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  • Goodnight, Urquhart call for immigration reform

    Immigration reform can’t wait, says Jim Goodnight, CEO of Cary-based analytics giant SAS.

    Goodnight, along with Richard Urquhart, COO of Investors Management Company; Peter Daniels, Vice President of North Carolina Farm Bureau; and others, weren’t shy about expressing their opinions Wednesday on the immigration stalemate in Washington, D.C.

    The forum was a Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce-sponsored press panel to “to highlight the continued and immediate need for reform for our broken immigration…

  • New plans for Marriott hotel at Centennial Campus will be bigger – and better

    Details for the Marriott-branded hotel and conference center, now formally announced for N.C. State University’s Centennial Campus, show that the hotel will be bigger and better than what the private developers were envisioning even just a year ago.

    The plans are so new, in fact, they don’t even have architectural renderings, yet.

    “We’re just now starting the redesign,” says Mike Haller, senior vice president of Concord Eastridge, the Washington, D.C., firm chosen in 2008 to develop the…

  • Q&A: Teague Campbell law firm of Raleigh on rapid growth

    Teague Campbell Dennis & Gorham, LLP of Raleigh – one of the Triangle’s largest and oldest law firms – is expanding. It has increased its headcount and square-footage in the past few months.

    The firm practices civil litigation, employment law, administrative law and worker’s compensation law. It was established in 1946 and was listed as the 10th largest Triangle law firm by number of attorneys in the Triangle Business Journal’s recent Book of Lists.

    According to Derek B. Maine, the company’s…

  • Raleigh's Salix merges with Italian drug company

    Raleigh’s largest home-grown pharmaceutical company, Salix Pharmaceuticals, will merge with a subsidiary of Italian company Cosmo Pharmaceuticals.

    After the merger is complete, Salix (Nasdaq: SLXP) shareholders will own 80 percent of the new company, called Salix Pharmaceuticals, plc, with Cosmo shareholders owning 20 percent. Cosmo shares are traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange under the symbol “COPN”. Officially, Salix will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Irish-domiciled Cosmo Technologies…

  • How a revamped Apple operates under Tim Cook vs. Steve Jobs

    As Apple makes moves like a massive $100 billion share buyback and relaxes its traditionally granular focus to launch new product categories, the company’s famed “Think Different” mentality built by Steve Jobs is taking on a new meaning under CEO Tim Cook.

    That’s the thesis of a Wall Street Journal piece that parses the differences in leadership between the two Apple chiefs, highlighting its largest acquisition since 1997 when it paid $3 billion to buy Beats Electronics Co. and the simmering down…