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CLEAR COMMUNICATOR: Shirley X. Moore, owner of Be Moore Interpreting LLC, started her business after spending her childhood helping family members who didn’t speak English.
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Everybody’s Business: A venture that displays her many fluencies

(Editor’s note: This is the 50th installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...
LEADING BY EXAMPLE: At the Community College of Rhode Island’s Lincoln campus, instructor Tom Bradley, hanging, demonstrates a rappelling technique during a safety course focused on offshore wind. Above him, closest to the railing, is another instructor, Cory White, and a student, Joseph Fitman.
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Offshore wind training is picking up speed

If the global offshore wind industry is hitting some headwinds, it’s not so obvious at the Community College of Rhode Island. Although situated inland in...
NORMAND DUQUETTE, at right, senior vice president of Starkweather & Shepley Inc, serves as the moderator during one of the panel discussions at Providence Business News' 2024 Cybersecurity AI and Tech Summit at the Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick on Thursday. Participating in the discussion on strategies for controlling external risk is, from left, Peter Reid, Johnson & Wales University assistant professor of information technology; Rick Norberg, Vertikal6 Inc. CEO; Brian J. Lamoureux, Pannone Lopes Devereaux & O'Gara LLC partner; and Kim Keever, Cox Communications Inc. chief information security officer and senior vice president. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Promise, threats associated with AI, cybersecurity take center stage at PBN...

WARWICK – When talking about artificial intelligence, Rhode Island College professor Tim Henry encourages his students to think of the software like an uneducated...

Third R.I. Manufacturing Day career event highlights the unconventional

PROVIDENCE – When Katy Westcott first launched her business, Katrinkles Inc., she didn't think of herself as a manufacturer. The business, which makes tools for...

R.I. Commerce Corp. awards $267K in innovation vouchers

PROVIDENCE – Four small businesses will receive a total of $266,800 from the state's latest round of "Innovation Voucher" funding, R.I. Commerce Corp. announced...

State awards $625M contract to remove, replace 15 bridges

PROVIDENCE – State transportation officials have awarded a $625 million contract to three companies that will oversee a project to remove and repair 15...
A SCREENSHOT of the online Rhode Island broadband map provided by R.I. Commerce Corp.'s ConnectRI program.

R.I.’s broadband plans move forward despite Cox lawsuit

Rhode Island officials say a Cox Communications lawsuit could threaten a federal $108.7 million allocation to improve high-speed internet access in the state, so...

Rite-Solutions, URI to partner in fulfilling 3-year, $2M Naval cybersecurity contract

MIDDLETOWN – Engineering, software and technology company Rite-Solutions Inc. will partner with the University of Rhode Island to carry out a $2 million contract...

North Kingstown records highest property sale, at $9.75M

NORTH KINGSTOWN – A 9-acre waterfront estate at 109 Cottrell Road recently sold for $9.75 million, making it the town's highest home sale on...

REGENT Craft details ‘key step’ for Seaglider passenger trials

NORTH KINGSTOWN – REGENT Craft Inc. has taken "a key step forward" in bringing its Seaglider product to market, the company announced on Tuesday, with...
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