Monitoring a growth situation
AVTECH Software Inc., a technology company that has been quietly headquartered in Newport for more than a decade, is raising its local profile in...
Marriott seizing bookings from Expedia.com
Marriott International Inc., the world’s largest hotel operator, has battled back against online travel agents such as Expedia.com to become the eighth-biggest Internet retailer...
MarketingSherpa sets up Microsoft partnership
WARREN – MarketingSherpa says it has collaborated with Microsoft to provide complimentary MarketingSherpa membership licenses to 4,500 independent Microsoft software vendors, totaling more than...
State signs new contract with NIC for Web site
PROVIDENCE – The State of Rhode Island last month signed a new, long-term contract with eGovernment firm NIC to manage its official government Web...
Latin American Film Festival seen as educational
José Torrealba sees the Providence Latin American Film Festival as much more than a venue for showing films, though it is one of the...
EDC-sponsored Web portal aims to grow IT sector
The R.I. Economic Development Corporation has launched an Internet portal to help grow the state’s information technology and digital media sector.
The new Web site,...
Find out client goals, then make the sale
Forget what you’ve been told or read about discovering your prospects’ “needs” as the key to sales success. In business-to-business sales, focusing on goals...
Lynch offers $2.4B plan for lead-paint cleanup
PROVIDENCE – Seeking to lay the groundwork for execution of a Rhode Island jury’s landmark verdict last year against three former lead paint manufacturers,...
6 R.I. groups to benefit from music settlement
PROVIDENCE – Six Rhode Island nonprofit groups have received $2,905 each as part of a multi-state antitrust suit against five of the nation’s largest...
In the war against graffiti, it pays to be unrelenting
When Frank Zammarelli first arrived in downtown Providence two years ago, he said, it was covered in spray-painted scrawl.
“There was so much of it...
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