Archive for May 2022

Fidelity Investments is among 19 investors backing Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter buyout, according to a recent SEC filing by Musk. The Tesla CEO says he recently secured $7 billion from investors to help finance the deal. Read More

Wheaton College in Norton plans to launch a new four-year bachelor’s nursing program to bring more nurses into the industry. Read More

In a new survey from the Massachusetts Nurses Association, over 80% of registered nurses said that the quality of patient care in hospitals has significantly worsened over the last two years due to the pandemic. Read More

Form D Friday is a Boston Business Journal feature highlighting regulatory filings from Boston-area companies raising capital for new projects or expanding their businesses. Read More

Amanda Gilman’s TMJ and inability to find healthy snacks on the go led to a one-woman business. Her snacks are now in more than 200 stores nationwide, including Whole Foods. Read More

BostInno found a couple of deals where large, public companies acquired Boston startups and the financial details flew under the radar. Read More

SimpliSafe Inc. plans to hire 100 new people in Boston this year, particularly software engineers, as the home security platform raised $200 million in debt funding. Read More

Massachusetts doesn’t seem an ideal place for solar energy, being pretty far north, densely crowded and otherwise largely wooded and hilly. But thanks largely to incentives, the state ranks 10th nationwide in the amount of solar energy produced here. Read More

SimSpace and the Advanced Cyber Security Center are teaming up to offer an advanced cyber defense training program to the state and leading financial, health care, tech and higher education institutions in the Boston region. Read More