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Bottomline Technologies’ bottom line is in the red for the fourth quarter and the year as a whole, partly because of the stock options taken by top company officials. The Portsmouth-based payroll software firm reported a net loss of $900,000…

Family ties When White Mountains Insurance announced on August 4 that it was putting up OneBeacon Insurance in a $500 million public offering - complete with the ticker symbol OB - most investors would imagine it as a huge spin-off.…

Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin 100 years ago, and as part of the centenary celebration of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright, poet and novelist is a display at the State Library that also serves as a reminder of the business,…

The U.S. Small Business Administration will be closing its disaster loan centers in New Hampshire on Thursday. The centers will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Thursday. After Thursday, disaster loan assistance applications may be obtained by…

The Portsmouth-based Pax World Funds wants shareholders to agree to move away from the mutual funds' 35-year-old “fundamental” restrictions in social investment policies, opting for more “flexibility” and a wider range of social criteria. If the proxy sent out last…

Lobbyist and longtime elected and appointed state official William Bartlett of Kingston, most recently chairman of the Pease Development Authority, has been named interim president of the New Hampshire Community Technical College at Stratham/Pease while a search is conducted to…

Citizens Financial Group reported a 4 percent increase in earnings for the first half of 2006. The Providence, R.I.-based company, parent of Citizens Bank, had net income for the six months of $1.45 billion -4 percent higher than earnings in…

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Hampshire and 18 other Blues affiliates will be participating in a nationwide launch of an information database providing health-care information to BCBS members. Blue Health Intelligence, or BHI, is designed to provide…

Jewell Towne Vineyards of South Hampton has earned 24 medals, including two golds, in recent national and regional wine competitions. The Finger Lakes International Wine Competition, held in April in Rochester, N.Y., honored the vineyard with a silver medal for…

The Software Association of New Hampshire has announced the opening of nominations for its annual information technology awards. In previous years, the organization, known as SwANH, has handed out the Rookie of the Year and the Most Valuable Player Awards,…