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Five Questions With: Sara Czyzewicz

Sara Czyzewicz is a co-founder of Olive Interactive LLC, a startup company that recently moved to Providence from Colorado. Czyzewicz and her partner, Arron...

MoFuse wins judges’ choice award at mobile conference

PROVIDENCE – Mobile-technology company MoFuse won a Judges’ Choice Award at Dealmaker Media’s “Under the Radar: Mobility” conference last week. MoFuse won in the Enabling...
UP TO 30 presenters each will make a 90-second presentation to a panel of judges from the Rhode Island business community. /

R.I. Elevator Pitch Competition seeks contestants

PROVIDENCE – Anyone with a business idea seeking feedback from experts and a chance to win cash prizes is invited to participate in the...
THE NEW FACTORY is on Duchaine Boulevard in the New Bedford Business Park, in a building that used to house MultiLayer Coating Technologies, and before that, the advanced printing division of Polaroid Corp. /

Solar technology firm opens New Bedford plant

NEW BEDFORD – Bay State solar-energy technology company Konarka Technologies Inc. has signed a $10 million long-term lease on a 257,000-square-foot building in the...
THE GAP between passenger traffic at the Warwick airport this year and traffic in the same month a year ago narrowed in October, RIAC data show. /

T.F. Green passenger decline slows in October

WARWICK – Passenger traffic at T.F. Green Airport (PVD) last month lagged year-ago levels for the sixth consecutive month, although the gap narrowed slightly,...

TWG: R.I. house prices fall 17% in September

BOSTON – Rhode Island single-family home sales in September fell by a little less than 1 percent from the previous year, but the median...

RIEDC hosting small-business seminars

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Economic Development Corporation will host two free financing educational seminars this month targeting the state’s small-business community. “Navigating the Credit Crunch:...
BRYANT UNIVERSITY President Ronald K. Machtley has played a key role in the positive changes on the Bryant University campus since he arrived in 1996. In addition to new buildings, the school has gone from a deficit to a $4.3 million surplus. /

Communication, planning make success possible

Anyone who visited Bryant College in the early 1990s saw a school badly in need of a new direction. Some campus facilities were looking...
FAMILY FRIENDLY: Chairman Wil Gates, left, and company President Don Leighton, foreground right, are proud of GLA’s ability to retain workers, often for many years. Among the company’s projects was designing the grounds of Lincoln’s Twin River, below. /

Flexibility, staff retention helping GLA prosper

Ask the partners at Gates, Leighton & Associates Inc. (GLA), to explain how their company has prospered through the current economic slowdown, and they...
WILLIAM SHUEY, executive director of the nonprofit International Institute, sits with children from some of the refugee families the Providence agency tries to help get adjusted to new surroundings. /

Helping immigrants feel at home in new homes

Relocating to another country, even under the best of circumstances, is a traumatic experience. Fleeing your native land with nothing but the clothes on...
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