ONEONTA — Most people don’t think about capacitors, unless they’re talking about the flux capacitor in the DeLorean time machine in the 1985 movie “Back to the Future,” but capacitors help make our modern world go around.

NEW HARTFORD — PAR Technology Corp. (NYSE: PAR) announced that BAE Systems, has awarded PAR subsidiary, Rome Research Corp. (RRC), a $9.5 million subcontract to work on a naval-communications program.

UTICA — ConMed Corp.’s (NASDAQ: CNMD) board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of 15 cents per share, payable on July 8 to all shareholders of record as of June 17. At its current stock price, that equals an annual dividend yield of about 1.8 percent.

In New York state, 19,122 people filed for new unemployment-insurance benefits in the week ending May 11, up from the year-to-date low of 18,627 claims filed the week before, according to U.S. Labor Department data issued Thursday. 

When the crew of the Titanic spotted the iceberg, they altered course, but there wasn't enough time to avoid the greatest disaster in seafaring history. Likewise, General Motors Corp. (GM), the Titanic of the global automotive industry for the last 7