Archive for March 2021

Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” technology has arrived in Boston, with checkout-free convenience stores inside TD Garden, home of the Boston Bruins and Celtics. Read More

The SBA recently tripled its EIDL cap to $500,000. But the plan is to upsize it even further. Read More

For months, we’ve known that messenger RNA vaccines against Covid-19, like the ones developed by Cambridge-based Moderna Inc. and Pfizer, provide a high degree of protection against the worst symptoms of the disease. What was not known was the exact degree to which the vaccines prevented infection — and thus transmission — until today. Read…

Becker’s enrollment, like many U.S. colleges, sagged considerably in recent years, with full-time enrollment in the fall off about 31% from the school’s most recent high of 2,189 in the 2016 fall semester. Read More

Stephen Taylor, the former Boston Globe executive who launched BostonGlobe.com and Boston.com in the mid-1990s, will now become founding publisher of a new nonprofit journalism site aiming to cover the New Bedford area. Read More

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co., a Boston-based publisher for nearly two centuries, has sold its consumer book publishing unit to News Corp., parent of HarperCollins Publishers. Read More

Good morning, Boston. Here are the five most important things you need to know to help start your busy business day, plus maple sugaring, Mank and bracket madness. Read More

Despite forgoing most of his base salary as part of wide-ranging cuts announced last April, Boston Scientific Corp. CEO Mike Mahoney was paid 232 times the company’s median employee in 2020. Read More

After sales of business cards took a hit because of stay-at-home orders, MOO Inc. has pivted to another paper-based product. The British printing services company, which has its U.S. headquarters in Boston, now sells non-surgical paper face masks that it touts as sustainable alternatives to single-use plastic masks. Read More

Tech and innovation news sites BostInno and Rhode Island Inno has named Miranda Perez as Inno reporter in those cities. Read More