Archive for May 2021

Brown Rudnick was approved for a $6.7 million PPP loan last April, among the largest loans awarded to a Massachusetts-based professional services firm. Its 2020 financials were made public this week. Read More

The coworking giant had leased 131,042 square feet at 745 Atlantic Ave., where landlord Oxford Properties Group says it has not paid rent since March. Read More

Locus Robotics, maker of fulfillment-warehouse robots, was already growing fast thanks to the rise of e-commerce. Then Covid hit, speeding its revenue enough to make it the number one company on this year’s Fast 50 list. Read More

Instead of worrying about its business possibly shrinking as a result of the pandemic, the pharmacy-benefits platform provider’s main concern last year was managing its spectacular revenue growth. It ended the year at in #2 on this year’s Fast 50 list. Read More

The Waltham-based defense contractor has a 32 million-square-foot footprint of facilities. Read More

Municipal leaders and local boards of health ought to resist pressure to extend the mask mandate beyond the state’s restrictions. Doing so creates even more confusion among residents and consumers, with conflicting mandates in different cities and towns, frustrating attempts to get the economy back on track. Read More

Desktop Metal Inc. in Burlington and Markforged Inc. in Watertown, two of the three largest 3D printing companies based in Massachusetts, have recently been in the news after opting to go public via a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. But the third of those companies, Somerville-based Formlabs Inc., has declined to talk with the…

After a strategic review, the Boston-based bank intends to lend more to small businesses, strike new partnerships with financial services technology firms, and close more branches, according to CEO Nitin Mhatre. Read More

Raytheon Technologies, regularly a top corporate lobbying spender nationally as a major defense company, is among firms whose funds have quietly returned to members of Congress after pledging to reassess donations after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Read More