Monday, August 3, 2009
By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff A new research lab will open in September at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and it will be called the Michael Egan Memorial Research Laboratory for Melanoma Translational Research, Beth Israel said. The lab,... IBasis seeks injunction against KPN offer
Associated Press IBasis Inc., a wholesale carrier of international long distance phone calls, called a buyout offer from its majority owner, Dutch telecoms company Royal KPN NV, "grossly inadequate" and sought a court injunction against it. Burlington-based iBasis said in... Mass. AG to propose economic crime package
Reuters Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley intends to unveil Monday a suite of proposed legislation to take on economic crime. The proposals will include a new "enterprise crime" statute intended to make it easier to prosecute the heads of criminal... Mass. gas prices are up 2 cents a gallon
(File photo: Lisa Poole/AP) By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff The average price for self-serve regular unleaded gas in Massachusetts rose 2 cents to $2.519 a gallon in AAA's latest weekly survey, AAA Southern New England said. The average price... Credit union said some data went missing
By Todd Wallack, Globe Staff Members Plus Credit Union said it recently discovered that a box containing account information for nearly 10,000 Massachusetts customers was lost during a move, according to a letter sent to the state's Office of Consumer... Clean Harbors profit declines in 2nd quarter
Associated Press Clean Harbors Inc., a Norwell company that provides hazardous waste management services, posted a 46 percent decline in second-quarter earnings and cut its full-year profit outlook, citing acquisition expenses and the impact of a challenging economy. For the... Google CEO leaves Apple board
Associated Press Google chief executive Eric Schmidt is resigning from Apple's board of directors as the Internet search leader increasingly develops products that compete with Apple's core businesses, including the popular iPhone. Apple Inc. said that Schmidt would have had... ImmunoGen: Early data for drug is encouraging
By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff ImmunoGen Inc., a Waltham biopharmaceutical company, reported encouraging preliminary results from its testing of a drug candidate that is a potential treatment for small-cell lung cancer, or SCLC, as well as for multiple myeloma and... Shire's Gaucher drug moves closer to market
Reuters Shire Plc's new Gaucher disease drug velaglucerase alfa moved closer to market, following positive Phase III trial results and the start of a rolling submission to US regulators. Britain's third-biggest drug maker, which has US operations in Lexington, said... Who, What, Where
Timothy Weller has been appointed as the chief financial officer at EnerNOC Inc., a Boston company whose technology helps large companies manage power usage and control costs. Weller succeeds Neal Isaacson, who served as the company's chief financial officer since... Green Mountain Coffee to sell 4m shares
Associated Press Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. said it plans to sell 4 million shares of common stock in a public offering. The Waterbury, Vt., company said in a press release that it will use the proceeds to pay down... Bruker establishes collaboration with BU lab
By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff Bruker Daltonics Inc., a Billerica compay that develops tools for the life sciences industry, said that it has established a collaboration with the Mass Spectrometry Resource laboratory of Professor Catherine Costello at the Boston University... IRS warns of First-Time Homebuyer Credit fraud
By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff The goal of the first-time homebuyer credit is to help give a lift to the stalled housing market, but don't try to pull any fast ones, the Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers. The credit,... Shaw's, Star Market expand dessert offerings
By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff The parent of Shaw's Supermarkets Inc. and its Star Market brand said it is expanding two of its store brand dessert lines as it looks to help customers pinched by the recession to get... US commercial property index sets record decline
Reuters Despite a pick up in sales, commercial real estate prices posted a record drop in the second quarter, according to an index developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Real Estate (MIT/CRE). With an 18.1 percent drop,... Today in Globe Business
Volunteers discover another path in job hunt When Claudia Deane, a research director at a Boston executive search firm, was laid off last year, she decided the best way to improve her odds of landing a new job was by... | 
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