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A year ago this month, David L. Long was standing at a podium showing off Rochester Institute of Technology’s newest toy – MAGIC Spell Studios, a state-of-the-art studio for creating video games, movies and all kinds of media. It would ...

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WROC-TV Channel 8 was honored by The Radio Television Digital News Association with the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Social Media. The award recognizes the station as a national leader in innovated and engaging social media content. “The National ...

The founder of a small marketing and communications company and a former banker who bought a construction company 18 years ago are the winners of the 2019 Small Business Council of Rochester’s Business Person of the Year Award. Nicole Mahoney, ...

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The red, lighted KODAK atop the Eastman Kodak Co. headquarters remains an iconic beacon in downtown Rochester. But the sign has company now — and just a few stories below, on what once was Kodak property. Monroe Community College erected ...

The ideal time for a change in leadership isn’t when it’s necessary, but rather when it’s right. For Partners + Napier, that time is now. With the firm on pace for its best revenue year ever, Sharon Napier is passing ...

Mirror Show Management has enhanced its services and expanded its client base with the acquisition of a Pennsylvania-based firm, Creative Display Solutions. Maureen Borzacchiello, who founded Creative Display Solutions in 2001, will join Mirror Show Management as director of global ...

Tompkins Insurance Agencies received the 2019 Excellence in Social Media Award from the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents. The award recognizes the member agency that uses non-traditional communication tools to effectively further the goals of the organization. “Our goal ...

With growth comes change, at least for CAUSE + EFFECT Strategy & Marketing. On Sunday, the Henrietta-based firm was ranked No. 87 on Adweek’s inaugural list of Fastest Growing Agencies in the world. On Monday, the company pared down its ...

Kevin Momot is proof that you can go “home.” Six years after leaving The Daily Record, Momot has returned. Only this time, instead of overseeing operations for just one publication, he’ll be publisher and sales director of both the Rochester ...

KJT Group, an evidence-based consulting firm in Honeoye Falls, has become an employee-owned company. Founder and CEO Kenneth J. Tomaszewski informed employees that the firm was sold to the Employee Stock Ownership Plan & Trust (ESOP), a benefit plan that ...

Simon Business School’s Andrew Ainslie will step down as dean after the current school year, a decision that allows him to be closer to his wife, who holds a teaching and administrative position in Colorado. Ainslie will stay through the ...

Coast Professional just keeps growing, and the Geneseo-based firm continues to do so faster than most companies in the area. For the sixth consecutive year, Coast Professional landed on the Inc. 5000, a ranking of the fastest-growing, privately held, for ...

As Herb Besaw gazes out the window of the SPOON Exhibits & Events headquarters in Macedon, it’s impossible for him to forget his roots. Having grown up on a farm in the St. Lawrence County town of Gouverneur, the view ...

  Rochester People’s Climate Coalition is trying to go viral like the Ice Bucket Challenge did, but with melting instead of freezing. And instead of curing a disease, the group is aiming to cure the planet of climate change by ...

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The leadership team at Tipping Point Communications, a certified New York State woman-owned business, has grown with the addition of Jamie Frumusa, Megan Connor Murphy and Melissa Yacuzzo. Frumusa has been promoted to director of public relations. She has been ...