AT&T donates $100K to P.E.C.E.S for alternative schooling
October 15, 2012
AT&T de Puerto Rico recently donated $100,000 to the Community Education Delivery and Service Program (known as P.E.C.E.S. Inc. for its initials in Spanish) to help it strengthen social and educational services offered through its accredited alternative school.
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T-Mobile investing $7M to expand sales network, redesign stores
October 12, 2012
Wireless service provider T-Mobile announced Thursday an ambitious plan to expand its islandwide sales network and redesign its Puerto Rico stores and service centers based on a customer-centric vision, all to the tune of $7 million.
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Dorado Beach, Ritz-Carlton Reserve taking reservations
October 12, 2012
Two months ahead of its scheduled grand opening, the Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve announced this week it has begun accepting reservations to stay at what will be Puerto Rico's most lavish hotel property.
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Ford opens Puerto Rico’s 1st Quick Lane store
October 12, 2012
Ford Motor Company announced Thursday the opening of its first Quick Lane Tire & Auto Center business in Puerto Rico, located at the Caguas Expressway dealer.
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El Mesón Sandwiches lends coffee industry a hand
October 12, 2012
During the month of October, El Meson Sandwiches is celebrating “Manos al Cafetal” (“A Hand to the Coffee Farms”), an initiative to raise awareness about the lack of workers available to harvest Puerto Rico’s coffee crops.
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15 EnterPRize competition semifinalists announced
October 11, 2012
Grupo Guayacán, a Puerto Rican nonprofit venture capital firm, announced Wednesday the selection of the top 15 business proposals submitted in this year’s EnterPRize Business Plan competition.
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Puerto Rico gov’t would ground airport P3 if FAA rejects
October 10, 2012
Puerto Rico Public Private Alliance Authority Executive Director David Álvarez acknowledged Tuesday that if the Federal Aviation Administration fails to give its go-ahead to the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport P3, the government would not pursue another such deal.
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SBA supports record $30.2B in loans in Fiscal ’12
October 10, 2012
With loan volume steadily increasing for the past six quarters, the U.S. Small Business Administration’s loan programs posted the second largest dollar volume ever in Fiscal 2012, supporting $30.25 billion in loans to small businesses, the agency informed Tuesday.
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Claro Chief: Puerto Rico market still ripe for growth
October 9, 2012
Four years after taking over the reins of Puerto Rico Telephone, the island’s largest telecommunications provider, company President Enrique Ortiz de Montellano believes there’s still a lot of work ahead to spur the growth of landline, wireless and paid television markets.
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AES Ilumina powers up Guayama solar energy farm
October 9, 2012
One year after announcing the start of construction of Puerto Rico’s largest solar farm in Guayama, AES Ilumina, LLC and government officials witnessed Monday the start of operations of the $96 million clean energy production project that will sell all of its output to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority under a 20-year power purchase agreement.
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Seaborne Airlines to fly daily, SJ-BVI route starting Dec. 8
October 9, 2012
Seaborne Airlines, the regional carrier based in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, and the British Virgin Islands Tourist Board, in collaboration with the BVI Airport Authority announced Monday the start of daily round-trip flights between the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport to the BVI’s Terrence B. Lettsome International Airport starting Dec. 8.
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Kraft Foods reinvents itself by splitting in 2
October 8, 2012
As it marks its 109th anniversary, Kraft Foods Group is emerging as a new public food and beverage company, splitting into two separate and independent companies: Kraft Foods Group (grocery) and Mondelēz International Inc. (snacks).
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John Dewey College graduates to ‘university’
October 8, 2012
On the 20th anniversary of its foundation, John Dewey College is evolving into Dewey University, becoming the newest institution of higher learning to join Puerto Rico's academic sector.
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OneLink/Liberty merger getting TRB approval next week
October 5, 2012
The Puerto Rico Telecommunications Regulatory Board will sign off on a resolution and order next week approving the proposed $585 million deal through which Liberty Cable would acquire the assets of San Juan’s cable provider, OneLink Communications, News is my Business confirmed.
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Claro deploys direct-to-home fiber optic network
October 5, 2012
Claro de Puerto Rico announced Thursday the deployment of fiber optic infrastructure that will enable it to offer consumers broadband Internet in speeds of up to 50 megabits per second.
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