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City to break ground on Kennedy Plaza renovation on July 15
(Updated, July 10, 8:51 a.m.)
PROVIDENCE – The $2.4 million renovation of Kennedy Plaza will begin Tuesday, July 15, with an official groundbreaking ceremony, city...
Five Questions With: Paul Rolfe
Paul Rolfe is the founder and CEO of CapitolBuddy, a spring 2014 Betaspring Fellow company based in Providence. Rolfe spoke with Providence Business News...
GTECH extends Germany lottery contract
PROVIDENCE – GTECH Corp. has signed a two-year agreement extending its contract with Westdeutsche Lotterie GmbH & Co. OHG, known as WestLotto, in Germany.
The...
Elorza proposes citywide fiber-optics for Providence
PROVIDENCE – Mayoral candidate Jorge Elorza has proposed a citywide fiber-optic network capable of delivering Internet speeds up to 100 times faster than the...
Banneker receives Raytheon supplier award
NORTH SMITHFIELD – Supply chain management company Banneker Industries Inc. has earned its sixth consecutive supplier excellence award from Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, recognizing...
URI engineering students win FAA competition
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Five University of Rhode Island students won first place in last month’s national federal Aviation Administration competition seeking prototype designs intended...
Defense industry added $3.75B to R.I. economy last year
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Rhode Island’s defense industry contributed $3.75 billion to the state’s economy in 2013 and supported as many as 33,806 jobs statewide,...
Study: More Americans giving up landlines for cell phones
WASHINGTON – Two in five American households responding to a survey by the National Center for Health Statistics said they had no landline telephone...
Five Questions With: Jon Bittner
Jon Bittner is the co-founder and CEO of Betaspring alum Splitwise, a Providence company that has developed an expense-sharing app that last year was...
Amazing Charts outscores other EHRs for usability
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Amazing Charts 7.0, the latest release by electronic health record developer that last month was certified as a 2014 Complete EHR,...














