Archive for August 2021

After a group backed by Uber and Lyft announced a ballot question over the benefits of drivers and other ride-share workers, opponents of such measure asked state regulators to launch an investigation over the group’s alleged violation of state campaign finance laws. Read More

The 45,000-square-foot research and development facility will include clinical manufacturing space for vaccines. Read More

Shortly after reporting earnings for the latest quarter, Boston-based DraftKings Inc. said it plans to acquire the online gaming operator of NBA’s Houston Rockets owner and Houston billionaire Tilman Fertitta. Read More

Hospitals and physician offices perform 3.6 billion imaging procedures annually worldwide, generating reams of data. GE Healthcare and AWS want to make the data more accessible. Read More

The last chancellor, Robert Johnson, left UMass Dartmouth last year to become the president of Western New England University in Springfield. Read More

Guy Hudson is a marketing programs manager in the Boston office of ZoomInfo, a global go-to-market enterprise SaaS leader. Hudson caught the attention of Boston Speaks Up when he posted several inspiring messages on social media, including a ZoomInfo corporate video he recorded for Juneteenth. Read More

While campus activism is nothing new, expectations are mounting among students, alumni and faculty that changes will be made. Read More

Commercial real estate finance firm Walker & Dunlop Inc. this year launched CREUnited, an alliance of industry heavyweights and minority-owned businesses working to increase minority representation and participation. Read More

This week’s filing deadline for proposed ballot initiatives was only the first in a formidable series of hurdles that proponents must clear to get on the ballot in November 2022. Read More

Just one year after launching with the sole mission of advancing antibodies to both treat and prevent Covid-19, Adagio Therapeutics has hit the Nasdaq, raising $309 million in an IPO. Read More