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The first quarter of 2006 was the best opening quarter in four years for New England businesses seeking venture capital, according to the recent MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based on data from Thomson Financial.…

New Hampshire residents left without phone services after the recent flooding can use free emergency calling stations set up by Cingular Wireless at its retail locations at the Rockingham Mall in Salem, the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua and the…

Pennichuck Corporation’s annual costs to fend off a takeover attempt by the city of Nashua is multiplying -- literally. This year, the company expects to spend $2.3 million to $2.4 million in legal, consulting and other costs to fight Nashua’s…

Spokesmen for two competing energy projects have announced plans to construct or buy wood-fired power plants in the North Country. New Energy Capital Corp. and Tamarack Energy are gearing up a partnership behind a plant or plants that would burn…

Lawmakers will make decisions this week and next that could deeply affect the natural gas-fired 720-megawatt Granite Ridge power plant in Londonderry and the 525-megawatt Newington Energy plant on the Seacoast, which uses the same fuel. A conference committee met…

BrandPartners Group closed its first quarter ending March 31 with a significant drop in revenues. The firm said it had revenues of $11.1 million for the period, $3.5 million less than the same quarter a year ago. The Rochester-based diversified…

A decrease in revenue and an increase in costs and expenses contributed to an overall net loss for Environmental Power Corp. In its first-quarter 2006 report, Portsmouth-based Environmental Power officials announced a net loss of $1.4 million, which translates into…

Rock of Ages released its first-quarter 2006 financials, reporting a net loss of a little more than $7 million, slightly greater than first-quarter losses in 2005. Loss per diluted share remained about the same, with a 95-cent loss per share…

With the May 15 open enrollment deadline arriving today for the Medicare Part D prescription program, the process has proven to be fraught with headaches not only for patients, but for health-care providers as well. More than 40 different Medicare…

Executives of Riverstone Networks will be fully insured against any shareholder lawsuits, at the expense of the shareholders, thanks to a May 9 ruling by a Delaware bankruptcy judge. Judge Christopher Sontchi ruled that the Riverstone’s shell company - known…