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AS&E hosts Rep. Tierney, urges secure borders, immigration reform 27 Aug 2013 | 06:43 pm
On Monday, the president and CEO of American Science and Engineering Inc. (Nasdaq: ASEI) urged Congressman John Tierney to ensure that border entry points into the U.S. are secure to prevent the smugg...
Waters Corp. CEO Douglas Berthiaume to retire 27 Aug 2013 | 05:39 pm
Waters Corp. (NYSE: WAT) announced this morning that chief executive Douglas Berthiaume, 64, will retire within 24 months. He's been CEO of the Milford, Mass., lab equipment and software company since...
Mario Batali's Fort Point restaurant project is officially dead 27 Aug 2013 | 05:27 pm
Celebrity chef Mario Batali has a plan to open a high-end pizzeria and wine bar in Boston's red-hot Fort Point neighborhood. As they say, there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. "Not looking ...
Syndax raises $26.6M to test resistance-reversing cancer drug 27 Aug 2013 | 05:21 pm
Waltham, Mass. biotech Syndax Pharmaceuticals Inc. has raised $26.6 million in equity to pay for a late-stage trial of its drug candidate intended to reverse resistance to therapies used for advanced ...
Berkshire Health Systems completes 1st phase of its new cancer center 27 Aug 2013 | 04:58 pm
Construction is finished on the first phase of a new, $30 million cancer center, part of Berkshire Medical Center's Hillcrest campus in Pittsfield, Mass. The first phase of the four-story, 49,893-squ...
Liberty Mutual to cut back worker retirement benefits 27 Aug 2013 | 04:44 pm
Boston insurer Liberty Mutual is cutting back insurance coverage for retirees, scaling back pension benefits and reducing its maximum matching contribution to employee retirement plans. Former chief e...
Harvard's Lawrence Lessig sues music publisher over YouTube takedown 27 Aug 2013 | 04:31 pm
Harvard Law School professor and intellectual property activist Lawrence Lessig has sued over a video of one of his lectures that was removed from YouTube after a music publisher alleged the video inf...
Hands-on review: BlockAve's CO Everywhere needs a filter 27 Aug 2013 | 04:16 pm
When the startup formerly known as BlockAve was working on a pivot last month, I got an early look at it. Instead of aggregating historical data like crime and schools, the Boston-based company had an...
Judge tosses BofA lawsuit vs. FDIC 27 Aug 2013 | 03:28 pm
A federal judge in Washington has dismissed with prejudice Bank of America's claim against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) over $1.7 billion in losses tied to mortgage fraud at Taylor, Bean...
Nine from Mass. will head to Davos 27 Aug 2013 | 03:18 pm
The World Economic Forum has named nine Massachusetts firms to its 2014 list of "Technology Pioneers" – four biotechs, a robotics firm, a water technology company and a developer of wireless energy. ...
