New Hampshire Business Review - March-11 2011

The state's WARN Act -- two years old and only used once to no effect -- may be rolled back a bit.The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, enacted in 2009, was supposed to go above and beyond the federal…

While New Hampshire's high-technology industry has been known to be an economy leader for more than a decade, manufacturing - often eulogized as being long gone - has proven to be as strong as ever, with both industries propelling New…

A recent Men's Health magazine article ranked the 100 most socially networked cities in the country. Manchester -- the only New Hampshire city on the list -- could have done a lot worse, but it could have done better, according…

In the last two weeks, CPEX Pharmaceuticals shareholders have been bombarded with offers, rejections, dueling reports and some name-calling as they prepare to vote Thursday on whether to sell the alternative drug delivery firm to a subsidiary of a bankrupt…

Greta Johansson has been named the new director of the U.S. Small Business Administration's New Hampshire district office.Johansson, who currently serves as deputy district director of SBA's Connecticut office in Hartford, Conn., has worked for the SBA for 29 years,…

ProPhotonix Ltd. has stopped the bleeding, basically breaking even in the last quarter of the year, resulting in an annual net loss of $2.65 million - or about 6 cents a share -- according to preliminary filings with the London-based…

Merrimack-based PC Connection Inc. has announced the acquisition of ValCom Technology, a provider of cloud-based IT service management software, for $11.6 million.Under the terms of the stock purchase agreement, PC Connection said it paid the shareholders of ValCom Technology $8.6…

New Hampshire lawmakers seem bent on bringing back title loans -- short-term high interest loans backed by the title on the borrower's car. But are they willing to go even further, and allow a new kind of "installment loan," which…

Not that it's news to most people, New Hampshire's small businesses are an essential part of the state's economic well-being, according to data released March 14 by the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy.The office released Small Business Profiles…