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After being ranked the country’s 52nd fastest-growing private company on the Inc. 5000 list last summer, it seems quite appropriate that The Digital Hyve outgrew its own space. As well as the initial plans for a new space. So when the company ...

Customer demands and modern technologies have forced firms to adopt new marketing strategies and tools. “We have seen our needs from our clients change, and we have evolved our solutions or our strategies to meet those needs,” says Nicole Kingsley ...

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Trying to stand out against your competitors is always a principal goal in selling your brand. But marketers these days will tell you the game is less about finding a way to steal people’s attention and more about giving them ...

The Carlson Center for Intellectual Property at the Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County, on Thursday, will celebrate its 20th anniversary as a Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC) of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office with the IP Expo. This ...

Cameron Community Ministries, the Healthi Kids Coalition and the Lyell/Otis Neighborhood Association will partner Thursday on their 7th Annual Peace Walk in the Lyell/Otis neighborhood. The children of Cameron Community Ministries’ after-school program will march May 30 at 4:30 for ...

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Finger Lakes Museum will again partner with outdoor gear company L.L. Bean to offer summer programs that embody the retailer’s slogan, the Outside is Everything We Make. “L.L. Bean is proud to support the Finger Lakes Museum and its goal ...

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Mercedes Ramírez Fernández will join the staff July 1, coming from Virginia Tech, where she has been associate vice provost for strategic affairs and diversity.

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The mortgage holder on two Robert Morgan apartment communities has filed foreclosure papers in state Supreme Court, claiming the Pittsford developer violated terms of the loan agreement by committing fraud. U.S. Bank National Association, acting on behalf of special servicer ...

The city of Rochester has lost nearly 4,300 residents since 2010, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows. The American FactFinder annual estimates of resident population estimated 206,284 residents in the city of Rochester last year, compared with 210,565 ...

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Tonight, Friday, May 24, the Genesee Brewery is kicking off its 141st year celebration with the second round of ROC the Falls. ROC the Falls is a new festival first rolled out in September 2018 as a celebration of Genesee’s ...

Sarah C. Mangelsdorf won’t be the only headliner when she’s formally installed as the president of the University of Rochester in October. Mangelsdorf, currently the provost at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will be inaugurated during Meliora Weekend, Oct. ...

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At first glance, one might think Jennyrae Brongo helped build Homesteads for Hope because of her relationship to the construction industry. But that’s not quite true. “My brother is my muse,” says the 29-year-old co-founder and CEO of the not-for-profit ...

At 27, Kelly Taran found herself on a high rung of the career ladder—one that often takes years of climbing to reach. In January 2018, Taran was promoted to chief information officer at First American Equipment Finance.

For years, advocates for farmworkers have lobbied to end exemptions to labor laws that exist on farms but with little success. Since Democrats took control of the state Senate last fall, however, a new effort concerning farm interests introduced by ...

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If you were an early investor in a Robert Morgan real estate fund, you probably made out quite well. You received your promised 11 percent rate of return from the Note Fund, and it arrived on time. Hopefully you didn’t ...