URI biotech building to open with vacant top floor
The effort to create a second quadrangle on the University of Rhode Island’s Kingston campus – this one surrounded by technology and life science...
Low rates not leading to refinancing boom in R.I.
For all the talk about a mini refinancing boom in recent weeks because of a sudden, steep drop in mortgage rates, Kurt Noyce hasn’t...
Panel: Focus, planning key to survival of IT firms
Considering how the 2001 recession ravaged the information technology and digital-media sector, it would be understandable if people working in those industries are especially...
In the VC world, funding goes to the fittest
In metro markets like Boston, it is said that a venture investor looks at 100 deals, spends time on 10 and commits capital to...
Mass. unemployment rate reaches 5.9% for November
BOSTON – The Mass. Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development says the state’s unemployment rate increased from 5.5 percent in October to 5.9...
Report: R.I. hospitals’ fiscal performance improves
PROVIDENCE – A report by the R.I. Department of Health says that the financial performance of the state’s 13 hospitals improved in 2007.
Profitability increased...
Hasbro drops lawsuit against Scrabulous
NEW YORK – Pawtucket-based Hasbro Inc., the world’s second-largest toy maker, has dropped a trademark and copyright-infringement lawsuit against two Indian brothers accused of...
Web makes survival easier
With big companies vaporizing jobs by the millions, self employment is becoming an option – and often a necessity – for more American’s than...
Mag touts R.I.’s marine industry
Rhode Island “is considered a great place to run a marine business” because of its small size and exceptional government cooperation, according to a...
RI Nexus spreads tech-potential word on campus
James Lamb had just finished his associate’s degree at the New England Institute of Technology (NEIT) last year when the school’s director of career...
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