Coldwater Creek to close its stores

Coldwater Creek, a women’s apparel, jewelry and accessory retailer with more than 350 stores nationwide, has filed for bankruptcy and plans to liquidate all inventory and assets and close its stores.

In the last year, the Sandpoint, Idaho-based retailer tried to refinance its debt and sell the business, according to its bankruptcy case, which was filed Friday.

Annica Jordan, assistant manager for the Bend store, said she does not know when the Old Mill District location will close.

“All we’ve been told is liquidation will begin in May,” Jordan said.

She said the store employs 10 people.

One-day sale for Google Glass

Hate ’em or love ’em, an unknown number of Google Glass wearable devices will go on sale for one day only Tuesday for a cool $1,500 — plus tax — on the Internet.

While Google Glass-wearing beta testers have sometimes been targeted in public for having something on their faces that can make surreptitious photographs and videos, demand continues to grow. So today’s one-day sale has the potential to further stoke demand as Google continues to ration out what’s estimated to be a current supply of 10,000 units in circulation.

The sale begins at 6 a.m. and buyers have to be U.S. residents with a U.S. shipping address and be at least 18 years old, according to Google.

Data theft on the rise, report says

The number of Americans who say they’ve had important personal information stolen online is on the rise, according to a Pew Research Center report released Monday.

According to the survey conducted in January, 18 percent of online adults have had personal information stolen such as their Social Security number, credit card or bank account information. That’s up from 11 percent in a July 2013 Pew survey.

The number of adults who had an online account compromised or taken over without their permission — such as email or social media — remained flat at 21 percent.

The survey was done after news broke of Target Corp.’s massive pre-Christmas data breach, but well before last week’s discovery of the “Heartbleed” bug, which has caused widespread worry across the Internet.

— Staff and wire reports