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Posted inBusiness, Maine
Central Maine Power asks regulators for $162 million reimbursement for storm repairs
If approved by regulators, electricity rates will go up for more than 635,000 CMP customers.
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Posted inBusiness, Nation / World, News
U.S. prescription drug market in disarray as ransomware gang attacks
Insurance giant UnitedHealthcare Group said the hackers struck a business unit that routes prescription claims from pharmacies to companies that determine whether patients are covered by insurance and what they should pay.
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World, News
Tech writer Kara Swisher has a new book. Enter the AI-generated scams.
Selling a new book these days often means competing for readers’ attention with knockoffs that bear signs of having been generated largely or entirely by artificial intelligence tools.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Business, News
They are TV’s ghosts – networks that somehow survive with little reason to watch them anymore
Few cable and satellite networks are a force anymore, the byproduct of sudden changes in how people entertain themselves.
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World, News
Musk sues OpenAI and Altman for breaching firm’s founding mission
The case marks an escalation in the one of the highest-profile clashes in the emerging field of AI, pitting two of its most prominent players against each other.
Posted inBusiness, Noteworthy
Norway Savings Bank donates $10K to SAD 17 field trips
NORWAY — Norway Savings Bank contributed another $10,000 in February to the Vinking FUNds program, which pays for student field trips, including over 20 locations around New England, from Maine Wildlife Park in Gray to the Museum of Science and Freedom Trail in Boston. Viking FUNds is a nod to the Oxford Hills’ mascot. All […]
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Schools & Education
Maine colleges, universities partner with defense industry to recruit and train thousands of workers
As overseas military threats multiply, the U.S. defense industry is looking to vastly scale up hiring and worker training, including in Maine.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Maine’s unemployment rate hovers near record low
The 2023 rate of 2.9% doesn’t capture the whole picture, though, because many workers have left the workforce entirely in the last few years.
Posted inBusiness
Value of Maine lobster fishery rebounds in 2023 despite smallest catch in 15 years
Lobstermen brought in $464 million last year, a nearly 20% jump from 2022 that was propelled by a dockside price of $4.95 per pound, the second highest on record.