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Traction Software offers free wiki downloads

PROVIDENCE – Traction Software is offering free downloads of TeamPage5, a five-user, five-projects version of its TeamPage collaboration wiki. Traction TeamPage – a blog...
HEXAGON METROLOGY employees Frank Krazer, left, and Scott Everling test a coordinate measuring machine at the company's headquarters in North Kingstown. /

Foreign owners, familiar names

The manufacturing plant in North Kingstown always puts a Brown & Sharpe label on the industrial tools it manufactures before shipping them out the...
BIG IN SANTO DOMINGO? A trade mission to the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Miami this month will feature Porino?s pasta sauce, among other locally made items. /

Bringing a taste of R.I. to Caribbean nations

Creative Findings LLC got into the food export business after its president, Leonard Rosenblatt, tasted frozen cheesecake on a stick. He was having dinner with...

Firm looks south to find profits

Building on connections made on a trip to Mexico five years ago, an East Providence-based specialty chemicals company has built a successful export operation...
Alexander Lebedev, owner of the National Reserve Bank of Russia, spoke at World Trade Day last May, after which a formal Russia program was established at Bryant. /

Successful trade requires a cultural understanding

Although the Cold War ended nearly two decades ago, the views promoted during that time have left a gap in cultural understanding between the...
U.S. SEN. CHARLES SCHUMER said 
last week that he was confident a new bill 
to impose tariffs on Chinese imports would pass. /

Senators predicts China currency bill will pass

Two U.S. senators who pushed legislation last year for tariffs on Chinese imports predicted last week that a new measure aimed at forcing China...
ELECTRO STANDARDS has seen a considerable payoff from CE certification on one of its instruments. The Sepe family, from left: Mike  Sepe, Ray  Sepe Sr., Brenda Sepe, Ray  Sepe and Ken Sepe. /

Reaping rewards of meeting EU standards

If you are traveling to Europe and hoping to play one of the continent’s favorite sports, don’t take a baseball and bat. Similarly, if...
KAREN M. KENNEY, executive VP of Liberty International transportation and Logistics, is the new president of CONECT. /

A new leader for New England trade alliance

Karen M. Kenney is the new president of the Coalition of New England Companies for Trade (CONECT), a nearly 700-member group that promotes the...

Patents key to creative economy

Increasingly, patents are considered a company’s most valuable asset. So, as we continue to move into a “creative economy,” Rhode Island needs to assess...

Designing economy breeds vitality

A key component of the “innovation economy” is the commercialization of intellectual capital. To wit: the brainiacs have to leave the comfort of the...
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