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BNE on Facebook

Jan-28-2009 — Many Companies, organizations and attraction around Buffalo are jumping on the Facebook “page” wagon. This application allows entities the chance to market themselves, through text, pictures, discussion boards and video uploads, in an interactive way. The Buffalo Niagara Enterprise is no stranger to the application, and has made excellent use of its interactive features to show people just what the company does through its various types of media on the page.

Bright Spots in Economy

Jan-26-2009 — Kucharski, president and chief executive of Buffalo Niagara Enterprise, was thrilled to hear Gov. David A. Paterson single out Buffalo’s fast-growing bioscience industry as a bright spot in the economy.

Buffalo Named a Top Travel Destination

Jan-23-2009 — Buffalo is a gold mine of late 19th/early 20th century urban design. This lakeside city harbors an unexpected discovery around every corner, offering a staggering range of cultural resources as well as some of the country's most captivating architecture. Nestled between the pristine network of city parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted are National Historic Landmarks by Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan and H.H. Richardson. Extraordinary examples of Victorian, Beaux-Arts, Romanesque and Ar

America's 25 Strongest Housing Markets

Jan-16-2009 — This quiet mountain metropolis of just over 675,000 saw none of the wild speculation of former boomtowns like Las Vegas or Miami, nor the ruined fortunes that followed. Of course, Little Rock isn't completely isolated from the recent housing downturn. There are 200 foreclosures in the works, according to Trulia.com, an online real estate data provider. Developers are scrapping new housing projects, and sales activity froze in the third quarter.

Forbes ranks Buffalo as No. 4 housing market

Jan-13-2009 — Buffalo ranks fourth among the 25 strongest housing markets in the nation, according to a Forbes magazine report. It's an honor area home owners and real estate agents can take some comfort in, although reflects the region's lack of a run-up in values

Hauptman closer to breast cancer cure

Jan-12-2009 — A Buffalo researcher at Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute has moved a step closer to a cure, and possibly the prevention, of the most common type of breast cancer. Debashis Ghosh, a senior research scientist, reached a milestone by determining the third and last structure of an enzyme used by the human body to create estrogen, work that will enable further research to develop drugs to specifically target estrogen-dependent tumors in breast cancer.

Newcomer tells us why we like it here

Jan-09-2009 — Ed Lattman is among other things, a reminder of why we live here, despite it all. Lattman is that rarest of creatures, a corporate executive lured here six months ago by an appealing job. He left a dean’s position at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore to become CEO at Hauptman - Woodward, the bioinformatics research center.

UB Supercomputer Goes Green

Jan-09-2009 — In the world of supercomputers, practical considerations like energy consumption traditionally have been overshadowed by the emphasis on high performance. But as energy costs have increased, computational scientists at UB’s Center for Computational Research (CCR) have found a way to do more cutting-edge science while consuming less power.