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Vertically-integrated cannabis company, Ascend Wellness Holdings said Thursday its subsidiary, Ascend Mass, obtained provisional license from the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission for its dispensary. The company said this will be the biggest dispensary on the East Cost, and the first...

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On this day 234 years ago, John Hancock co-founded the Bank of Massachusetts. Where The Market Was The Bank of Massachusetts predates the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P...

The opportunity to watch the Toronto Raptors try to close out the NBA Finals on Monday night and witness Canadian basketball history won't come cheap. In fact, the tickets are so expensive on the secondary market, TicketIQ says it's the most expensive finals game they have ever tracked in...

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE: CMG) has had quite a year of it as the embattled company struggles to regain customer and investor confidence following a series of wide-spread, national foodborne illnesses. While E. coli scares appeared to fade for a few weeks, a recent forced closure in...

On Monday, the U.S. Olympic Committee announced that it would replace Boston with another U.S. city in the nation's bid to host the 2024 Olympic games. The Massachusetts city would have been up against places like Paris, Rome and Budapest to host the games, but ultimately concerns about sky high...

All things being equal, the more useful a product, the more sales it would generate. Products deemed lifesaving fall into a category all by themselves. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Glass might be such a product – at least when it comes to medical and military applications. The Google Glass device...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) kept saying it was not developing a set-top box, but rumors have continued. Most recently, VG 24/7 reported an Android game console was in the works and would retail for “less than $300.” Multiple sources told VG 24/7 that in addition to games, the new system would offer...

Do you work for Google? If so, congratulations! And, stay where you are because your employer is number one (for the fifth time) in Fortune magazine’s 17th annual list of the 100 best companies to work for. If you are looking for a job, or looking to change jobs, and Google isn’t in your...

AOL (NYSE: AOL) owned hyper-local news website, Patch, which had 1000 writers working in 900 national locations in December 2012, is now down to 14 designated market areas (DMAs). New Patch CEO Bud Rosenthal outlined the move in a memo Wednesday morning reported on Poynter. Rosenthal said the...

A recent report titled, Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud, by assistant Harvard Business School professor Michael Luca and Georgios Zervas, assistant professor of marketing at Boston University, determined that 20 percent of reviews submitted on Yelp (NYSE:...

In another all-too-common television programming contract dispute – this time between CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Time Warner Cable(NYSE: TWC) – a new player has emerged, according to The New York Times. It’s Aereo, the upstart startup that figured out a way to bypass the retransmission fees companies...