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PROVIDENCE WILL KICK OFF the $1.7 million renovation of Kennedy Plaza next week with an official groundbreaking. Above, an aerial rendering of the project. / COURTESY UNION STUDIO ARCHITECTS

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...
"The primary reason CapitolBuddy exists is to give small organizations like my former nonprofit a leg up at the state capitol when going head-to-head with powerful lobbyists." / COURTESY PAUL ROLFE

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...
FROM LEFT: R.I. Airport Corporation Vice President Alan Andrade; AvPorts Line Service Technician Lynn Dadona; URI students David Powers, Ronald Wheeler, Lawrence Higgins, Kyle DellaGrotta and Christopher Clark; and AvPorts Operations Manager David Lucas at Quonset State Airport.

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...
THE DEFENSE SECTOR is the highest paying industry in Rhode Island, with an average annual wage of $110,900 among civilian employees working for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, as shown in Figure 3 above. Figure 2 depicts a breakdown of Rhode Island's private defense contractor industry by number of direct jobs per sector. / COURTESY R.I. DEFENSE ECONOMY PLANNING COMMISSION

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,...
THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE Control and Prevention reported Tuesday that 41 percent of U.S. households use only cell phones and have no landline service. Children were more likely to live in a home that was wireless only than adults, the CDC study showed. / COURTESY CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

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...
"Starting a startup is really a series of guesses or hypotheses about what customers want, and what the potential revenues and costs will be." / COURTESY JON BITTNER

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,...
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