Archive for April 2020

The union representing workers at the Boston Herald said Friday that its members have agreed to a plan that would furlough 30 employees unpaid for between two and five weeks each over the next couple months. Read More

Procter & Gamble’s organic sales were up 6% in the recently ended third quarter of the fiscal year, and core earnings per share topped the expectations of market analysts despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

Good morning, friends. Here are the 5 Things You Need to Know to start your Friday, plus Tom Brady’s broker, Boston by the numbers, another sign of our robot overlords, and what to do this weekend. Read More

With Zoom meetings becoming ubiquitous, Brattle Book Shop has found a way to bring in revenue by curating book-themed, customized backgrounds. Owner Kenneth Gloss says it’s brought in ‘thousands’ over the past two weeks. Read More

The first-come, first-serve nature of the program meant the money was approved quickly, before it could fully meet demand by small businesses. Here’s what the future looks like for those that missed out on this round of funding. Read More

We’ve been struggling to keep our minds straight as we learn to work from home. How’s that working for your neck? Read More

Cambridge-based automotive marketplace company CarGurus has laid off 13 percent of its workforce as the novel coronavirus continues to roil the economy. Read More

Moderna Inc. is set to start the next clinical trial of its potential COVID-19 drug in the next two months after receiving close to half a billion dollars from the U.S. government. Read More

A robust economy and low unemployment had software companies scrambling to find talent last year, but that didn’t stop more than half of the region’s largest software companies from adding to their headcount. Read More

Brady’s TB12 brand "has major growth plans that includes Tampa and Florida" — and a Boston broker who’s also a Tampa native will play a key role in the real estate search. Read More