February 18, 2019 EditionEdition

🔒Newsworthy people and performances

New hires Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty hired Heidi Steele as a senior vice president in Camden. Steele was previously a broker and office manager at RE/MAX Jaret & Cohn […]

🔒How to: Build a culture of cyber-defenders

In today's world, cybersecurity is a hot-button issue that effects organizations large and small. Here are some tips on how to build a culture of cyber-defenders within your company.

🔒A handy formula to improve your listening

Q: I'm told I don't listen well. How can I improve? ACE Advises: Listening is the most...

🔒More businesses migrate to the cloud, but is it the right approach for everyone?

Matt McGrath, president of Portland-based Systems Engineering, a managed IT services and support firm, says Maine companies increasingly are moving toward having some of all their business functions operating in the "cloud."
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🔒Virtual reality gains traction in sectors from architecture to hospice care

Big Room Studios, based in a 3,000-square-foot office at Thompson's Point, started out in web design in 2002. The firm added custom software development in 2008 and that remains its bread and butter. More recently, it has branched out into virtual and augmented reality projects of varying scope.

🔒How to: Prepare for a business loan

If you own a business, you know what it's like to see — and want to seize...

🔒Lone Pine Brewing gets ready to roll out its Gorham tasting room in March

Three years after Tom Madden and John Paul founded Lone Pine Brewing Co. in Portland, the craft brewer just added five new tanks at its new Gorham facility to double its production capacity to nearly 13,000 barrels a year. The Gorham tasting room, still a work in progress — with oak barrels already aging sour beers — and scheduled to open in March.

🔒Aquaculture must be good for all parties

To the Editor:We applaud the Island Institute for its support to help grow the aquaculture industry. Developing...
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🔒Manufacturing’s workforce is growing again, but is a long way from pre-recession numbers

Maine's manufacturing workforce, which declined sharply during the recession, has started a gradual rebound. Even so, it remains dramatically smaller than the workforce numbers of 2001 and 2008.

🔒When technology makes our world better

The New Yorker recently published an essay by the late Oliver Sacks that bemoans technology's greater presence...

🔒From Saco to Bath, lots of projects in the works

JHR Development LLC, which is based in Marblehead, Mass., is entering another phase with the Bath RiverWalk...

🔒A Look Back: Operator, please connect me to rural Maine

While it seems hard to believe in this day and age, a story about the high cost...
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