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Previous: January 1, 2009

Thursday 01.08.2009

• Northeastern lands $9M for roads scholarship
• FHLB CEO to retire
• iRobot showcases gutter cleaner
• BJ's reports December sales gain

Wednesday 01.07.2009

• Boston Medical to pay $600K to pool
• Citizen Schools in run to pitch to Obama
• EMC to cut 2,400 jobs
• Smith College seeks millions in cuts
• Chiofaro files for aquarium garage site
• Gloucester housing nonprofit files bankruptcy
• Fund king: Bond manager on top locally
• State to post foreclosure data
• MVP Pedroia goes to bat for Salem Five
• Obama eyeing Raytheon exec for Pentagon job
• NSMT raises more than $137K
• Cumberland Farms, Gulf to share offices
• A123Systems to build plant in Mich.
• Fish & Richardson promotes six principals
• Appeals Court: Six strikes, you're out
• Emptoris receives big investment
• Underwood joins Boston Fed board
• BBJ news: Call for 2009 nominations
• First Wind hires new general counsel
• Atlantic Dev. sells Lowe’s Marketplace
• Intel cuts revenue forecast
• Private report suggests heavy job losses

Tuesday 01.06.2009

• One-time items boost state revenue
• Back Bay retail building sold for $9.6M
• Bingham names four Boston partners
• Fidelity hires ex-Evergreen CEO
• GVA Worldwide elects president
• HBR taps new editor-in-chief
• Mass. business confidence sinks to 17-year low
• Altus directors resign
• Tufts says payment impasse could force doctors to drop BCBS
• Barlow resigns from Molecular Insight board
• EnerNOC inks pact with Phoenix utility

Monday 01.05.2009

• MIT prof wins prestigious award
• Cubist receives $90M credit line
• Grinch pulled back at Citi Center
• Patriot Vince Wilfork grabs ad deal
• Mass., other states, take anti-carbon step
• Hub hotels see 21.5% revenue dive in November
• Immunogen names new CEO
• More commercial vacancy seen for Boston
• Varian cuts forecast
• Harvard dean picked for solicitor general
• Affiliated Managers postpones investment deal
• Teva to pay $7 million to Massachusetts
• Unitil puts ice storm damage at $10M
• Dunkin' launches $100M ad campaign today
• AS&E gets $2.2 million contract

Friday 01.02.2009

• Local students win national tourney
• North Shore Music Theatre gets boost
• Boston College center helps foundations
• Legacy Bancorp approved for federal funds
• Converted Organics lays groundwork
• Hazel Mae to lead Comcast’s MLB Network

Wednesday 12.31.2008

• First Marblehead, Avid, State Street hit in 2008
• Micronetics promotes Beals
• Boston bankruptcies surged in 2008
• Delisted, Pro-Pharmaceuticals lays off 3
• Good news and bad for Biopure
• WRKO changes programming
• Nuance extends offer for Zi shares
• Stop & Shop to give away generics
• New jobless claims down slightly

Tuesday 12.30.2008

• Dane Cook's manager allegedly stole millions
• Boston Foundation distributes $25M
• Genetown Hotbed map available
• Staples reduces line of credit
• Foreclosures jump year over year, fall month to month
• Synta pockets $25 million from Roche
• Eight leases signed at Nagog Park
• Verizon upgrades local service area
• $15M in life science grants available
• UpDown.com licenses stock game
• Inverness Medical to move to NYSE
• October Boston-area home prices off 6 percent

Monday 12.29.2008

• $1M goes to Mass. small biz supporters
• Purcell, Connors dismiss Globe rumors
• Boston-area tech stocks slide
• Cambridge Health may close facilities
• GDF Suez Energy buys Mass. properties
• Sonus reorganizes at the top

Wednesday 12.24.2008

• Epix wins FDA approval for Vasovist
• Celtics top Hub pro athlete salaries
• Subprime losses deepen
• Bruker CEO to take 25 percent pay cut
• Over 3,000 more working in eastern Mass.
• Boston Globe ad revenue falls
• Acushnet presses appeal in ball battle
• Mass. biotech leader fined $10K
• Softscape e-mail attack suit settled

Tuesday 12.23.2008

• Prius powers house
• Treasury buys $22M in Wainwright stock
• Investor confidence index sinks again
• Exxon-Mobil to pay $6.1M for oil spill
• Elizabeth Thomas leaving Cushman to study music
• Cumberland Farms to dole out free java
• Luxury complex lures $30.7M mortgage
• Inverness settles FTC charge
• November home sales plummet

Monday 12.22.2008

• Harrington Hospital to manage Hubbard
• Local students win innovation award
• Downturn taking toll on office market
• Voltaire grows over 4,400 percent
• Sherin & Lodgen renew recovery group
• Integrity concerns turn outward
• Survey: Suit still best for interviews
• TransMolecular welcomes orphan drug label
• Beacon Power generates $4.4M
• Bowen takes over as Abiomed CFO
• Pilgrim reactor restarted after shutdown