New York-based Crunch Fitness will open its first gym this summer in Puerto Rico, marking its official entrance into the competitive market with a location just outside Plaza Escorial in Carolina, company officials announced Monday.
The Sales and Marketing Executives of Puerto Rico will focus this year’s conference on the development of creative business strategies, which are key to helping companies face and survive the challenges associated with the island’s current economic conditions.
Telecommunications provider Claro and Turabo University announced Monday the start of a partnership to develop projects focused on saving energy and using renewable energy.
Popular Inc. announced Monday the launch of its news Twitter account, @BPOPComm and a revamped online newsroom to which media and the general public will have complete access to obtain information about the financial institution.
The Puerto Rico government released key economic statistics late Friday that reflected a slide in the Economic Activity Index of 2.4 percent year-over-year in February, as well as put the island’s jobless rate at 15 percent that month.
Couple a delectable recipe at an accessible price with the Puerto Rican consumer's love of sweets and it pretty much explains the success behind a cupcake business that suddenly seems to be all over the place.
The second edition of Puerto Rico’s biggest student-run hackathon, “HackPR,” took place over the weekend in Mayagüez, allowing technology amateurs and professionals showcase their skills before big name companies like Microsoft and Google, and also to local start-ups that are in the lookout for new talent that can satisfy their technological needs.
The Foundation for Puerto Rico has designed a new model of shared spaces to be developed in La Ciudadela following the signing of a 10-year lease agreement between Foundation Founder Jon Borschow and Nicholas Prouty, CEO of Putman Bridge Funding, LLC., which owns the Santurce complex that will house the venture.
The similarities between Ireland and Puerto Rico are so numerous that Ireland's case is of interest for our island.
More U.S. and foreign filming producers are shooting in Puerto Rico as a result of the incentives package and other benefits provided by the Commonwealth, as in the case of Crackle, Sony’s multi-platform entertainment network, which last week finished the second season of its original series, “Cleaners,” according to Demetrio Fernández, executive director of the Puerto Rico Film Commission.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program announced recently it has extended the deadline to apply for Value-Added Producer Grants to April 8, said José Otero-García, agency state director for Puerto Rico.
A month after launching its “contract-free” business model, T-Mobile announced a new $20 million investment to upgrade its Puerto Rico 4G LTE infrastructure and add 100 new jobs to its payroll, a high-ranking parent company executive said Thursday.
The U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday the latest population estimates for the municipalities of Puerto Rico, which showed, among other findings, that from July 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013 the population declined in 68 of the 78 towns.
The Plaza Carolina shopping center will have three new tenants before year’s end with the arrival of the Sports Authority, A’gaci and the first Men’s Warehouse location in Puerto Rico, company officials announced Thursday.
Telecommunications carrier Claro Puerto Rico announced the opening of a new store at the Plaza del Sol shopping center in Bayamón, representing the first of several outlets slated to open this year, company officials said.
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