For the 19th consecutive year, Toyota Foundation is accepting applications for its “Environmental Donations Program,” which provides funding to nonprofit entities that submit proposals aimed at environmental conservation.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday the new Rural Energy Savings Program (RESP) program that that will help rural residents conserve energy and save money on their utility bills.
Blue Coat Systems Inc., a provider of advanced web security solutions for global enterprises and governments, announced Wednesday it has signed an agreement with telecommunications provider WorldNet to offer customized cloud security service to the island’s business sector.
The Puerto Rico Builders Association and Grupo Guayacán Inc. recently joined forces to establish a scholarship program for the trade group’s members through the Guayacán Fellowships Program.
ASC, a Puerto Rico-based insurance company dedicated exclusively to providing compulsory liability insurance for vehicles, announced Tuesday a new service enabling customers to initiate and complete, completely online, the process of submitting a claim, as well as receive payment for the damage the same day of filing a claim.
A trio of Puerto Rico-based, private-sector companies will be hosting the “Puerto Rico Tax Incentive Conference” in New York on June 29, to showcase the tax incentives and competitive advantages that make the island “an ideal investment destination.”
Based on the premise that the residents of Puerto Rico contribute to environmental problems at a higher rate than those of other countries, more than 600 public elementary school students from 11 municipalities participated in the “Reto al cerebro” (“Brain Challenge”) program.
Liberty Business, Liberty Puerto Rico’s business division, has formed an alliance with Microsoft to provide productivity tools and cloud solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises on the island.
With the goal of preparing college students to join the island’s business community, the Young Entrepreneurship Education System (YEES!), in collaboration with the Puerto Rico Products Association, recently held the second edition of the College Business Fair, during which 20 finalists received a combined $135,000 in seed funding for business creation.
The Centros Sor Isolina Ferré and the Amgen Foundation announced recently they will join forces to deliver sciences to more than 350 public high school students in low-income communities through its “Ciencia Móvil” mobile lab.
Graphics and visual communications provider FASTSIGNS, recently inaugurated its third Center in Puerto Rico, located in Carolina.
Starting Dec. 17, Air Canada will open a Montreal-San Juan route, offering customers the option of a direct flight on Saturdays, company officials announced Thursday. In addition to the new route, the carrier is adding a second weekly flight to Toronto starting Nov. 19.
Integration Technologies Corp. announced Thursday it has won the “2016 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award” for Puerto Rico, honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on the software giant’s technology.
Nesher Pharmaceuticals (USA) LLC, a generic manufacturing pharmaceutical company, is returning to Puerto Rico for the third time to interview experienced candidates for new positions in the areas of Operations, Quality and, R&D for its manufacturing facilities located in St. Louis, MO.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has unveiled new rules to expand access to capital for rural businesses, in partnership with the U.S. Treasury Department, USDA Rural Business-Cooperative Administrator Sam Rikkers said Wednesday.
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