Women-owned businesses tend to start with less capital than their male-owned counterparts; but once they get off the ground, they often grow faster.
That’s the finding of a study of hiring by small businesses since the recession, prepared for the …
Big cities tend to have big pollution problems. But the very source of that bad air — tens of thousands of trips made by crawling, stalling, fuming taxi cabs — could offer city planners a more granular look at the …
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Let’s say the last time you were paying close attention to what’s going on at local publicly traded biotech firms, it was the Friday before Memorial Day and you were headed to Cape Cod. And let’s say that, …
Boston’s Oasys Water, which specializes in water treatment technology, struck a deal with a Chinese power company to purify waste water from a coal-fired plant, the company announced Tuesday.
Changzing Power Plant in Zhejiang province will use Oasys’ forward-osmosis “Zero …
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Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, SCORE has grown from one small Minneapolis office in 1964 to a national organization that boasts more than 320 chapters, attracting 12,000 volunteers annually.
The premise is simple: Bring together small business …
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The Boston Business Journal on Tuesday announced the 2014 class of 40 under 40 honorees — business and civic leaders who already are making a major impact in their respective fields and the civic life of the Boston …
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Arbella Insurance Group’s President and CEO John Donohue has been chosen to receive the 2014 Lewis Family Foundation CEO Social Leadership Award as part of the Boston Business Journal’s annual Corporate Citizenship Summit. The award, which is funded …
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Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) has acquiredZync, a cloud-based visual effects service that spun out of Boston’s Zero VFX.
Zync was founded about five years ago and offers technology for visual designers and artists in the film industry.
Terms …
Google spent $4.2 billion on mergers and acquisitions during the first half of this year, with a number of Boston area firms snapped up by the company over that time period.
But what happens to all those companies after they’re …
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Within the first twenty feet, Andrew Schmidt was sold on it. Prior to his first visit to Superpedestrian’s office in Cambridge, Schmidt knew enough about the Copenhagen Wheel to see the potential. He had been introduced to the …
