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“Family Meetings: Improving Communication -- Separating Emotions of Family From Business Discussion” will be the focus of the next University of New Hampshire Center for Family Business event. Scheduled for held Wednesday, Jan. 25, at The Yard Restaurant in Manchester,…

Bottomline Technologies, a provider of payments and invoice automation software and services, has acquired Chicago-based Visibillity Incorporated, a provider of legal e-billing solutions specializing in the insurance industry. The acquisition of Visibillity further bolsters the Portsmouth company's position as a…

Manchester-based Segway Corporation, maker of the Segway Human Transporter, has named Brian Cohen chief financial officer and Jason Barton vice president of North American Sales. In his new role as CFO, Cohen, a certified public accountant, will be responsible for…

Hampton-based Fisher Scientific shut down a facility outside Pittsburgh, Pennsaylvania, last week, causing 55 workers to end the year with their last paycheck. The 46-year-old plant, which once employed 500 people making laboratory equipment and furniture, was one of the…

Sales growth in New Hampshire’s restaurant industry is expected to exceed that of the other New England states this year, according to the National Restaurant Association’s 2006 Restaurant Industry Forecast. Projected sales of $1.96 billion mean a 5.4 percent increase…

Governor John Lynch has asked for approval of two separate grants totaling up to $13 million to upgrade worker skills, create a northern New Hampshire manufacturing innovation program, and to initiate new training programs to diversify business sectors in New…

fEqualLogic of Nashua has earned worldwide recognition for its PS200E storage area network solution. The company’s PS200E was named "Best iSCI SAN" by InfoWorld Media Group as part of its annual Technology of the Year Awards. "EqualLogic’s PS200E is simply…

New Hampshire banks are in pretty good shape, according to the last quarterly report of the Bank Analysis Center. New Hampshire banks’ nonperforming loan ratio fell to less than half a percent at the middle of 2005, -- one of…

Should large employers in New Hampshire be required to provide health-care coverage for their employees, and pay the state if they don’t? And should they be required at least to report the coverage they do provide? That is the question…

A spring water firm filed suit in federal court last week charging that Peterborough officials quashed its effort to expand while helping a rival company that several town officials had an interest in. Monadnock View Holdings, parent company of Highland…