The Puerto Rico Office of the CIO, in conjunction with the Science, Technology and Research Trust, will host the first UX/UI Bootcamp Empirical Design Marathon to develop a style guide that defines best practices for design, flow, navigation and structure of the government’s information systems.
Point Guard Insurance announced Monday it has obtained the required certificate of authority issued by the Puerto Rico Insurance Commissioner’s Office, officially becoming the island’s newest new property and casualty insurer.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Monday the availability of nearly $10.5 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture grants to help agriculture producers enter into value-added activities designed to give them a competitive business edge.
Scrub Island Development Group Ltd., the owner of a posh resort in the British Virgin Islands, has filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Florida bankruptcy court to ward off a request for receivership granted to FirstBank Puerto Rico through which it seeks to collect on a $108 million loan.
Fresh from a recent $30 million investment in a new four-story building housing an expanded emergency room, San Jorge Children's Hospital is readying for yet another service expansion.
eCoupons.com, a direct marketing and technology company founded in 2002 that provides people with savings online, announced it created a directory of Cyber Monday sales to help shoppers navigate today’s online sales.
Telecommunications provider Claro recently announced the addition of 22 new high-definition channels and services to its IPTV paid television platform, launched commercially earlier this year.
Technology is always high up on the wish list during the Christmas season and what better way to save than to take advantage of the available sales and discounts on Black Friday.
For the 6th consecutive year, a 30-foot tall, traditional Christmas tree stands in the Parque Las Nereidas, across the street from La Concha Renaissance Resort, to usher in the holiday season, gifted by Renace Condado, a nonprofit, nonpartisan community action group dedicated to beautifying and improving the high-tourist zone, and co-sponsored by the Ashford Presbyterian Community Hospital.
Prepa Networks, a subsidiary of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority that provides next-generation network infrastructure to carriers and business sectors looking to provide a variety of telecommunications services, will be building new $26 million headquarters in Isla Verde, the company disclosed Wednesday.
Six Puerto Rican entrepreneurs from different industries make up the first “Made in Puerto Rico” series presented by crowdfunding platform Antrocket.com to drive the development of local products and services.
Maritime shipping company Crowley has placed an order for two faster and environmentally friendly liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered, combination container – Roll-On/Roll-Off (ConRo) ships that will be used to serve the U.S. mainland-Puerto Rico route.
The 17th annual Liberty Golf Invitational Tournament raised $165,000 that was awarded to eight community organizations that make significant contributions to Puerto Rico’s well-being.
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) recently announced that its Board of Directors has approved the company’s largest dividend payout ever in the company’s history for 2014: a payout estimated at $1.49 billion to eligible participating policyowners.
Puerto Rico’s financial system — which comprises local and international commercial banks, cooperatives, mortgage and investment companies, and public banks, among others — reported $147.6 billion in assets during the third quarter of 2013, down about 2 percent from the $151.2 billion on record for the same period in 2012.
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