Archive for December 2020

Initial public offerings, or IPOs, have been on a tear this year, both nationwide and in the Bay State, with tech and biotech firms leading the way. Read More

Leaders of several industry organizations and chambers of commerce say employers, who are staring down a nearly 60 percent increase in the unemployment insurance contributions they pay quarterly, need immediate assurances that the hikes will not be as severe. Read More

Eight years after the legalization of medical marijuana and four years after adoption of recreational cannabis, the Massachusetts Medical Society has recognized cannabis as a medical therapy. Read More

This, dear readers, is what you read this year. Read More

UMass Memorial Health Care canceled thousands of procedures and faced multi-million dollar drops in revenue, but ended fiscal 2020 in the black. Read More

While the Covid-19 pandemic turned some aspects of Greater Boston’s commercial real estate on its head — a year ago, could anyone have imagined luxury apartment buildings offering concessions ahead of Sept. 1? — it has strengthened others, as the region’s life-science industry raced to create and distribute a vaccine against the deadly virus. Here…

After early rounds of the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program were given primarily to large and white-owned businesses, advocates and others called for a targeted effort to provide money to Black businesses hit hardest by the pandemic. Read More

After announcing it would shut down in mid-October, Fab@CIC, the makerspace and fabrication lab at the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), is coming back to life, albeit on a smaller scale. Read More

Rhode Island startup leaders have made countless pivots out of sheer necessity. These are the stories that shaped 2020. Read More

A Seattle biotech has acquired Boston-based Kerafast Inc. and its sister company, United Kingdom-based Absolute Antibody Ltd. Read More