Sacred Heart University (USC) announced Monday it will host its first Content Marketing Summit with the goal of educating about how to create digital content of interest to help strengthen the presence of a brand or business on social networks.
Seventeen local companies will participate in this year’s edition of Expocomer, an international multi-sector expo slated for Mar. 22-25 looking to network, expand operations and secure business deals, Puerto Rico Trade and Export Executive Director Ricardo Llerandi announced Monday.
The Department of Economic Development and Commerce announced Sunday the signing of an agreement of understanding between a local and a China-based company to develop recycling projects with an associated investment of $20 million.
Johnson & Johnson announced scholarships to 50 nursing students at the University of Puerto Rico as part of a social impact program designed to build capacity in the health system.
S&P Global Ratings on Thursday removed its CreditWatch negative placement on Autopistas Metropolitanas de Puerto Rico, LLC and affirmed its 'BBB-' rating on the company’s $435 million senior secured notes due 2035. The outlook is negative.
Focused on continuing to support local economic development, Banco Popular announced the opening of a third call for entries for entrepreneurs wishing to participate in the “StartUp Popular” program.
The U.S. Small Business Administration announced Thursday it has selected Víctor Miguel Rivera-Solanas and María Paula Rivera-Solanas, the creators of the Atención Atención educational TV show for pre-schoolers, this year’s “Small Business Person of the Year” for Puerto Rico.
Telecommunications company Claro announced Thursday it will offer three free months of its ClaroTV service to existing mobile and fixed service customers.
The Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust and the Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association hosted a roundtable Wednesday to provide details on Quest 2017, an event that promotes the exchange of best practices to optimize the island’s competitiveness.
Harvard University professor and Nobel Prize in Economics in 2007, Eric S. Maskin, will present his conclusions on the benefits of public-private partnerships to support healthy economic development during a forum on Mar. 23.
With the goal of promoting the next generation of leaders in bioinformatics and technology development in the healthcare industry, the VarMed Management Group and the Increasing Diversity in Interdisciplinary Big Data to Knowledge (IDI-BD2K) of the University of Puerto Rico will carry out the first Healthcare Innovation Replicathon.
Recruiting and outsourcing firm BMA Group is partnering with tech startup TalenTank to provide a new service that identifies employees’ core values and monitors company culture to improve employee engagement and increase culture-fit hires, the company announced Tuesday.
Flanked by dozens of producers, artists, entrepreneurs and employees, Ticket Center — a local business dedicated to selling entertainment and sporting events in Puerto Rico — marked its 20th anniversary by inaugurating Tuesday its new facilities at La Terraza at the Plaza Las Americas mall in Hato Rey.
Caguas-based Oscar Super Cash & Carry announced Tuesday it will make its resources available to business incubators to serve as a platform for social innovation to strengthen smaller businesses and in turn, the foundation for Puerto Rico’s social and economic development.
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