Columbia Business Times Archive

When entrepreneur Lily Dawson started her jewelry design business in January 2009, she launched a website and sold her handmade bracelets, necklaces and headbands at local boutique Elly’s...

Sell-by dates on food products might soon expire, thanks to research and development company Emergent Sensor Technologies. Dr. Craig Weilbaecher and Dr. R. Cody Stringer, both University of...

With a $45.1 million federal grant now in hand, Bluebird Network is hiring the first group of workers for a three-year project that will bring high-speed broadband to...

Teresa Maledy didn’t start off as president of Commerce Bank. She didn’t even start out in banking. But if she hadn’t negotiated for herself, Maledy might still be...

Two Columbia-based companies have picked Aug. 15 to launch a broadband wireless network that will compete with both cellular and wired Internet services such as DSL in the...

When Boone Hospital Center needed state-of-the art communications and security for its new $89 million dollar patient tower, it called on an old friend: Tech Electronics of Columbia....

One year after it launched WiMAX in Kansas City and St. Louis, Sprint quietly expanded the broadband wireless service to Columbia. Marketed as a “fourth-generation,” or 4G, technology,...

Travelers can find plenty of opportunities on the Internet for low air fares and lodging expenses, but when it comes to traveling for work, businesses have found that...

Joplin residents will be a beneficiary of the John Anderson Celebrity Golf Invitational, set for July 10 and 11 at the Country Club of Missouri. In addition, the...

June ushered in hotter temperatures and the announcement that VA Mortgage is expanding in Columbia. Both make me a little uncomfortable. Do not get me wrong; I am...