center in Prineville.

The chip giant has benefited from the economic surge in China and other developing countries, where PC sales are surging.

VendScreen is among the eight members of the Wieden+Kennedy-driven startup lab.

The commission voted 5-0 to award the grant as the fund's directors interview companies for its second class.

FEI Co. announced Monday that it bought a Pennsylvania electron microscope maker.

Sheetal Dube launched the startup in April to help people share the correct pronunciation of their names.

Faced with a $15 million budget nightmare, PBOT is talking about sacrificing Sunday Parkways and Bike Boulevards. Meanwhile, TriMet officials stop treating Twitter like it will steal their soul in 140 characters or less.

The seedling businesses are turning to crowdfunding, which is quickly becoming a mainstream way to cover startup costs.

With new licensing deals, and new technologies in development, Rumblefish may now be nearing an inflection point.

The tems of the deal, announced today, weren't disclosed.

While you’re sleeping, the winter alarm clock/commuting app collects weather data from myriad sources and promises to wake you up earlier if it snowed, giving you ample time to scrape , shovel and warm up your ride.

Sen. Ron Wyden is siding with such internet giants as Google and Facebook on heated legislation over internet piracy. His opponents in this fight include the Hollywood film studios, record labels and software producers.

While Bike Portland editor and publisher Jonathan Maus did the right thing and pulled the plug on the Internet trickery, several sites, including Huffington Post, continue to help what looks like a bogus degree mill gain Google power.

Intel survey of teenagers finds they don't know what engineers do, which may hamper that as a career choice, but they generally respect engineers and like the job's financial stability.

The application allows businesses to get real-time feedback from customers.

"If no solution can be reached within the next week or two, the project will simply bypass Oregon City," county spokesman Tim Heider said. "The fire district, schools and hospitals, businesses and households that stood to benefit from real choices for affordable, high-speed broadband access will go without.&q

The amount would value Facebook at as much as $100 billion, according to the report. That's more than four times the market capitalization that Google Inc. had at the time of its 2004 IPO.

Nonprofit The Indus Entrepreneurs opens its first physical space in Oregon in a Tanasbourne-area building owned by Melvin Mark.

Behind its fenceline in The Dalles, Google's cloak of mystery dissolves into a playground for nerds. It's a taste of Silicon Valley, washed down with an Oregon microbrew.

Tight construction deadlines at Intel's D1X plant overwhelmed the county's permitting process for dealing with excavated materials. As a result, 780,000 cubic yards of soil had to be quickly dumped somewhere. Some soils were improperly placed in wetlands, prompting the county for the first time in its history to revoke a fi