Meet five entrepreneurs who are succeeding in tough times – Pacific Business News
PBN editors and reporters brainstormed ideas for spotlighting some of these good-news stories and found it to be a relatively easy task to come up with companies that were hiring, expanding and profiting even as the Hawaii economy sputtered

The Buzz: Business news – Times Union Blogs
The Empire State Development Corp. sent out letters this week to more than 6,400 of the 8,000 companies in the Empire Zones program notifying them they remain qualified for the tax breaks that come with the program. About 51 local companies were