Automaker Ford announced Wednesday it will extend the deadline to turn in proposals for its Conservation & Environmental Grants program to April 13, giving interested groups and organizations more time to work on their applications.
Discover and Evertec Inc. announced Wednesday they have entered into an agreement that allows financial institutions participating in the island’s electronic banking network, known as ATH, to issue PIN-based debit cards with signature functionality via the credit card company’s network.
Twenty local companies are in the running to win this year’s U.S. Secretary of Defense’s “Employer Support Freedom Award,” the agency’s highest recognition for employers supporting members of the National Guard and Reserve.
A gift is something that usually comes wrapped in colorful paper that more often than not gets ripped to shreds and thrown into the garbage. But what if those gifts could instead come swathed in colorful, luxurious scarves that could be reused and repurposed time and again?
Triple-S Salud unveiled Tuesday “More than 50 ways to live better,” an initiative that targets the “Baby Boomer” generation to help them live well during their retirement years.
With the goal of providing tools to farmers to make their work on the farm easier and faster, the Agriculture Department recently delivered 15 computers to as many local pig farmers.
The need to build on skills as a way to bring Puerto Rico’s economy back into positive ground will be the focus of at least one of the keynote addresses on the Puerto Rico Conference 2012 agenda slated to take place Mar. 28 at the Conrad San Juan Condado Plaza.
Gov. Luis Fortuño announced Monday the government has granted $103 million in loans through programs run by the Economic Development Bank, under the “Because You Can” initiative that caters to small- and mid-sized businesses and pursues job creation and economic activity.
The local chapter of Students in Free Enterprise, a nonprofit organization that works with business and higher education leaders to motivate university students develop sustainable entrepreneurial projects, has no plans of slowing down on its mission to leave a positive mark on Puerto Rico.
The digitization of media outlets is changing the way people receive their information, which poses a virtually unavoidable challenge to advertising and media buying professionals to leap forward with the advances, or risk having their message fail.
Women-owned businesses are one of the fastest growing sectors of our economy and are growing at twice the rate than any other group in the nation.
International biotechnology company Amgen recently donated $229,329 to the United Way Puerto Rico, half of which was collected by company employees through fundraising activities conducted over the past year.
JetBlue’s bid to launch a nonstop route connecting the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport with the Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C. is being backed by the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, which through an email outreach campaign is urging frequent flyers to voice their support of the carrier’s plan.
While members of the Telecommunications Regulatory Board remained mum on the two-against-one internal battle going on at the agency that lead to a lawsuit at San Juan Superior Court last week, an industry executive spoke out Thursday, saying among other things, the problems were foreseeable.
The seventh annual edition of one of the most notable online security events, InfoSecurity San Juan 2012, is slated to take place Mar. 20, when issues related to cloud and mobile security will be the central topics of discussion.
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