HOYLE TANNER ACQUIRES TF BERNIER
New England surveying and consulting firm TF Bernier has been acquired by Hoyle Tanner, a civil engineering services provider. This acquisition will help Hoyle Tanner expand its services to include land surveying, additional environmental permitting, stormwater design, wildlife resource identification, and sUAS (drone) capabilities.
Servicing New England, TF Bernier brings to the partnership knowledge of local and regional planning, zoning and land-use regulations for the company’s clients.
Tim Bernier, founder, owner and president of TF Bernier, says, “We have been working with members of the Hoyle Tanner team for a long time and felt that their culture and attention to what matters most to our team, our clients, was a great fit for us. The opportunities for our team members and clients to benefit from this partnership is what made this happen and we are thrilled to hit the ground running.”
Hoyle Tanner will maintain the TF Bernier office at 50 Pleasant Street in Concord.
REBET LAUNCHES FREE-TO-PLAY SOCIAL SPORTSBOOK
Rebet, a new free-to-play social sportsbook app, is now available for download in the App Store across 47 U.S. states. According to a press release, Rebet “is set to revolutionize the sports betting experience with first-of-its-kind features including an entire social sportsbook, peer-to-peer contests, and dynamic user social feeds.”
The app, founded by students at Dartmouth College, delivers real-time data of over 60 professional and college sports leagues to users. Along with the traditional sports betting capabilities, Rebet includes social media feeds with followers, posts, comments, and direct messaging for users to engage on a community-like platform.
Unlike most other sports-betting apps, Rebet also includes a peer-to-peer competition option where friends can engage in friendly competition to challenge one another’s sports knowledge and betting strategies.
With Rebet, users can now set their own terms and compete in a more interactive environment, where every wager becomes “a personal duel of wits and prediction prowess.”
CONNECTION OPENS 2024 IT SUPERHERO AWARDS, NAMED TO FORBES’ BEST EMPLOYERS LIST
Connection (NASDAQ: CNXN), an IT solutions provider to business, government, health care and education markets, has announced a call for nominations for its fourth annual IT Superhero Awards, which recognizes IT professionals. According to a press release, nominations can be submitted for colleagues that go “above and beyond the call of duty to save the day for their team.”
The IT Superhero Awards program is open to IT professionals from organizations of all sizes and industries, spanning startups to large enterprises across all vertical markets. Category winners will be announced at the Connection Technology Summit in Boston, Mass., on September 14, 2024. Nominations are due by June 28, 2024.
The IT Superhero Awards recognize winners across five categories: Best Team Leader, Best Rookie, Best Catch, Best Superpower and Most Unshakable. A grand-prize winner, chosen from the category winners, will be named the Ultimate IT Superhero. For more information and to submit a nomination, visit www.connection.com/ITsuperheroawards.
In addition, Connection has been named to Forbes’ America’s Best Employers list, ranking No. 13 out of 400 organizations on the 2024 list of America’s Best Midsize Employers. Their ranking climbed higher in the rankings from its No. 88 spot in 2023.
Tim McGrath, president and CEO of Connection, said, “This accolade speaks volumes about our employees and the supportive culture we’ve created together around shared values of integrity, honesty and teamwork. Our team’s commitment to inclusivity is deeply rooted in Connection’s history of innovation — every groundbreaking solution or service we provide to customers is the result of dedicated individuals collaborating to bring the best ideas forward.
I’m proud of that culture and the supportive work environment we’ve built at Connection.”
