Archive for March 2021

Massachusetts will be switching to a new pre-registration site for appointments at the state’s seven mass vaccination locations, in an effort to ensure a more seamless process for people looking for a vaccine. Read More

If the transaction is approved, GE will part with the largest chunk of what remains of GE Capital, its once-massive financial services arm that it has rapidly shrunk in recent years. Read More

Now in its fifth round, the commonwealth’s Site Readiness Program allocates funding to municipalities to ease the burden of predevelopment issues. State officials just granted a combined $3.2M to 10 municipalities across the commonwealth. Here are those sites. Read More

Three weeks after Wilmington-based Locus Robotics Corp. became a so-called "unicorn," the title of "latest Massachusetts tech company to hit a $1 billion valuation" passed into the hands of Aqua Security Software Ltd., an Israeli cybersecurity company with U.S. headquarters in Burlington. Read More

Good morning, everyone, and a beautiful start to the day. Here are the five most important things you need to know to help start your busy business day, plus Tech Madness, Boston Heroes, Polar’s latest seltzer flavor and remembering this crazy, crazy year. Read More

The Boylston Street home to a Crate & Barrel retail store would be demolished under plans for a mixed-use building filed with city planning officials. Read More

Quench Bio, a Cambridge startup that publicly launched last January with $50 million to tackle an array of inflammatory diseases, is winding down, saying that its drug target was ultimately “undruggable” using the small-molecule approach it had prioritized. Read More

“I’m hopeful things will continue to get better,” said the hospital’s CEO, Peter Slavin. “But I think there are two major risks. One is inconsistent public health approaches to control the spread of disease, and the other we don’t have much control over is the virus." Read More

Small businesses were faced with a tough choice. Under the new legislation, they won’t have to worry about it. Read More