Telecom seminar Froday to focus on compliance issues

A telecommunications provider is hosting a free seminar to help businesses use networking systems to meet healthcare, financial and general business compliance guidelines.

Tucson company helps machines 'talk' to each other

The Industrial Age has merged with the Information Age on factory floors around the world, as industrial machines increasingly “talk” about their health and work with their human masters.

Sale of Willcox grower Eurofresh gets OK

Texas-based NatureSweet Ltd. has acquired most of the assets of Willcox-based tomato grower Eurofresh Farms in a bankruptcy auction, as proposed under the company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in January.

Senate vote: OK $85 billion cuts, avert shutdown

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate approved legislation Wednesday to lock in $85 billion in widely decried spending cuts aimed at restraining soaring federal deficits — and to avoid a government shutdown just a week away.

Twinkies could be back in stores by summer

NEW YORK — A bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved the sale of Twinkies to a pair of investment firms, one of which has said it hopes to have the cakes back on shelves by summer.

Fitz Blog: The bull in the bull market

Market rallies

Tucson's Brio Tuscan Grille closing

First time the chain has closed a location.

New Tucson store sells 'fresh' cosmetics

Lush, the "delicatessen of the skin-care world," is opening its first Tucson store today at La Encantada. The 722-square-foot store is looking to employ 20 to 30 part- and full-time workers.

Tucson names business liaison to Mexico

Tucson now has a business liaison to Mexico.

Arizona bankruptcy filings fell in 2012

Bankruptcy filings in Arizona declined for the second-straight year in 2012, falling more than 22 percent from 2011, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

Biz tip of the week: Reversing negative perceptions

Perception vs. reality. This observation is used to explain all types of irrational and inconsistent behavior.

AZ jobless rate drops below 8%

PHOENIX - Arizona's unemployment rate dipped below 8 percent last month, the first time that's happened in four years.

Real-estate firm buys Tucson building

BH Pella Drive, LLC, has purchased the former Pella Corp. building (also known as Aero Business Park) in Tucson for $5.2 million. The company is an affiliate of Los Angeles-based commercial real-estate investment firm BH Properties.

Report: Arizona to add 61K jobs next year

PHOENIX — It certainly won't match the boom years of the last decade.

Showup.com calls it quits

The group tiptoed into Tucson, but the idea never quite caught on.

Federal stimulus: Helping banks more than borrowers?

JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, the nation’s largest mortgage lenders, said Friday they won’t make home loans much cheaper for consumers, even as they reported booming profits from that business.