Financial services provider Citi has chosen Puerto Rico to launch new chip-based technology for its business customers, representing a significant investment in its commercial card issuing business on the island.
Evertec Group LLC, the leader in electronic transaction processing in Latin America and the Caribbean, is in the running for the 2013 Innovation Awards bestowed by Informatica Corporation.
Luz Burgos Berríos, science teacher at Colegio Radians in Cayey, recently won the Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence, bestowed during a workshop for science teachers and school counselors in Río Piedras.
The Puerto Rico Museum of Art announced Tuesday the launch of Blue Star Museums, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 1,800 museums across America to offer free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day 2013.
The U.S. Small Business Administration announced Tuesday the SBA Veteran Pledge Initiative, a commitment by its top national, regional and community lenders to collectively increase their lending activity to veterans by 5 percent per year for the next five years.
The Puerto Rico government has submitted a proposal to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s First Responder Network Authority seeking $1.4 million to develop a public safety broadband network for the island, La Fortaleza’s Chief Information Officer Giancarlo González confirmed Monday.
The Puerto Rico Financial Institutions and Insurance commissioners defended their respective budgets during a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee Monday, when they requested $15.2 million and $10.8 million, to run their respective agencies.
Aon Hewitt announced that it will recruit 100 full time customer service representatives to staff an upcoming expansion at its Puerto Rico call center. To find its new employees, the company will be hosting a job fair from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 24 at its Ponce de León headquarters.
AT&T de Puerto Rico announced Monday it has activated six new 4G mobile Internet cell sites in five towns to boost coverage for area residents and businesses and provide speeds up to four times faster than 3G.
The government announced Monday it will host the first Puerto Rico Tech Summit, a one-day event that brings together leading technological gurus, cabinet members, NGOs and academia for a discussion on the transformation of traditional government services through scalable product development.
The Puerto Rico Treasury Department is currently working on a number of enforcement and automation initiatives to increase the island’s sales and use tax uptake from the current 68 percent while attacking the government’s fiscal shortfall, agency Secretary Melba Acosta told participants of the Puerto Rico Credit Conference Friday.
Delta Airlines is about to make a big landing in New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport this week when it will officially inaugurate its new state-of-the-art facility at Terminal 4, which it has been expanding an upgrading since November 2010 through a $1.2 billion investment.
The Puerto Rico & U.S. Virgin Islands district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration honored José A. Irizarry, president of Centro Gomas del Oeste, with the 2013 Puerto Rico Small Business Person of the Year Award, during the closing ceremonies of Small Business Week on the island late last week.
Innovative tools and Banco Popular advertising campaigns received four awards from the Sales and Marketing Executives Association, during the trade group’s recent digital conference. The bank took recognitions in two categories for digital innovation and use.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the agency is seeking applications from organizations that will provide technical assistance to rural businesses, through the Rural Development’s Rural Business Opportunity Grant (RBOG) program.
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