From: bostonglobe.com
BERLIN — Germany’s Parliament on Friday approved a quota system that will require leading companies in Europe’s biggest economy to have at least 30 percent women on their supervisory boards starting next year.
The quota will apply to …
From: bostonglobe.com
In the late 1980s, Jon Hirschtick was part of one of those fresh-from-the-lab MIT start-ups in Kendall Square. He and his co-founders were in their 20s, and they understood more than most people about how computers were about …
Here’s the good news: The median weekly earnings of full-time workers in Massachusetts in 2013 was higher than in any other state in the country, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday.
The not-so-good news? Women in the state …
In the years since the financial crisis, the central banks of most advanced countries have been trying to restore growth by pumping money into their economies and buying up government debt and other assets, a process known as quantitative easing.…
Although many attendees on Twitter and some in the crowd had complaints about this year’s TechCrunch Boston Meetup + Pitch-off at the Estate, the event ran much more smoothly and was far more entertaining than it was last year.
The …
On Thursday evening, ten local startups will take the stage at the Boston TechCrunch Meetup + Pitchoff to compete for a spot at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York City. TechCrunch’s East Coast editor John Biggs and reporter Jordan …
Just as the Internet has learned to track your digital habits, sending you ads that follow your buying and surfing patterns, programmatic television advertising promises to make television ads more direct and personalized to consumers’ habits.
This week, Somerville-based programmatic …
At Microsoft NERD on Thursday, some of the best up-and-coming local startups stepped onto the stage at the 1776 Challenge Cup and pitched their visions on how to improve the world.
1776 is a global incubator and seed fund started …
Boston-based startup accelerator MassChallenge has revealed two partnerships that will promote female entrepreneurship and help assist midcareer job changes in the startup ecosystem.
On Tuesday, MassChallenge announced a partnership with Startup Institute that it hopes will benefit early-stage companies and …
Your company is throwing a cocktail shindig and you need someone to staff the check-in table for two hours. How do you fill that kind of extremely short-term gig?
A startup with roots on two local campuses, Jobble, has built …
