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June 24, 2008 Archives


Gamemakers make their play at Foxwoods expo

2:18 PM Tue, Jun 24, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Paul Grimaldi    Email

About 50 toy and game inventors are wrapping up three days of meetings with buyers and agents this afternoon at Foxwoods Resort Casino. The toy industry members began gathering Sunday at the casino in Ledyard, Conn., as the annual Toy......

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Biomedical start-up wins state funding

9:01 AM Tue, Jun 24, 2008 | | Comments (1)
By John Kostrzewa    Email

ProThera Biologics, Inc., a biomedical startup in East Providence, has been granted $500,000 in equity funding by the Slater Technology Fund, the state-backed venture capital fund that invests in new companies. ProThera, co-founded in 2001 by Yow-Pin Lim, and Douglas......

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Webster bank to cut jobs, boost revenue

8:35 AM Tue, Jun 24, 2008 | | Write a comment
By John Kostrzewa    Email

Webster Financial Corp., the Waterbury,Conn.-based bank that has offices in Rhode Island, this morning said it will eliminate 240 jobs as part of a two-year program to increase the bank’s efficiency and earnings. More than half the cuts will......

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