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Circle furniture auction

Circle Furniture Is Auctioning Everything — Stores Close After Bankruptcy

There is something quietly sad about watching a furniture store get auctioned off piece by piece. A sofa that someone spent weeks choosing. A desk that sat in a showroom for months waiting for the right buyer. Staging artwork that dressed up windows in eight different Massachusetts towns. For Circle Furniture — a retailer that […]

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Moderna story

The Untold Story of Moderna: From a Harvard Lab to the Arms of Billions

There is a moment in 2009 that, in hindsight, changed the trajectory of modern medicine. Derrick Rossi, a stem cell biologist at Harvard Medical School, was working late in his lab on a problem that had fascinated — and frustrated — scientists for decades: how to reprogram adult human cells to behave like embryonic stem

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Foxborough Real Estate

A Brand-New Foxborough Apartment Complex Just Sold for $20.4 Million

Foxborough is better known for Gillette Stadium and Patriots game days than for headline-grabbing real estate deals. But a transaction that quietly closed this week is putting the town on the investment map for a very different reason. Foxmeadow Farm, a luxury apartment community at 29 Wall Street in the heart of Foxboro, has changed

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boston innovation companies

Boston Places Five Companies on the World’s Most Exclusive Innovation List

Every year, LexisNexis publishes a list that the financial and scientific world tends to treat as a quiet but credible report card on global innovation. The Top 100 Global Innovators ranking does not measure press releases or funding rounds or how many times a CEO appeared on a podcast. It is built on something harder

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Fidelity secret history

The Secret History of Fidelity: How a Boston Lawyer Built the World’s Quiet Financial Giant

There is a company headquartered in Boston that manages more money than the GDP of every country on earth except the United States and China. It employs more than 78,000 people. It administers $17.5 trillion in assets and oversees $6.8 trillion in discretionary investments. It processes millions of trades every single day, manages retirement accounts

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Whoop Boston Hiring

Wearable tech company WHOOP Is Hiring 600 People. Boston Should Pay Attention

While most of the tech world spent the first weeks of 2026 announcing layoffs, Boston’s WHOOP went in the opposite direction. On March 4, the Kenmore Square-based wearable health company announced it would add more than 600 new employees over the course of the year — a move that would increase its current workforce of

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Kendall Square analysis

The Kendall Square Effect: The Most Valuable Square Mile in Science

There is a stretch of Cambridge, Massachusetts — barely a square mile in size — that has quietly become the most consequential piece of real estate in global science. On any given morning, the Red Line deposits researchers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and executives from companies like Moderna, Biogen, Google, and Takeda onto the same sidewalks.

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