Archive for March 2020
Somerville robotics startup opens first European office
Somerville-based RightHand Robotics Inc., a six-year-old startup with $34 million in total funding, announced the opening of its first office in Europe on Tuesday. Read More
Read MoreFive minutes with…Mark Lev, Fenway Sports Management
Mark Lev grew up in Swampscott, a fan of Boston sports teams. After college, he got a job with the Boston Celtics, driving Red Auerbach around, and stayed with the organization for 14 years. He left to get into sports management and eventually landed at Fenway Sports Management 15 years ago. He took over as…
Read MoreChinese investors buy downtown Boston office for $75M
The office is adjacent to the future Winthrop Center site. Read More
Read MoreState’s top three insurers report losses at end of 2019
Insurer financials were issued on Friday for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. Read More
Read MoreAmerican City Business Journals launches BizLeads
The new cloud-based B2B data product helps sales and marketing professionals identify and reach potential customers. Read More
Read MoreFidelity reports record profit, despite pricing war
The financial services giant’s assets under administration surpassed $8 trillion. The amount of money within the vast Fidelity Investments empire surged last year, helping the company achieve record profitability, according to its just-released annual report. Read More
Read MoreBoston ‘lab-as-a-service’ company makes first foray in Bay Area
The deal leaves the 21-story north tower of Phase 3 Real Estate’s Genesis project with just 8% vacancy. Read More
Read MoreIn White House meeting on coronavirus drugs, cost wasn’t discussed
Officials from several biopharma companies, including Boston’s CureVac AG, Cambridge’ Moderna Inc. and Sanofi, traveled to the White House Monday to discuss the ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus COVID-19. Read More
Read MoreThermo Fisher to buy Dutch company in $11.5B deal
The Waltham-based life sciences giant says the acquisition will expand its diagnostics offerings, especially in the area of infectious diseases. Read More
Read MoreOp-ed: Manufacturing has changed. Your vote can change capitalism too.
I founded 99Degrees because I believe wholeheartedly that the most impactful and effective social program we can build is a job with a family-supporting wage. Manufacturing today looks little like the manufacturing that powered the Industrial Revolution. I’m thankful for that. Capitalism, too, need not look like its past. Read More
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