Invitrogen.(Triangle)
DURHAM -- Carlsbad, Calif.-based Invitrogen plans to buy
CellzDirect, which supplies liver cells and other cell-based products
for drug research, for $57 million. Invitrogen sells more than . . .
Pozen.(Triangle)(Brief article)
CHAPEL HILL -- Pozen expects to hear by mid-April whether its
migraine treatment will be approved by the federal Food and Drug
Administration. In August, the agency requested further study of . . .
Qimonda.(Triangle)
CARY -- Qimonda plans to close its design center in Burlington,
Vt., and consolidate operations at its North American headquarters here.
The German company makes microchips for cell phones and . . .
Arsenal Digital Solutions.(Triangle)
CARY -- Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM plans to buy Arsenal Digital
Solutions, which stores, manages and protects data for other companies.
The purchase price was not disclosed. IBM says it plans to add to . . .
Motricity.(Triangle)
DURHAM -- Motricity, which makes software for downloading games,
ring tones and other content to mobile phones, sold its electronic-books
division and eReader.com Web site to Chatham, N.J.-based . . .
Granville County.(Triangle)(United States. Department of Homeland
Security)(Brief article)
OXFORD -- Granville County commissioners have withdrawn support for
a $450 million animal-disease research center that the federal
Department of Homeland Security is considering building in . . .
RBC Centura Banks.(Triangle)
RALEIGH -- RBC Centura Banks, based here, will change its name in
April, dropping Centura. The trade name will become RBC Bank.
Toronto-based Royal Bank of Canada kept the Centura name when . . .
Nationwide Insurance.(Triangle)
RALEIGH -- Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Insurance plans to close
a call center here by the end of the year, laying off about 60. It will
cut about 40 other local jobs as well, part of about . . .
Optimal Technologies.(Triangle)(Brief article)
RALEIGH -- Optimal Technologies, which makes software that it says
can prevent blackouts and lower utility costs, moved its headquarters
and 20 employees here from Calgary, Alberta. The company . . .
The Castleton Group.(Triangle)(Brief article)
RALEIGH -- The State Bureau of Investigation and the state
Department of Insurance are investigating the finances of The Castleton
Group, which provided payroll, health-insurance and . . .
Working capital.(Triangle)
TRIANGLE REGION
Jobs: 927,838
YTD change: 6,043
Index: 112.5
Source: Employment Security Commission, November. Figures are not
seasonally adjusted. The index is the number of jobs as a . . .
Executive moves.(Triangle)
Raleigh-based Red Hat, which sells and services the Linux
computer-operating system, hired James Whitehurst, 40, as CEO. The
former chief operating officer at Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines . . .
Tax sucks life out of biofuels.(Triangle)
For nearly three years, Stan Bingham has been driving around in a
Volkswagen he modified to run on used vegetable oil, which the
Republican state senator from Denton gets free from the General . . .
Cape Fear Bank.(Eastern)
WILMINGTON -- Cape Fear Bank's board of directors rejected
shareholder Maurice Koury's offer to buy the bank holding company
for $12 a share--a 13% premium at the time of the offer. . . .
Brunswick.(Eastern)
SWANSBORO -- Brunswick plans to close its Hatteras Yachts plant
here this month, idling about 200. The Lake Forest, Ill.-based company
plans to consolidate production of the brand in New . . .
Quintiles Transnational.(Eastern)
WILMINGTON -- Quintiles Transnational plans to open a local office.
The Durham-based contract-research organization, which helps drug
companies perform clinical trials, would not say how many it . . .
Leiner Health Products.(Eastern)
WILSON -- Carson, Calif.-based Leiner Health Products plans to shut
its plant this month and outsource production to India. About 170 will
lose . . .
GAF Materials.(Eastern)
GOLDSBORO -- Wayne, N.J.-based GAF Materials closed its local
shingle plant, idling nearly 110. The company cited the . . .
AT & T.(Eastern)
GOLDSBORO -- The city and Wayne County each approved $100,000 of
incentives for AT & T, which is opening a broadband
technical-support call center. Plans called for the San Antonio,
Texas-based . . .
Population bust.(Eastern)(Statistical table)(Brief
article)
The number of North Carolinians increased more than 17% in the past
10 years, but the populations of seven counties declined. All are in the
East.
Population %
County (000s) . . .
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