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  • Optical security firm purchased

       JDS Uniphase (Nasdaq: JDSU), based in Milpitas, Calif., announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Robbinsville-based American Bank Note Holographics, Inc. for approximately $138 million. ABNH originates, produces and markets holograms for security applications and is a supplier of optical security devices for the transaction card market. Following the close of…

  • Mansfield Township meeting

    The next Mansfield Township Committee meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 27 in the Municipal Building on East Main Street.

  • MRCC names payroll processor

       Bordentown-based Primepoint announced that the Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce has chosen it to handle payroll processing beginning January 1, 2008.    Michele N. Siekerka, president of the MRCC said, “I look forward to a long relationship with Primepoint and I’m excited about streamlining the organization’s payroll processing with Primepoint’s technology while taking advantage of…

  • Airline to cease operations, leave Trenton-Mercer Airport

    Big Sky Airlines, a commercial airline operating as a partner of the Delta Airlines Connection service, has announced its intention to cease its East Coast operations, including flights from Trenton-Mercer Airport, Mercer County officials announced. The airline had been offering three roundtrip flights between Trenton and Boston’s Logan International Airport. Big Sky began operations out…

  • PACKET BUSINESS NEWS: Nice windows, but no competition

    Princeton merchants give contest ‘a rest’ By Lauren Otis, Business Editor    And the downtown holiday window display winners are … nobody.    Yes, that’s right. For the first time in decades, the Borough Merchants for Princeton will not be declaring winners in its traditional annual holiday window display contest.    Although plenty of merchants downtown have…

  • RWJ grants $12 M to cancer institute

       The Plainsboro-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced it will make a $12 millin grant to the Cancer Institute of New Jersey Foundation, based in Hamilton, for a four-year project aimed at growing the CINJ’s research areas of cancer prevention, control and population science at CINJ.    Joseph R. Bertino, M.D., interim director and chief scientific…

  • Ocean Power results are in

       Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTT), a Pennington-based company developing electricity-generating ocean buoys, announced increased revenues and a reduced loss for the second quarter of its fiscal year ending April 30, 2008.    Revenues for the three months ended Oct. 31, 2007 increased by 204 percent to $1.7 million compared to $0.6 million in the…

  • London biopharma goes to Princeton

       Antisoma plc, a London-based biopharmaceutical company focusing on the development of novel products for the treatment of cancer, announced the opening of its United States headquarters in the Princeton area. Chris Smyth, head of clinical operations at Antisoma, has been appointed vice president, U.S. operations. The new office will focus on the clinical and…

  • Lawrence art studio to close

       Maidenhead Studio, which has offered art classes and workshops at its Lawrenceville location for almost 15 years, will be closing by the end of the year. Owner Ruthann Perry stated that she made the decision to leave as owner to concentrate on her own work. Ms. Perry indicated that there has been some interest…