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R.I. hires firm for 38 Studios financial audit

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Herald Staff) — Wed, 30 May 2012 17:17:38 -0400

PROVIDENCE - Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee announced today that Deloitte has been retained to work with Braver...

Deval Patrick and MIT to announce data initiative

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Associated Press) — Wed, 30 May 2012 17:14:14 -0400

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gov. Deval Patrick and industry officials announced today that they...

Google, Intuit will help get small Mass. businesses on Web

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Donna Goodison) — Wed, 30 May 2012 17:08:36 -0400

Google has teamed up with Intuit to give online faces to Massachusetts small businesses. The Internet search...

Bay State, MIT roll out 'big data' programs

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Ira Kantor) — Wed, 30 May 2012 14:33:16 -0400

State officials and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will team up today to announce new initiatives designed...

Computer virus briefly hits Iran's oil industry

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Associated Press) — Wed, 30 May 2012 09:47:02 -0400

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's key oil industry was briefly affected by the powerful computer virus known as "Flame"...

New lab turns South Dakota gold town into scientific hub

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Associated Press) — Wed, 30 May 2012 08:58:28 -0400

LEAD, S.D. - Nestled nearly 5,000 feet beneath the earth in the gold boom town of Lead, S.D., is a laboratory that...

MassChallenge ups global reach

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Ira Kantor) — Tue, 29 May 2012 23:47:52 -0400

Fewer Bay State startups secured MassChallenge finalist spots as the Boston-based competition continued to gain...

One of Apple's first computers for sale at auction

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Patrick May) — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:32:29 -0400

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Going ... going ... going crazy for the Apple 1. One of these rare and beloved icons that...

R.I. gov rejects Curt Schilling's blame game

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Gary J. Remal And Greg Turner) — Tue, 29 May 2012 18:04:30 -0400

Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee defended the state's handling of the financial crisis that swallowed up retired...

RI Gov. Chaffee rejects Schilling blame for 38 Studios woes

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Associated Press) — Tue, 29 May 2012 17:30:42 -0400

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Rhode Island's governor said today that former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is wrong to blame...

MassChallenge narrows startup field

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Herald Staff) — Tue, 29 May 2012 16:43:07 -0400

MassChallenge announced the 125 finalists that will participate in its 2012 startup accelerator program today at...

Elaborate Portland wedding proposal goes viral

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Associated Press) — Tue, 29 May 2012 16:36:26 -0400

PORTLAND, Ore. - A video of a Portland man's elaborate, choreographed marriage proposal to his girlfriend has notched...

RI gov: Schilling's wrong to blame woes on state

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Associated Press) — Tue, 29 May 2012 11:30:51 -0400

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Rhode Island's governor says his comments about the financial health of Curt Schilling's video...

Army awards $6M contract to iRobot

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Ira Kantor) — Tue, 29 May 2012 11:23:36 -0400

Bedford-based iRobot said today it has received two orders from the U.S. Army's Robotic Systems Joint Program Office,...

Pinterest shapes Web design wave

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Jessica Van Sack) — Tue, 29 May 2012 11:09:57 -0400

The virtual bulletin board Pinterest is like Jennifer Aniston's hair in 1995: Everyone wants the look. For better...

Phone wet? Don't get soaked!

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Dan O'Brien) — Tue, 29 May 2012 05:59:25 -0400

Sunburn isn't the only thing to worry about this summer. The season can be murder on iPhones and other PDAs....

RIM loses another senior executive

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Associated Press) — Mon, 28 May 2012 15:35:31 -0400

TORONTO - Struggling Blackberry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. is losing another senior executive as its chief legal...

Mark Zuckerberg makes unlikely cameo on Chinese TV

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Associated Press) — Mon, 28 May 2012 14:53:58 -0400

BEIJING - Social media sites and blogs have lit up after eagle-eyed viewers spotted a surprise cameo in a Chinese...

These gadgets score with dads and grads

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Jessica Van Sack) — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:56:02 -0400

It's time to buy gifts for dads and grads. With graduation parties galore and Father's Day approaching, here are...

When it comes to talking, we're smarter than Siri

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Amina Khan) — Sun, 27 May 2012 10:08:59 -0400

LOS ANGELES - Is Bob your uncle? Probably depends on what language you're speaking. In Urdu, if Robert's your father's...

Tweets salute vets

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Jessica Van Sack) — Sat, 26 May 2012 21:53:10 -0400

There's now a digital way to honor wounded vets on Twitter. Hashtags4Heroes, a project of Hub-based Raytheon, allows...

Silicon Valley's new diamond farm grows synthetic supermaterials

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Bruce Newman) — Sat, 26 May 2012 16:22:31 -0400

It is the hardest substance known to man, and because it takes more than a billion years for nature to conjure...

Chafee: 38 Studios is back in default

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Gary J. Remal) — Fri, 25 May 2012 17:53:28 -0400

PROVIDENCE - Gov. Lincoln Chafee said today that 38 Studios is back in default with Rhode Island because the video...

Rhode Island agency in flux after Schilling company falters

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Associated Press) — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:41:51 -0400

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Rhode Island's economic development agency was in disarray today as the state reeled from the...

Russian tech conference at Seaport Hotel? 'Nyet'

trose@heraldinteractive.com (Ira Kantor) — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:16:21 -0400

The Seaport Hotel said today it will no longer be hosting a four-day EuraMedia 2012 Summit conference dedicated...