Archive for January 2021

In its original unsolicited offer, Staples parent Sycamore Partners sought to purchase all of ODP Corp.’s common stock in a deal valued at $2.1 billion. Read More

Dispensaries have sued the Cannabis Control Commission for its new cannabis delivery regulations, saying the exclusivity for the license to disenfranchised groups violates state law. Read More

Op-ed by Lorena Lopera is the executive director of Latinos for Education: "If we don’t succeed in closing the digital divide, Latino students who represent Massachusetts’ future workforce will continue to fall behind." Read More

Last year’s flood of biotech IPOs appears to be carrying into 2021, with one Cambridge drugmaker going public last week and another filing plans to do so this week. Read More

DraftKings and FanDuel are the "most widely recognized sportsbook names and together comprise" roughly 80% of the U.S. market, but "scores of competitors are now angling for a piece of the action in a torrid sports betting category," according to a national advertising magazine. Read More

Good morning, friends! Here are the five things you need to know today in Boston business, plus newborn babies, Edgar Allan Poe and a sense of deja vu as we near the one-year anniversary of the economic shutdown. Read More

A Swedish professional services firm has bought Bates Communications Inc., the company founded in 2000 by Suzanne Bates, a former TV journalist. Read More

Two Boston researchers credited for creating a coronavirus vaccine and a coronavirus diagnostic tool will be launching a new project to understand the fundamental inner workers of the disease, thanks to a $5 million gift from Elon Musk’s charitable foundation. Read More

If your mind heads toward melancholy in the quiet times, it might be time to give it something new to do. Read More