Senators Grill Apple and Google over Location Tracking and Privacy by Rob Morgan Davis, Wright & Tremaine LLP, Oregon law firm Privacy & Security During the maiden hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s new Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law chaired by Senator Franken, committee members pressed Google and […]

By Oregon Better Business Bureau Customers of Michaels Stores, Inc. should be aware of tampered personal identification number (PIN) pads and the possible risk that credit and debit card information has been compromised. Pin skimming has been reported at Michael Stores locations across the country. Oregon stores in Beaverton, Tualatin, […]

By Patrick Emerson Oregon Economics Blog Eco-nomics: Bike Sales Up with Gas Prices.  From the USA Today I learn that, unsurprisingly perhaps, bike and scooter sales have surged with gas prices: Sales of new bikes rose 9% in the first quarter of this year, compared with the same period in […]

New Vehicle Inventories Are Depleting Quickly By Jose Mesa José Mesa Auto Wholesale, LLC It was not that long ago that earthquakes and tsunamis hit Japan. The effects are now beginning to hit us here in America as far as new vehicle inventories are concerned. Honda and Toyota were hit […]

Seniors and women are leaving the workforce in high numbers By Oregon Tax News As the Baby Boomer generation reaches retirement age, USA TODAY reports that the working population fell to its lowest level last year since women entered the workforce nearly 30 years ago. In 2010, only 45.4% of […]

NFIB Poll: Small Biz optimism continues to wane second month in a row By National Federation of Independent Business WASHINGTON,  – The month of April marked a second consecutive month of decline in small-business optimism; NFIB’s index dropped to 91.2 in April – a much smaller dip than the previous […]

The Great Recession Didn’t Make Health Care Bleed By Jessica Nelson Oregon Employment Department Looking for silver linings in the economy after the Great Recession, the health care industry often surfaces. Well before the Great Recession, many analysts saw health care as “recession proof,” a simplistic label the industry made […]

By Bill Conerly, Conerly Consulting, Businomics Back in January I wrote: “The economy will gradually improve over the course of 2011, which is mostly good news, but will present some challenges to business. Notably, your best employees will have opportunities at other companies. You may still be hunkered down, with […]

Four business groups announced together their list of business bills. The groups are; Associated Oregon Industries, Oregon Business Association, Oregon Business Council, and the Portland Business Alliance. Source: Value of Jobs.com Bills to spur Job Creation in Oregon(*) Strengthen Oregon’s Innovation Economy — The $18.95 million Oregon Innovation Plan investment […]

By Patrick Emerson Oregon Economics Blog This graphic from The Economist shows the fall of the Dollar (though note the recent fairly wide fluctuations). I am glad my vacationing this summer is all in the US.