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At home in mansions, office designs
Even if you’ve never heard of A4 Architecture Inc. of Newport, you may be familiar with some of founder Ross Sinclair Cann’s work.
Before he...
Chafee set to exit ‘twilight zone’
As a candidate, Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee’s opposition to the pending $75 million 38 Studios deal was both a pillar of his platform and...
Crowdfunding potential unrealized where needed most
Before crowdfunding changed the world of startup investing, the federal government was supposed to change the rules of crowdfunding.
With the Jumpstart Our Business Startups...
Colleges fertile ground for digital marketing
Marketing firms are going back to college.
Not for classes or to brush up on a foreign language, but to capitalize on the growing higher...
Manufacturing ‘maker’ space designed to spur innovation
As the Maker Movement spread across the country, Todd Thomas became one of its leading supporters in Rhode Island.
An architect, Thomas sees the...
Leung makes good call on Wireless Zone partnership
Selling pagers from a small store in Randolph, Mass., 21 years ago, Ray Leung couldn’t have imagined the iPhone 6. Back then, phones had...
New leaders coming to gov’s office, City Hall
Alec Beckett, creative partner at Nail Communications Inc., had a nervous election night on Nov. 4.
His Providence advertising agency, which usually stays out of...
At what cost toxic-waste cleanup?
It’s not surprising that businesses facing the bill for a $40 million Blackstone River toxic-waste cleanup consider the federal Superfund project overkill.
They’re not the...
Rafaelian keeps ‘dream job’ as Alex and Ani chief
It has been a tumultuous year for Cranston-based jewelry maker Alex and Ani and its founder, Carolyn Rafaelian.
A March ouster of CEO Giovanni Feroce...
At odds over waterfront development
Is Providence better off than it was 20 years ago?
At times, the 2014 mayoral race has felt like a referendum on that unusual local...
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