If your company is recruiting professional employees and you are considering employing a foreign national, H-1B visas are available this fiscal year to hire those employees.The H-1B visa allows professional people working in specialty occupations to work for businesses in…
Public Service of New Hampshire is asking permission from the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission to borrow up to $600 million for up to 40 years — the largest such request the company has made at one time in absolute…
The Ocean Bank name, which was first used in 1854 by a bank in Kennebunk, Maine, and has replaced the name of more then a dozen New Hampshire banks in various mergers over the last two decades, will be no…
The second New Hampshire Summit on Work and Family will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, June 7, at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord.The summit is being put together by UNH Cooperative Extension, in conjunction with…
Remember last year the Legislature passed a bill requiring that all hotels and restaurants owners post a bond in case they didn’t pay up on the rooms and meals taxes they collected? Well, they can forget about it. The Senate…
New Hampshire will receive $660,560 as part of a $26.5 million national settlement with investment firm Merrill Lynch resolving issues of improperly licensed sales associates, the state Securities Bureau said.New Hampshire was part of a multi-state taskforce investigation that began…
Bottomline Technologies’ bottomline changed from red to black last quarter, but whether that justifies the recent run up in stock price remains to be seen.The Portsmouth-based software payroll firm posted a net income of nearly $1 million, or about 3…
NHBR’s editors recently met with businesspeople from around Manchester to get their take on how the area’s economy is faring and what their expectations are for the future.The participants were:• Monica Zulauf, executive director, Manchester YWCA• Mike Reed, president, Stebbins…
Prices at the pump in New Hampshire are continuing their march up from last week.As of Wednesday, a gallon of regular gas in Manchester was about $2.75, a penny higher than the previous day and 3 cents higher than last…
CPEX Pharmaceuticals has abandoned its attempt to develop Nasulin, a nasal insulin spray and one of the company’s key potential products when it was spun off from Bentley Pharmaceuticals in the summer of 2008.The Exeter-based firm buried the news in…
