Tue. Oct. 11, 2011 Survey: Few employees want to be the boss
Roughly 75 percent of employees say they have little desire to be the boss. So concludes a new survey from OfficeTeam, a division of the staffing firm Robert Half International Inc. The survey is pegged to National Boss Day, which falls on Oct. 17 this year. Another survey finding: Of employees interviewed, 65 percent said they didn’t think they could do a better job than their boss. Mass. gas prices drop 4 cents a gallon
The average price for gas in Massachusetts was $3.419 a gallon in the latest weekly survey from AAA, down 4 cents from the previous week’s average, AAA Southern New England said this morning. The current Massachusetts average is almost 25 cents a gallon lower than it was a month ago. The current national average is $3.39 a gallon. A year ago at this time, the Massachusetts average was $2.73 a gallon. Outcome Sciences is working with the NFL to track football injuries
Outcome Sciences Inc., a Cambridge company that provides services and technologies focused on evaluating safety, effectiveness, and quality in health care, is helping the National Football League to update its injury surveillance system. Part of Outcome’s mission is to help analyze NFL injury data and to support related medical research. Accurately tracking and analyzing injuries in professional football is the first step towards ultimately reducing their incidence and severity, the company says. TA Associates invests in Aicent
TA Associates, a private equity firm with offices in Boston, said it has made a “significant investment” in Aicent Inc., a California company that provides data network, messaging, and roaming services to telecom network operators worldwide. Terms of the investment were not disclosed. Aicent customers include AT&T, Verizon, Deutsche Telecom, China Mobile, and China Telecom. TA has a long history of investing in the telecom sector. Evergreen Solar plants to be auctioned
Michigan company says it has been appointed by the US Bankruptcy Court to auction off Evergreen Solar Inc.’s $425 million manufacturing plant in Devens and other assets. Bind Biosciences to relocate to 325 Vassar St. in Cambridge
Biopharmaceutical company Bind Biosciences Inc. has signed a lease to relocate to larger space in Cambridge, said a broker involved in the transaction. The broker is Richards Barry Joyce & Partners LLC. Bind Biosciences currently leases about 28,000 square feet at locations at 64 and 88 Sidney St. in Cambridge. It has signed a lease for 32,800 square feet of office and lab space at 325 Vassar St. Richards Barry Joyce represented BioMed Realty Trust, 325 Vassar St.’s owner, in the transaction. Program to help unemployed homeowners leaves millions of dollars on the table
Fewer than 12,000 families nationwide -- 568 of them in Massachusetts -- have been tentatively approved for the program first meant to help 30,000 homeowners facing foreclosure with up to $50,000 in no-interest loans over a two-year period. This means even fewer people will eventually pass final eligibility hurdles over the next few weeks, leaving at least $568 million allotted for the program unused and turned back to the US Treasury Department. Nuance buys Swype for $100 mil
Nuance Communications Inc. of Burlington, maker of speech recognition software like Dragon Naturally Speaking, has spent $102.5 million to acquire Swype Inc. of Seattle. Swype makes software to allow users of touchscreen devices to type words on a keyboard by dragging a finger from letter to letter, rather than tapping the screen. New England power grid facing challenges
The low price of natural gas and an aging fleet of soon-to-be-obsolete power plants are among several factors that could dramatically change New England’s power grid, says the region’s electricity grid manager. And those changes could threaten reliable electricity delivery if not addressed, according to an analysis by ISO New England. The report says the region is increasingly relying on natural gas for both heat and electrical power, and must build capacity to handle simultaneous spikes in demand for both uses. Comcast offers tips for parents on talking to their kids about keeping safe online
Comcast has set up a special website designed to help parents in talking to their children about their online activities. Access to the website is free, and it’s open to everyone, not just Comcast customers. The guides were created by Dr. Michael Rich, director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Children’s Hospital Boston. Comcast also offers additional layers of online security features that Comcast Internet customers can opt to pay extra for. Billboards from Clear Channel Outdoor help UMass and Cellucci fight ALS
Billboard company Clear Channel Outdoor said it is donating ad space on seven of its highway billboards to support former Governor Paul Cellucci in his fight against ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Earlier this year, Cellucci disclosed that he has ALS, and he is now helping the University of Massachusetts Medical School in its efforts to raise funds for ALS research. Clear Channel’s donated billboards are promoting the UMass/ALS Champion Fund. | 
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