Codetrotters Academy, the first programming school in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, announced Monday the graduation of 17 more students from its “Intro to Web Development” course, totaling 34 students that have graduated from the academy since it opened its doors last Fall.
A consortium of the world’s leading independent media agencies have joined forces to launch Local Planet, a new global media agency network. Puerto Rico’s Media Management & Partners among Local Planet’s founders agencies, the group announced Monday.
Calling on Congress to take swift action to create a debt restructuring mechanism and saying resources are “scarce,” Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla confirmed Sunday he has ordered a moratorium on the debt service payments due from the Government Development Bank.
The island economy is in the tank, some 200 Puerto Ricans get on a plane each day to seek opportunities elsewhere, and today the cash-strapped government expects to default on $470 million in payments to creditors.
M. Holland Company, a distributor of thermoplastic resins, has completed the previously announced acquisition of sibling companies Able International Corp. and Tril Export Corp., both headquartered in San Juan.
The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday awarded $112 million to 50 state and territorial workforce agencies, including Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, which received $302,000 and $246,000, respectively to offer reemployment services and eligibility assessments programs for those receiving unemployment insurance benefits. Estimates based on the budgets in the past 10 years […]
More than 2 million people in Puerto Rico interact daily on a social network through their phone, computer or tablet — a trend that continues to rise, affecting the way they communicate, their consumption patterns, information search and content preferences.
With an investment upward of $100,000, The Bookmark is partnering with book publishing company Penguin Random House to launch its second bookstore at the Plaza Carolina shopping center in the municipality of Carolina.
Center for a New Economy representatives on Thursday stressed the urgency for Congressional action, but cautioned that any bill approved in Washington must provide Puerto Rico with a debt restructuring mechanism “that will actually work.”
The U.S. Small Business Administration approved 335 loans for $43.8 million in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands during the first six months of fiscal year 2016, a 19 percent and six percent increase, respectively, over approvals during the same period in 2015, the agency said Wednesday.
Puerto Rico retail sales started 2016 in a slump, reflecting a 3.71 percent year-over-year drop in January, or $113.3 million less than what was generated during the same month in 2015, Puerto Rico Trade and Export reported Wednesday.
A lineup of new retail tenants is opening at two Puerto Rico malls, Plaza del Caribe in Ponce and The Mall of San Juan in the metropolitan area.
The Puerto Rico Tourism Co. on Wednesday confirmed it is doing “everything in its power” to protect visitors to the island as it deals with the spread of the Zika virus, which so far has affected “less than one half of one percent” of the population,” agency Executive Director Ingrid I. Rivera-Rocafort said.
The multi-sectorial “Echar Pa’lante” alliance sponsored by Banco Popular recently joined forces with the Georgia Institute of Technology, to train more than 110 university professors from eight universities on entrepreneurship.
Wireless carrier AT&T unveiled Wednesday it’s new “Puede Esperar” campaign targeting Spanish-speaking Hispanics on the U.S. mainland, who it said are more prone to smartphone distracted driving than the general population, according its research.
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