The Tory Burch Foundation Fellows Competition seeks to identify 10 Tory Burch Foundation Fellows to become ambassadors for women entrepreneurs, while providing an opportunity for them to compete for a $100,000 grant investment for their business education. Read more »
About 610,000 people die of heart disease in the United States, accounting for one in four deaths. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics show. Read more »
"We are very lucky," Ellsworth Economic Development Director Micki Sumpter told the paper. "There are communities that are losing paper mills. We have this industry that we should take advantage of." Read more »
TechPlace, the entrepreneur incubator at Brunswick Landing, lacks the cacophony and frenetic energy of the typical Massachusetts or Silicon Valley startup space, and that's not a bad thing. Read more »
"We're thrilled to continue work with our partners in Igiugig to reduce and stabilize their cost of energy, and in so doing, strengthen the community's sustainability," said ORPC President & CEO Chris Sauer, "We are moving forward to replicate our collaboration in Igiugig in other remote communities in Alaska, Canada and worldwide." Read more »
Today, U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King applauded York-based company RTI Wave Power for being selected as one of nine finalists in a national wave energy competition held by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
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Cerahelix Inc. of Orono has raised $575,000 of a $1 million equity and Series A preferred stock offering, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Read more »
Clean energy equipment manufacturer Pika Energy Inc. of Westbrook has raised $2,255,028 of a $3,100,000 equity and Series A preferred stock offering, according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Read more »
Auburn Manufacturing, a 50-employee business founded in 1979, develops, manufactures and markets textile products for extreme-temperature industrial applications. Read more »
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has launched two new Centers for Venture Research that will apply business and project management techniques to its ocean-related research projects to get them into public use more quickly. Read more »