Covidien fiscal 1Q revenue rises 6.13%
HAMILTON, Bermuda, and MANSFIELD – For the fiscal first quarter ended Dec. 26, medical supply giant Covidien Ltd. (NYSE, BSX: COV) today posted a...
Scouting for a career
Boy Scout Dan Foster, 11, of Narragansett, peers through the viewpiece of a land-surveying tool as professional surveyor Steve Kubiak looks on. Kubiak,...
New tenant is coming to Lincoln’s Albion Crossing
The A.T. Cross headquarters in Lincoln, which went through a purchase-and-partial-leaseback deal in 2007, will get its first new tenant this spring, the building’s...
Warren mill to become AVTECH headquarters
For more than two years, AVTECH Software worked with the City of Newport to put together a plan to buy the former Sheffield School....
Online journal dedicated<br> to philanthropy debuts in R.I.
Rhode Island’s self-styled “first and only online news source dedicated to philanthropy” debuted this month.
Did you know …
• John Clarke, co-founder of Rhode Island...
Venture-backed deals in R.I. <br>grew to $52M in ’08
Deals worth $26.2 million involving local biotech companies pushed venture-based financings in Rhode Island to $51.77 million for 2008 – 12 times more than...
Cornerstone, Saint Elizabeth seek merger approval
Bill Rizzini cared for his wife, Lois, at home for as long as he could. As her Alzheimer’s progressed and her needs grew, he...
Textron debt ratings drop to near-junk
PROVIDENCE – Textron Inc., the maker of Cessna airplanes and Bell helicopters, had its debt ratings lowered by Moody’s Investors Service on concern that...
Massachusetts launches public-access video site
BOSTON – Massachusetts this month launched an online video network that will allow hundreds of community-access television stations from across the state to share...
Cranston firm sees niche for electronics recycling
Discarded computer monitors, televisions and other electronics are ubiquitous in basements and storage closets, the inevitable byproducts of modern innovation.
The complex and sometimes hazardous...