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A New Hampshire House committee heard testimony Tuesday on two bills that would dramatically shift the balance of power among landowners, developers and town planning and zoning officials. House Bill 1508 would grandfather a building project under existing town rules…

Presstek’s move to buy AB Dick and push its digital printing equipment into smaller shops has apparently paid off, according to preliminary fourth-quarter figures. The Hudson-based company took in $68 million in the last quarter of 2005, a 27 percent…

Steve Barba, the recently retired president and managing partner of the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel in Dixville Notch, has been named executive director of university relations at Plymouth State University. Barba, who will take over his new post at the…

Irving Oil has completed its purchase of Lebanon-based Johnson & Dix Fuel Corporation.’s heating oil and propane business and seven of its convenience retail stores in New Hampshire and Vermont, the companies announced Wednesday. The transaction includes Johnson & Dix’s…

An event designed to help teenagers and their parents learn how to be “financially fit” will be held Saturday at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester. The NH Jump$tart Coalition’s Financial Fitness Fair - a free event - is designed…

Bottomline Technologies, a Portsmouth-based provider of payments and invoice automation software and services, has completed its acquisition of UK-based Tranmit Plc, a provider of Web-based purchase-to-pay automation solutions. The addition of Tranmit’s invoice management capabilities enhances the company’s ability “to…

TTexas Instruments said its fourth-quarter profit rose 34 percent, but warned that sales in the current quarter might be disappointing. Revenues increased 14 percent to $3.59 billion in the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2005, from $3.15 billion in the same…

Jerry Shanahan, Enterasys Networks’ former chief operating officer, asked Robert Barber, the former senior vice president of business development at Cabletron Systems, to close a deal before the quarter ended in order to inflate the Enterasys’ revenue, according to Barber’s…

If you took out a mortgage from Ameriquest Mortgage Company during the past six years, you may be entitled to a piece of a $325 million national settlement over the sub-prime lender’s alleged predatory lending practices. The settlement was announced…

New Hampshire, like many other regions in the country, has enjoyed robust growth in the commercial real estate market. The subsequent lending activity, however has prompted federal bank regulators to propose new guidelines focusing on sound risk management practices for…