New Hampshire Business Review - October-5 2012

Prison privatization faces an uphill battle

The plan to privatize New Hampshire's prison probably won't be approved by the Executive Council this year -- and will have a foe in the corner office next year, no matter who wins the gubernatorial race - putting the privatization…

HHS to seek new extension for Medicaid computer system

Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Nicholas Toumpas wants to give Xerox Corp. more time to implement the state's new Medicaid Management Information System, that was originally supposed to be running at the end of 2007.But, Toumpas, promised, this…

Nov. 16 social media summit at SNHU

The fourth annual "A-Ha!" Social Business Summit, an award-winning conference focusing on social media, will be held Friday, Nov. 16, at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester. Hosted by Epiphanies Inc., the summit will for the first time be available…

It's back: SEC's Cabletron case set for November

Eric Jaeger, the former top lawyer and vice president at Cabletron Systems, may call on former Cabletron CEO Piyush Patel, former Cabletron chief financial officer David Kirkpatrick and Michael A. Skubisz, former CEO of a Cabletron spinoff company, to testify…

Bottomline execs got big pay raises in 2012

The top three executives of Portsmouth-based Bottomline Technologies earned $5.2 million in compensation in fiscal year 2012 -- more than a 50 percent increase over 2011, the company disclosed in its proxy. The nine members of the board of the…

Ex-AeroSat CEO sues over 2011 firing

AeroSat Corp., an Amherst-based company that makes antennas used in commercial aircraft to allow passengers to connect to the Internet and watch TV, fired its founder Michael Barrett last year and owes him at least $660,000, Barrett claims in a…

Future construction shoots up in August

In August, future construction contracts in New Hampshire totaled about $70 million more they did in the same month the previous year. Future construction contracts in the state totaled $178.6 million in August -- a 67 percent increase from the…