Archive for December 2019
Sox-Yankees London series had $62M economic impact
The Red Sox game against the Yankees in London this past June brought tens of millions of dollars to the U.K. economy, according to newly released survey results. Read More
Read MoreNew Boston-based digital health firm goes bi-coastal
Transformation Capital’s newest West Coast partner, Mike Dixon, is bullish on direct-to-consumer digital health. Read More
Read MoreLogMeIn to be taken private after $4.3B acquisition
Enterprise software company LogMeIn Inc. is the latest company gobbled up by private equity in a $4.3 billion exit that reflects the growing interest of cash-rich PE firms in New England companies. Read More
Read MoreCrowdsourced investment tech firm to let outsiders use its secret sauce
Hundreds of thousands of amateur investors and other users have created investment algorithms on Quantopian’s platform, which the firm then uses for its own fund. Now it will start allowing other investment firms to use them for their own quantitative trading. Read More
Read MoreFive things you need to know today, and why I’ll never have a real Christmas tree
Good morning, everyone. The snow is falling, schools are closing, and these are the five most important things you need to know to get your busy Tuesday started. Read More
Read MoreAtlas, MPM, Partners funnel $49M into a new gene-silencing startup
Two of the industry’s leading gene-editing experts have unveiled their next venture: a gene-silencing startup called Triplet Therapeutics. Read More
Read MoreSpeech analytics company raises ‘biggest round yet’ from Goldman Sachs
CallMiner, a speech analytics provider with offices in Waltham and in the Seaport, raised its biggest individual round in the seventeen years of the history of the company, according to CEO Paul Bernard. Following the investment, CallMiner plans further international expansion. Part of the new financing will also be used to grow the company’s current…
Read MoreMinority shareholders granted $25M judgment in Lau Technologies lawsuit
Executives of a Littleton company now owe more than $25 million to its original shareholders, according to the final judgment in a lawsuit that found the executives of Lau Technologies guilty of breaking fiduciary duties to shareholders. Read More
Read MoreCity approves hotel proposal that would reshape Kenmore Square
Mark Development has proposed to revamp traffic and pedestrian patterns to build a 29-story hotel. Read More
Read MoreUMass Memorial sells pharmacy business to stave off operating loss
UMass Memorial Health Care said it is in a precarious financial position in the year ahead. Read More
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