Luca Mars did the math. Three years ago, the 19-year-old accounting student, who lives in the small Brazilian city of Várzea Alegre, 2,200 miles northeast of Rio, took a look at his mobile phone bill and knew that he couldn’t …
Mass Innovation Labs has taken the wraps off a brand new shared lab space in Cambridge. It’s the second shared biotech space in the area, joining Tech Square’s LabCentral, which opened in the summer last year.
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The Boston area is home to some of the world’s best universities, and is rapidly becoming a force to be reckoned with in global tech. But what should be a perfect match — between highly qualified students and the growing …
A new wave of entrepreneurs are trying to solve an ancient problem: ever since we began to write on papyrus (3000 BC) and whiteboards (mid-1900s), we’ve encountered the problem of lost ideas. Scraps of paper go astray, brilliant diagrams get …
Boston startup Orig3n has been showing up at marathons and triathlons with an unusual request for participants: How about parting with a vial of blood? The company is trying to build a giant library of iPS cells — that’s induced …
Construction in booming Boston has fallen into a familiar pattern: large mixed-use buildings stuffed with expensive apartments, with developers kicking in only a handful of units as affordable housing. Advocates and officials worry that if the trend continues, Boston will …
In the world of data storage, Moshe Yanai is a legendary figure.
He led development of EMC’s Symmetrix storage systems, a revolutionary product that helped EMC leap ahead of IBM in the storage market.
Yanai eventually amassed a team of …
There’s regular old junk mail, and then there’s a Publishers Clearing Housesweepstakes offer.
The company behind the doorbell-ringing Prize Patrol and glitzy envelopes teasing that “You May Have Already Won” has been around for more than 50 years, using the …
Some of the biggest names in tech are pouring more money into digital ads that can follow shoppers around the store, ready to light up a smartphone screen when marketers think the time is right for a little nudge.
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Today’s typical biotech tour may not include a swing through the lab — because there isn’t one. Chief executives now brag about the cost savings and flexibility of outsourcing everything from the design of a new drug to supervision of …
