VANCOUVER, WA-A Seattle startup involved in photonics, the science of manipulating and harnessing light, is planning a manufacturing plant here that could employ 1,000 workers within five years

MINNEAPOLIS- Minneapolis-based lender succeeds where behemoth Bank of America and others have failed. Bank eyeing branch expansions in Detroit food marts next.

DALLAS-Prentiss Properties Trust is paying $63.3 million for an Oakland, CA, office and development site, action that closely follows a a planned disposition of the REIT's final holdings in Houston and Dallas. The move is not an indication that the Dallas-based REIT, set to be acquired in November by NJ-based Mack-Cali, is reducing its TX presence.