Mobile technology

Local venture first to transform Apple's iPhone into a walking-tour guide

Call it what you will: a wireless phone, music player, video player, camera, hard-drive, map or GPS. A trio of Charleston businessmen have developed their own term for the latest version of the iPhone that Apple Inc. launched over the summer: tour guide. Longtime wa... Read More

Selling Slavery

Area business people finding money in long-shrouded history

Charleston has long made its fortune by bringing people here. Centuries ago, it was slaves. Today, it's tourists. Both have been thriving industries, though Charleston promoters have long dressed up or covered up the legacy of human bondage in the Lowcountry. Read More

Selling slavery

Charleston has long made its fortune by bringing people here. Today, it's tourists. Centuries ago, it was slaves. Read More

'I'll see ya'll later': Reporter heading to NYC

Tourism

"Y'all. Y'all ... y'all ... y'all ... y'all." They just kept coming. It was five years ago this week and I was listening to Gov. Mark Sanford address Charleston's tourism leaders for the first time. To a "swamp Yankee" from Connecticut who had only been to South Carolina for two days of job interviews, the folksy colloquialism seemed a strange choice for such a formal setting. Read More

Judge: Parish deserved long prison term

Convicted economist Al Parish deserved his 24-year prison sentence because he took advantage of people he'd known for years and didn't act out of financial necessity or after a life of neglect, "unlike many criminal defendants," the sentencing judge wrote Wednesday. Read More

Full speed ahead at Patrick

Randall Goldman is not familiar with the phrase "Leave well enough alone." Goldman, managing director of Patrick Properties LLC, is in the midst of quarterbacking three major redevelopments and is about to host a groundbreaking for a new Mount Pleasant office building. Read More

Nucor, SeverCorr settle lawsuit

For 18 years, John Bell developed metallurgical techniques that helped mold Nucor Corp. into one of the country's most powerful steel makers, cooking up many strategies at the company's Berkeley County mill. When he resigned in 2006, he took trade secrets to a competitor, according to Nucor, which has been fighting a legal battle with Bell and his present employer for almost two years. Read More

Nucor settles lawsuit against former manager

Nucor said it was precluded from discussing the financial terms of the settlement with John Bell, its former melt shop manager in Huger, and SeverCorr, a Mississippi steel mill operator started by a former chief executive officer at Nucor. Charlotte-based Nucor alleged Bell took proprietary information about its steelmaking processes when he left the company in March 2006 to join SeverCorr. Read More

Santee Cooper gets even greener

Utility OKs purchase of additional 1% of power from renewable source

In a bid to replace coal with something more "green," state-owned Santee Cooper approved a plan Monday to buy an additional 1 percent of its power from an outfit that generates electricity by burning wood or landfill fumes. The Moncks Corner-based utility did not set a deadline for buying the so-called green energy but Mollie Gore, corporate communications, said it already is looking at potential suppliers. Read More

Santee Cooper to purchase more green power

In a bid to replace coal with something more "green," state-owned Santee Cooper approved a plan Monday to buy an additional 1 percent of its power from an outfit that generates electricity by burning wood or landfill fumes. Read More