At the same time, Big Tech companies largely failed to convince investors during the earnings season that their spending on AI is translating to more sales and bigger profits.
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State awards $5.8 million to more than 100 Maine businesses for storm damage repairs
Gov. Janet Mills announced that the grants, which go up to $100,000, will support small businesses across industries and all 16 counties.
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Posted inBusiness, The Bethel Citizen
Bobbi Vandenbulcke is new Chamber of Commerce Executive Director
Vandenbulcke comes to Bethel from the Exeter New Hampshire Area Chamber of Commerce where she worked for 17 years
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
Photo Album: United Way, businesses fill backpacks with back-to-school supplies
Roughly 2,500 backpacks will be dropped off for students in need at 47 schools across Androscoggin and Oxford counties.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, News
Giant transformer move from Auburn to Lewiston delayed — again — until Thursday
Central Maine Power’s transformer move has been rescheduled again, this time to Thursday night.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
Photos: Moving day fuel at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport
A project three years in the making will offer 24/7 access to aviation fuel for general aviation pilots.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Breeze Airways to add another route between Portland and Florida
Starting Nov. 20, the airline will offer flights twice a week from Portland to Sarasota.
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World
Design flaw could allow hackers to roll back Microsoft Windows updates
Microsoft’s feature is supposed to stop any tainted core element of an operating system from working, but a researcher for security company SafeBreach beat it, giving him complete control of test machines.
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World
California solar company’s demise underscores industry primed for casualties
SunPower’s stumbles happened against the background of high interest rates, which make panels less affordable for homeowners, and a major subsidy cut in its home state – the country’s biggest solar market.
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World, News
A booming industry of AI age scanners, aimed at children’s faces
More than 2 decades after the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act first mandated internet companies treat children differently from adults, most apps and websites still assume that all of their users, when asked their age, will tell the truth.