Archive for December 2020

This year has rocked our global health systems, reawakened America to the reality of its centuries-old racial tensions, ravaged entire economic sectors and further enmeshed technology into our everyday lives. It has also provided unprecedented opportunities for innovation. Read More

The state’s minimum wage goes up to $13.50 on Jan. 1., and the state’s paid family medical leave act takes effect. Here’s what small-business owners and workers had to say about it. Read More

Here they are, the top 20 Boston Business Journal stories of 2020, ranked by the number of visits. Read More

From 3-D printing companies printing nasal swabs to the future of the tech office, from two blockbuster deals worth more than $20 billion to non-SPAC IPOs, the Massachusetts tech scene was not uneventful in the year of the pandemic. Read More

Across the board, the leaders featured here described the past nine months as the most trying period of their careers. Read More

Laura Carpenter, CEO of Abridge News, a Boston-born digital media startup that went through the MassChallenge Boston accelerator in 2018, decided to pull the plug, citing challenges in sustaining the business. Read More

The new legal challenge for the Bay Area fintech comes on the heels of a $65 million settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a complaint filed by Massachusetts regulators. Read More

"It’s a very crushing mandate to get once again, but not unexpected," Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce CEO Wendy Northcross said. "I think that there’s a huge sigh of resignation around the business community." Read More

Seven months after Ethan Pierce and Emma Snyder launched Grocery Outpost, a platform that enables restaurants to sell groceries locally, the pair is shutting the venture down. Read More

The way we are shopping now is shaping how we will shop in the future when the coronavirus crisis has passed. Read More