Strictly Business

From Business Today:

Your cable bill is going up. Time Warner Cable says the rising costs of shows it forcing it to raise prices. But one of the biggest price hikes is for its digital video recorder service, which is going up 18 percent. Hmm...

Traffic from the U.S. to Canada in the Niagara region has dropped dramatically in recent years, and a study by a bi-national tourism alliance is calling for action to help stem the decline. Reasons are many, but the biggest seems to be increased security requirements - a passport or other enhanced identification. On the other hand, Canadians continue to visit the U.S., particularly when the Canadian dollar is strong. The Binational Economic and Tourism Alliance calls for better technology at the bridges to speed traffic and better signs and other notification to let people know in advance about the traffic.

The region's only all-women accounting firm is merging with another firm to create the third-largest independent accounting firm in the region. Domachowski, Kempisty & Salvatore, a Clarence firm of all women accountants, is merging with Tronconi Segarra to create a firm with 95 employees, including 52 CPA's. But they're not all women.

Commuters into downtown Buffalo on the Kensington Expressay have watched for the past two years as the Genesee Gateway Building, a block of historic brick buildings, was completely rebuilt into office and retail space. Now the elegant complex is landing tenants. The latest are two investment firms, Winthrop Financial and Pratt Collard Advisory Partners. They join the U.S. Passport Office, Department of State and NBT Solutions in the building.

Who is getting hired, promoted and honored?