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Climate Change Will Deal Huge Financial Blow to $12.2 Billion Ski and Snowmobile Industry; Consequences for CA, CO, ME, MT, NH, NM, NY, OR, PA, UT, VT and WA to be Highlighted. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new analysis conducted for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Protect Our Winters (POW) will detail the devastating economic impact that climate change could have on the U.S. winter tourism industry. The analysis finds that the $12.2 billion...
PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Calypso Communications, one of the only truly integrated, full-service public relations, marketing, and graphic design firms in Northern New England, recently partnered with two other N.H.-based companies that share a focus on sustainability to design a visually stunning wall mural depicting the history of Grappone Auto Group, a family-owned group of auto dealerships, in its Bow, N.H., Toyota headquarters. Calypso met the challenge of...
PORTLAND, Maine, Nov. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- FairPoint Communications was awarded a four-year contract worth more than $16 million to support the needs of the New England Telehealth Consortium (NETC). Under the contract, FairPoint will provide Carrier Ethernet Services to more than 400 health care sites in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. "We are extremely pleased and look forward to partnering with the New England Telehealth Consortium," said Jeff Allen, FairPoint's executive...
LITTLETON, N.H., Nov. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The holidays are a time to share joy with our friends, families and communities. They are also a time of great hustle and bustle with millions of us converging upon malls, salons and boutiques. The excitements experienced during the holidays are second only to the great memories we create. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121117/NE15553 ) Family activities, such as cooking and decorating, are traditions that are generations...
PETERBOROUGH, N.H., Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Just in time for the holiday shopping season, FreePriceAlerts, the automatic price engine that has saved online shoppers more than $70 million, today launched ziftr, a web-based dashboard that adds a new set of social shopping features designed to use the power of information and crowdsourcing to save consumers even more. ziftr offers five enhanced pricing and product discovery features that increase shoppers' ability to save...
PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Novocure(TM), a commercial stage private oncology company, announced today that preclinical and clinical data from studies evaluating NovoTTF(TM) Therapy will be presented at the 17th Annual Scientific Meeting and Education Day of the Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) in Washington, D.C. The data presented sheds light on the subcellular mechanisms underlying the anti-cancer effect of NovoTTF Therapy and helps define which recurrent...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- FairPoint Communications will now offer a green retail energy option to residents of Maine and New Hampshire. FairPoint Communications has entered into a marketing agreement with Crius Energy, a leading provider of green energy and has licensed to Crius the name FairPoint Energy. FairPoint Energy combines Crius Energy's strong presence and expertise in the retail energy sector with FairPoint Communications' broad customer base and...
PORTLAND, Maine, AUGUSTA, Maine and MANCHESTER, N.H., Oct. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Shur, one of northern New England's largest law firms, announced the launch of its Data Security Team, a team of attorneys who provide clients with legal and technical support before and after a data security breach. Despite enormous and increasing resources devoted to combating data breaches and other cybercrimes, incidents continue to grow. In 2011, it cost corporations an average of...
The angel investor market in the first two quarters of 2012 showed signs of steady recovery since the correction in the second half of 2008 and the first half of 2009, with total investments at $9.2 billion, an increase of 3.1 percent over the same period in 2011, according to the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. A total of 27,280 entrepreneurial ventures received angel funding during the first half of 2012, a 3.7 percent increase from the same period in...
NASHUA, N.H., Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast today announced year two of Internet Essentials, an ambitious and comprehensive broadband adoption program designed to help close the digital divide among low-income Americans. In its first full year of availability, more than 100,000 families, or 400,000 Americans, gained access to the Internet at home, and Comcast continues to enhance the program with new features and processes designed to accelerate enrollment in the program....
