Innovation of the Week: Robotic furniture boosts square-footage
“Within city limits” is a perennially popular place for young professionals all over the United States to seek housing, but studies show that even...
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Somerville's Union Square is betting big on the Green Line Extension
Some Somerville residents have been fantasizing about the T’s Green Line Extension for a long time. “Literally my whole lifetime, I think, and I’m...
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Anti-gentrification movements signify deeper issues for cities
Protesters clashed with police this June outside a Texas piñata store that was demolished and replaced by a cat cafe. The demonstrators, who scuffled...
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Off the coast of Cape Cod, renewable energy companies rush to harness the wind
Massachusetts is on the cusp of an explosion in offshore wind energy. The ocean shelf off Cape Cod holds an untapped 1,600 megawatts of wind energy—...
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My First Job: Learning efficiency on the assembly line at Lego
Steve Auerbach is chief executive officer of Waltham, Mass.-based Alegeus, a company that provides technology and services to administer healthcare...
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Startups have big ambitions in the nation's smallest state
In its bid to cultivate a new image of itself as an unsung haven for startups, the city of Providence, Rhode Island, is a bit like a younger sibling...
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DraftKings, FanDuel spike merger under pressure from FTC
Daily fantasy sports website DraftKings is abandoning a merger with its main rival FanDuel. The abrupt announcement comes on the eve of a high-...
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My First Job: A dishwasher's path to upper management
Dana Ball is executive director of T1D Exchange, a nonprofit that aggregates data from patients with type 1 diabetes in order to help researchers...
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Fintech startup expands to meet growing need for medical loans
In a wine cellar three years ago, four finance industry veterans launched a company to lend money through a web-based platform to people who don’t...
