David Ortiz
Network Engines geared toward security software
Company: Network Engines
Type of business: Information-security services
Location: Canton, Mass.
Employees: 90
Net Revenue: $14.5 million
In the exploding niche market...
Transportation construction faces long haul
Road work. Bridge work. Plans for runway work. More road work.
That’s essentially the wrap-up of Rhode Island’s transportation situation so far this year....
Advertising Ventures making its mark back home
Name: Steve Rosa
Position: President and
chief creative officer of Advertising Ventures, an advertising and public relations
agency based in Providence's...
Cloud hangs over tourism
Hotels, restaurants report up to 40
percent drop in business
Rhode Islanders who work in the leisure, travel and tourism industry are...
Attorneys warn of changes in employment laws
In the business world, letting go of employees is an unhappy fact of life. But, bosses, the employment lawyers have a few words of...
College students to pay more for health-care coverage
Students enrolled in almost every major college and university in Rhode Island will pay more for their school’s health insurance in the fall, in...
Emissions bill gets mixed reviews
A proposal to tax gas-guzzling SUV’s in Rhode Island and use the money to reward people who buy new fuel-efficient electric hybrid cars with...
Tuning into the customer’s needs
Company: Hippo Inc.
Owner: Martin Gleitsman
Type of business: Audio-production company
Location: 27 Bank St., Warwick
Employees: 2
Annual revenue: Approximately $100,000
You...
Bill goes up in smoke
On June 16, the Rhode Island General Assembly killed a bill
that would have outlawed smoking in restaurants, bars, pool halls, bowling...
Tourism officials decry proposal to hike taxes
Convention officials and people in the hotel and restaurant industry are outraged over proposed legislation that would raise hotel and meal taxes in Rhode...















