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🔒CT companies increasingly tap ‘Internet of Things’ for innovation

The Internet of Things is evolving rapidly as more devices connect to the internet and each other, but businesses are already exploiting IoT to help manage operations and collect data — a trend expected to continue as connected devices and the data they produce proliferate.

🔒Survival tips for modern business etiquette

“Excuse Me — The Survival Guide to Modern Business Etiquette” by Rosanne J. Thomas (AMACOM, $21.95).While much...

🔒Guardrails, bumpers and guidelines to move your business forward

Guardrails on highways and bumpers on bowling lanes serve parallel purposes, although there is an undeniable difference of magnitude between improving your score and potentially saving your life. The thread of similarity, however, is instructive. At times, we stray from our intended path, and need a gentle nudge — or a sharp jolt — to stay on course.

🔒Realty pros show housing-market optimism; pessimistic about office/retail space

Q&A talks about the state of the commercial realty market with Erron Smith, associate director of business development at the Connecticut Economy Resource Center.
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🔒Back East Brewery holds five-year anniversary celebration

More than 300 people celebrated the five-year anniversary of Bloomfield-based craft brewer, Back East. The event included...

🔒CT Children’s looks ahead after rejecting Yale merger

Despite financial pressures from a consolidating healthcare market and uncertain government funding, Connecticut Children's Medical Center is determined to remain independent, its leader says.

🔒CT VC funding flat during first half of 2017

Connecticut companies announced $94.6 million in venture capital deals during the first half of this year, on par with deal totals in the same period last year, according to the latest MoneyTree Report from PwC and CB Insights.

🔒Elimination of excessive prevailing wage will stimulate CT economy

Connecticut is in a difficult position — our economy is sputtering, the state is grappling with a permanent fiscal crisis, our towns and cities are preparing for painful cuts and our unemployment rate is one of the highest in the United States.
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🔒When will tax-hike threat end? No time soon

It appears state policymakers have few intentions to curb their appetite for imposing new and higher taxes on state residents.

🔒Webster Bank, Yard Goats employees recognized

Bonnie Lagocki, supervisor for Webster Bank's Restructure & Recovery Department, recently accepted an award from the U.S....

🔒American Eagle Financial Credit Union donates school supplies

American Eagle Financial Credit Union employees collected and donated over 100 backpacks filled with supplies to benefit...

🔒Westfarms’ retail boulevard preps for new competition

Soon, the competition will get even more intense. Next spring, West Hartford's Corbins Corner will become the Corbin Collection, a new shopping center at 1445 New Britain Ave. across from Westfarms mall.
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🔒Chip’s raises $8K for Hospital for Special Care

Chip's Family Restaurant raised $8,200 for the Hospital for Special Care through the Chip's specially created “Stack...

🔒Jason Jakubowski | President and CEO, Foodshare

There's a new leader at Foodshare, the Bloomfield-based food bank serving Hartford and Tolland counties, but he's a familiar face hungry to help his community.

🔒Farmington Bank team competes in charity 5K

More than a dozen employees from Farmington Bank recently participated in the CFA Society Corporate 5K, which...
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