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Idaho business leaders say they are generally happy with the unemployment insurance tax cut Gov. C. L. “Butch” Otter signed into law on Jan. 31 — the first bill of the 2018 session – but some wish the state had ...

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If you’ve ever bought a gallon of milk on sale, you could be a scofflaw. But the legal sale of items below cost has moved one step closer. Idaho’s Unfair Sales Act outlaws sales of items below cost. There have ...

A Vancouver company is seeking to build a cobalt processing plant near Blackfoot that could create dozens of jobs paying $70,000 to $80,000 annually. The company, eCobalt Solutions Inc., doing business in the U.S. as Formation Capital Corp., released a ...

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Micron is going in and out of partnerships with other technology companies, but the consensus is that this isn’t a bad thing. So far, the Boise-based company has mutually agreed to end one of its partnerships with chipmaker Intel, while ...

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CenturyLink, a telecommunications company that services much of the state, says the company will make urban areas, not rural, the focus of future broadband development in America, including Idaho, according to the company’s chief financial officer. The company will focus ...

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Did you invest in cryptocurrency in 2017? Be sure to declare your gains or losses properly on your taxes this year, or the federal government might come after you. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency saw a spike in worldwide attention last ...

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POWER Engineers Inc. has acquired Zephyr Environmental Corp. of Texas. Zephyr is a 75-person firm with Texas offices in Austin, San Antonio and Houston, as well as offices in York, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland. POWER, based in Hailey, has a ...

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In an attempt to attract more data centers to Idaho, the Department of Commerce is taking another stab at passing a bill that exempts such facilities from sales and use tax on information technology equipment. This year’s bill is the ...

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Boise startup Black Box VR won Best Startup at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Jan. 9-12, after being named one of 15 CES 2018 Innovation Awards honorees earlier in the week. The company, founded and self-funded by Bodybuilding.com ...

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Megan Stoll got into social media management while “tirelessly trying to find full-time work” during the Great Recession. “I knew I was good at it and it didn’t interrupt my search for a more permanent position somewhere, so it made ...