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Verizon Wireless broadband expands in N.H.

Verizon Wireless has extended its wide-area wireless broadband services in Manchester, Nashua, Concord and more than a dozen surrounding towns. Verizon Wireless provides high-speed wireless broadband network services at average connection speeds of 400 to 700 kilobits per second. Verizon…

Cigna closes 2Q with mixed results

Health insurer Cigna had some good news and some bad news at the end of the second quarter. Quarterly earnings were down from the previous year’s, with the firm still chasing figures from discontinued operations in the second quarter of…

Comcast begins N.H. Adelphia takeover

The long-awaited takeover by Comcast of the bankrupt Adelphia Communications’ holdings in New Hampshire is finally beginning this week. A total of about 100,000 cable TV and high-speed Internet subscribers in some 50 New Hampshire communities will be affected by…

Grandmaison gets new term at Ex-Im Bank

Joe Grandmaison of New Hampshire, a former member of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, has been sworn in to another term on the panel. Grandmaison, who servied on Ex-Im Bank’s board during the Clinton adminsitration from December 2001…

Diversity conference set for September

“Working with New Hampshire Businesses, Creating Opportunities, Building Bridges and Forging Alliances For a More Diverse New Hampshire” is the theme of the fourth annual New Hampshire Diversity Conference, scheduled for Sept. 19 in Manchester. Put together by the New…