LIN TV Corp. announces departures of CFO, VP
PROVIDENCE – LIN TV Corp. last week announced that Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Bart Catalane will leave his post, citing a...
Coupon marketing is hot
Dear Dan: I’m looking for ways to stimulate more business, and coupons come to mind. Is this a good time to be thinking about...
Hotels weigh costs of Internet
Just a few decades ago, most hotel guests were lucky if they found their rooms equipped with a color television set. At some establishments,...
Steamship society goes online to ID old vessels
The word “Wikipedia” would have been only gibberish in the late 1930s, when Edward O. Clark began his lifelong hobby of photographing steamships, ferries...
Information sector bright spot in gloomy employment report
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s information sector added 100 new jobs in June, the R.I. Department of Labor and Training announced in an otherwise gloomy...
State to expand program to recycle electronics
PROVIDENCE – A new state law will expand Rhode Island’s system for collecting and disposing of old computers, televisions and other electronics, giving manufacturers...
KVH gets another order for fiber-optic gyros
MIDDLETOWN – A Norwegian company has placed another big order for more of the precision fiber-optic gyroscopes made by KVH Industries Inc., bringing the...
Rhode Islanders line up for sold-out iPhone 3G
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Islanders displayed a voracious appetite for the new iPhone 3G earlier this month, snapping up Apple Inc.’s entire local supply of...
BIF-4 Summit to be held at Trinity Rep. this fall
PROVIDENCE – Clay Shirky, author of “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations,” and Jason Fried, founder and CEO of the Web...
Mikija launches site for sale of papyrus handbags
NEWPORT – Papyrus-handbag designer Mikija has launched a new e-commerce Web site.
The site – www.mikija.com – features an extensive selection of...
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