Preston hears earful on health care
With small businesses staggering under the increasing financial burden of providing health insurance to their employees, business owners are looking to the federal government...
Web site brings technology to ancient business form
An online bartering Web site launched by three Rhode Island entrepreneurs aims to bring an ancient form of business transaction into the 21st century.
Barterthing.com...
Brown picks new dean of medicine and life science
An infectious-disease specialist who is currently chair of the Department of Medicine at Brown University has been chosen to succeed Dr. Eli Y. Adashi...
R.I. a leader in tech wage growth
On a dollar basis, Rhode Island saw the largest annual growth in technology-job wages of any state nationwide from 2005 to 2006, according to...
DeVivo named BankNewport IT vice president
Roger A. DeVivo has been named vice president of information technology at BankNewport. He will be responsible for all aspects of the bank’s...
Creating high-wage jobs in R.I.
To the editor,
I believe that every Rhode Island company and every Rhode Island worker can successfully transition to a 21st-century innovation economy that creates...
National Grid wins national energy-efficiency awards
WALTHAM, Mass. – National Grid’s energy efficiency programs garnered three national awards this year from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of...
Entercom names new GM for WEEI Sports Radio
BALA CYNWYD, Pa., and PROVIDENCE – Entercom Communications Corp. today named Joe Harrington to serve as vice president and general manager of Sports...
State OKs angioplasties at Kent Hospital;<br> Landmark asks to stop doing heart...
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health yesterday agreed to allow Kent Hospital to begin performing angioplasties without setting up a cardiac surgery program.
In...
Summer Infant buys Basic Comfort baby products
WOONSOCKET – Summer Infant Inc. has completed its acquisition of Basic Comfort Inc., a Denver-based maker of infant comfort and safety products, the company...
