A slice of Silicon Valley: Palo Alto, Calif.-based MetricStream announced this morning it has opened a Baton Rouge office to support existing customers and cultivate new ones. MetricStream provides technology and management services to industries including financial services, health care, energy and utilities, and manufacturing. The firm’s other regional offices in North America are in New York City, Atlanta and Toronto. “MetricStream recognizes that the local job market has an abundance of experienced professionals and new graduates, and sees enormous potential to tap into that talent pool, to create local jobs,” says Collin McQuiddy, MetricStream’s senior director of professional Services, in a prepared statement. Read the full statement here.
Finding a successor: Louisiana Tech University’s alumni, employees, students, faculty and friends will all have a chance this week to consider which candidate they want to take over from retiring President Dan Reneau. Two finalists in the Louisiana Tech presidential search are set to be publicly interviewed on the Ruston campus Wednesday. The search committee will decide Thursday who to recommend to be interviewed by the University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors on Dec. 4 in Baton Rouge. The (Monroe) News-Star has all the specifics here.
Order up: U.S. companies in October increased their orders of machinery and equipment by the largest amount in five months, a hopeful sign for future economic growth. Orders for core capital goods, considered a proxy for business investment, rose 1.7% in October, the best showing since a 2.3% rise in May, the Commerce Department reports today. Orders in this category had slowed beginning in the spring, acting as a drag on overall economic growth. Total orders for durable goods were unchanged in October at $216.9 billion following a 9.2% jump in September. Read the full story here.
Today’s poll question: Did you buy anything online on Cyber Monday?
