Business

Dec. 23, 2012 @ 02:31 PM

Q Shack raising funds for NAMI

The owner of Durham’s Original Q Shack is donating 100 percent of proceeds on Jan. 2 to the National Alliance on Mental Illness in reaction to the deadly shooting in Newtown, Conn.


Dec. 23, 2012 @ 02:22 PM

Local doctors react to planned Medicaid primary care payment increase

Although there’s not really a set policy for how many Medicaid patients doctors and other Duke Primary Care providers can see, Dr. John Anderson, chief medical officer for the network, said that is something that’s monitored.


Dec. 21, 2012 @ 08:18 PM

BUSINESS BRIEFS

American Airlines to offer flight between RDU, Los Angeles


Dec. 20, 2012 @ 05:44 PM

Business briefs

Amgen Inc. will pay $1.18 million to North Carolina as part of a national settlement between the company and state and federal authorities, Attorney General Roy Cooper announced Thursday.


Dec. 20, 2012 @ 05:12 PM

Bayer CropScience buys 70 acres in RTP

Bayer CropScience bought approximately 70 acres adjacent to its Research Triangle Park site to give the company the ability to expand its operations here.


Dec. 19, 2012 @ 06:50 PM

States, tobacco companies reach agreement in principle

North Carolina along with 16 other states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico reached an agreement in principle with several tobacco companies to settle claims related to settlement agreement payments to the states.


Dec. 19, 2012 @ 06:25 PM

Windsor Circle raises more than $1 million

The Durham-based retention marketing software start-up Windsor Circle Inc. has raised more than $1 million in a Series A financing round, the company announced Wednesday.


Dec. 18, 2012 @ 07:14 PM

Business briefs

Board members of M&F Bancorp Inc., parent company of Durham-based Mechanics and Farmers Bank, will be reviewing the company’s ability to declare dividends in the fourth quarter for common shareholders, the company’s chairman said in statement issued Tuesday


Dec. 18, 2012 @ 12:34 PM

Patterson's Mill store closing for a month

The Patterson’s Mill Country Store on Farrington Road, which is turning 40 years old next year, will close Dec. 29 to Feb. 3 to allow the owners to clean out the store and revamp the interior.


Dec. 16, 2012 @ 09:49 PM

CAREER BRIEFS

National Association of Home Care & Hospice appoints board member


Dec. 16, 2012 @ 02:32 PM

Local start-up developing solar-powered bike

The Durham-based start-up company Organic Transit is looking to move from prototype into production mode of its three-wheeled, solar- and-pedal-powered hybrid bicycles.


Dec. 13, 2012 @ 07:19 PM

Business briefs

Bella Bean Organics, a business that offers home delivery of organic produce, meat, eggs and other products in the Triangle, acquired the assets of another organic food delivery service, OrganicFood2You.


Dec. 12, 2012 @ 07:40 PM

Biogen Idec, Eisai to partner in RTP

Biogen Idec will be using Research Triangle Park facilities of Eisai Inc., the U.S. pharmaceutical business of a Japanese company, to make oral, solid dose products such as tablets through a partnership announced Wednesday.


Dec. 12, 2012 @ 06:37 PM

Business briefs

Pfizer will pay $42.9 million to North Carolina and 32 other states to resolve allegations the drug maker used unfair and deceptive practices to unlawfully promote its drugs Zyvox and Lyrica, according to a news release from Attorney General Roy Cooper’s office.


Dec. 12, 2012 @ 06:28 PM

CFOs warn of ‘fiscal cliff’ impacts in Duke survey

The majority of chief U.S. financial officers polled in a Duke University survey said the “fiscal cliff” will lead to dramatic slowdowns in hiring and business spending next year.