Archive for December 2019

Boston-based DraftKings, which has a total of over 850 employees, will maintain its growth plans following an agreement with Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corp. to become a publicly traded company as part of a merger, the company said. Read More

Tax collections over the first half of December are off by 4.4 percent, or $42 million compared to the same period in December 2018, with most of the change attributable to a drop in income withholding payments, according to state data. Read More

The president and CEO of The Howard Group in Colonie alleges his firm wasn’t paid the full amount for services associated with scouting new Cumberland Farms locations. Read More

As peer-to-peer car-sharing services like Turo, Getaround and Maven begin to grow in popularity, car sharing is emerging as the latest front in the regulatory battles between established industries — in this case, car rental companies — and players the new gig economy. Read More

Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey and Joe Kennedy sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos related to a recent investigation into safety conditions at Amazon facilities. Read More

DraftKings plans to become a public company as part of an agreement that also brings in a gambling tech firm under the Boston-based sports gaming and online betting company’s umbrella. Read More

Shares of Sarepta Therapeutics jumped in premarket trading on Monday on the news. Read More

Good morning —here are the 5 Things You Need to Know to start your day, and an Oxford philosopher’s theory on why state-run AI surveillance might save us from total annihilation. Read More

The Boston-based company is now asking many applicants for little besides their name, birth date and address. Read More

There are now 11 executives holding a “chief” job title in HubSpot’s management team, following the addition of the company’s first-ever chief customer officer. For comparison, enterprise software maker PTC Inc. counts only four chiefs. Read More