M2E Power hires CEO
(by IBR Staff
@ 11:26 MST on 01/06)
Boise-based renewable energy and design company M2E Power announced Jan. 5 that Eric Apfelbach has joined the company as president and CEO. Apfelbach, former president and CEO of Virent Energy Systems, Inc., will be responsible for leading M2E through future development, including the commercialization of its products.
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MPC’s Yeros: Gateway acquisition was correct decision in spite of failure
MPC Corp. CEO John Yeros said he and other executives are not second guessing the company’s acquisition of Gateway’s professional computing division in October 2007, a move that in large part forced the company to shut down.
It is by all accounts 2009, the year of change we can believe in. The year of reaching across the aisle, and of bi-partisanship. This seems like a good year for bloggers to hone their efforts and post like adults.
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine forwarded a link to a report published by the Brookings Institution entitled Mountain Megas: America's Newest Metropolitan Places and a Federal Partnership to Help Them Prosper.
Idaho’s newest community college was created with great hope and enthusiasm by Treasure Valley voters. So far the return on investment has been pre-launch cuts, underperforming enrollment, thousands of dollars in wasted and just awful advertising, and a non-functioning embarrassment of a Web site.
If you received a new computer, laptop or printer for Christmas, Computers for Kids and University of Phoenix Idaho Campus are making it easy to recycle your old one.
My first thought when I awoke on Monday morning was one that would surely please the editorial staff at Idaho Business Review: what the heck am I going to blog about this week?
I don’t like that our President was attacked, especially on foreign soil, by foreigners. But to the shoe thrower’s lament, his action demonstrates the difference between the culture of peaceful protest we pride ourselves in throughout the civilized West, and the car bombing, street shooting, suicide mass-killing, terrorist training, Molotov cocktail wielding, and now shoe throwing uncivilized tribal culture of Iraq, and frankly many very similar nations.
Back in my days as a semiconductor industry analyst, I developed a penchant for naming newsletters after rock songs. It was a harmless idiosyncrasy that actually began as a bet with another analyst (I won, by the way).
I know I am contributing to the problem and not the solution, but I’ve quit spending. In defiance of Barney Frank’s (Dem. MA) telling us to start spending to jump start the economy and re-create jobs, I’m cutting my losses and closing my wallet. And I am actually enjoying it.
In case you missed last Sunday’s Idaho Statesman, I heartily encourage you to go online and check out Anna Webb’s excellent story on Boise Valley Habitat for Humanity’s “green team.”
Add two more restaurants to the list of downtown Boise eateries that have closed in recent months. City Grill and Tacabi Asian Grill and Sushi Bar, both on Eighth Street, each shut down this week.
Three times a year I have the great pleasure of writing the quarterly newsletter for one of my favorite local restaurants, the Brick Oven Bistro. I’ll give you a moment to reread the previous sentence just in case you missed the joke. Get it? Moving right along …
It is difficult to finesse in writing the difference between good business badly done, and bad business expertly performed. Lost still is the goal – good business, well done. Such are the options in discussing NCAA Division I Football and its quest for a national champion.
It was not my first flight nor my first e-ticket purchase but United Airlines had me feeling like I was in that twilight zone of rookie travelers with no clue.
Ed Morrison, keynote speaker at the Governor’s Workforce Summit Nov. 19-21 at Boise Centre on the Grove, opened his presentation by taking a break. He encouraged attendees to meet one new person, set up a longer meeting, and subsequently “close the triangle” by e-mailing an introduction and short bio.
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