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Optics manufacturer Viavi Solutions Inc. is growing its operations in the town of Henrietta, following the acquisition of RPC Photonics last year. Empire State Development officials said the company would create up to 23 jobs and retain 44 at the ...

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Batavia manufacturer Graham Corp. on Wednesday reported an improved top line, beating Street estimates. For the second quarter ended Sept. 30, Graham reported net sales of $21.6 million, up from $21.4 million in the second quarter last year. Net income ...

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Graduates of Rochester city schools will be eligible for a new scholarship St. John Fisher College has created for first-year students. The Fisher Urban Scholar Award will provide $40,000 over four years to students who complete charter schools and traditional ...

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The old hotel, a structure built nearly 60 years ago, is gone, and one year from now a new Courtyard by Marriott will stand on the corner of East Avenue and Alexander Street. After months of meetings with neighbors, city ...

Creekview Apartments at Woodland Park Phase II in Canandaigua, Solar Pods at Carter Road in Geneva and Westgate Apartments in Rochester were first-round winners in New York State’s Buildings of Excellence Competition, which recognizes and supports the design, construction and ...

No company is immune from a cyberattack, according to John Roman. “It’s not a question of it’s going to happen; it’s a question of when,” says Roman, president and chief operating officer of FoxPointe Solutions, a new arm of The ...

Monroe Community College has received a $2.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to support the college’s new Advancing Pathways for Partnerships in Learning through Integration of Education and Data (MCC APPLIED) program. The funding is expected to increase participation ...

Entrepreneur E. Philip Saunders is giving Rochester Institute of Technology an additional $7.5 million, which will help renovate and expand the building that houses the business college already named for him. This latest amount brings Saunders’  gifts to RIT to ...

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Xerox Holdings Corp. shares spiked Tuesday on earnings that surpassed Street estimates. Company stock (NYSE: XRX) had climbed 16 percent to $35.72 in heavy volume midday, eventually settling at roughly $34.50. Despite a 6.5 percent decrease in revenue to $2.2 ...

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Empire Access has launched fiber optic internet, phone and security services in Victor, giving residential and business customers faster connection speeds than traditional cable Internet services. Empire says its fiber optic network provides reliable service that is not prone to ...

Spencer Read started at Mitchell Design Build as an intern 14 years ago. Now he’s overseeing operations. Read was recently promoted to president of the Victor-based architecture and construction firm, bringing to fruition a succession plan that had been in ...

Having worked on projects in Binghamton for three decades, Bergmann will now call the Broome County city home. Bergmann has opened an office in the Koffman Southern Tier Incubator at 120 Hawley St., its sixth in New York. Founded and ...

Every day, every week and every month for the past 70 years, the Mary Cariola Children’s Center has helped individuals with complex disabilities fulfill their potential. The center also does the same for the people they employ. Through the staff ...

Do you have employees?  Do you process or store customer data?  Do you use computers that require logins and passwords?  If you answered yes to any of these questions, New York’s SHIELD Act, the first part of which went into ...

“Security is always seen as too much until the day it is not enough.” — William H. Webster, former director of the FBI & CIA. Information security is insurance. Nobody needs it until they do. The main challenge I’ve faced ...