Some 600 members representing several generations of the Bacardí family gathered at the Cataño distillery to mark the rummaker’s 150th anniversary late last week as part of the global celebrations taking place this year.
A little over a month after turning to online investors for financing, Brahman Industries, the developer of a tsunami and flood shelter system known as the STATIM, announced it has received seed funding of up to $125,000 from Estabrook Ventures to build and commercialize the invention.
As part of the final phase of the Corporations Registry digitization project, Secretary of State Kenneth McClintock announced Wednesday the start of a five-month grace period so that companies with past-due annual reports can become current.
The need that companies have for a strong presence on social media networks and knowing how to make the most out of the benefits of being online is snowballing at such a rapid pace that it is blowing the doors open to new opportunities for entrepreneurship.
Shippensburg, Pa.-based Volvo Rents, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Volvo Group, recently broke into the Puerto Rico market through the acquisition of Casco Rentals in Toa Baja and Encar Rentals Inc. in Lajas.
Even before 2012 started it was already shaping up to be a year of “many challenges” for the island’s economy, Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce President Salvador Calaf said.
The Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association has mapped out its strategy for 2012, when it aims to keep the ball rolling on several key strategies it set off last year.
A total of 37 defendants in the copyright infringement case filed by pop Artist Romero Britto earlier this month will have to pay a combined $205,000 in fines, imposed by the judge overseeing the case after failing to reach an out-of-court settlement agreement.
Miguel Serrano, the local inventor and developer of the STATIM tsunami and flood shelter project, announced Thursday the launching of a global “crowdfunding” campaign to raise the $100,000 in financing he needs to expedite plans to build and commercialize his novel disaster preparedness technology.
One of the most persistent problems of the modern television age — loud commercials — are about to become a thing of the past with the recent passage of the 2010 Commercial Advertising Loudness Mitigation Act.
Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi this week put the spotlight on some of the most popular online retailers, asking them to explain why they will not ship to Puerto Rico arguing among other things that the island must abide by the same federal trade and consumer protection laws as all of the 50 states.
The Private Sector Coalition is calling for the union of all sectors, to change the perception that Puerto Rico is one step from becoming a narco-state maintained by an underground economy into one seen as having the region’s best infrastructure, technology and professionals.
Nearly 50 years of Puerto Rico’s history captured in print and photographs that had been stored in the library of the former The San Juan Star newspaper in Guaynabo are being pulled out of the building this week by a brigade from the University of Puerto Rico.
Under the slogan “Network Power,” online media buying company Advia Network unveiled its service through which customers have access to simultaneous advertising space in multiple local media outlets.
The Menonita General Hospital Health System has been selected by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court as the winning bidder to buy the assets of the San Juan Bautista Hospital in Caguas for $5.1 million, the company revealed Thursday.
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