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Group Behind Alcohol E-Commerce Platform Drizly Launches Cannabis Company In Massachusetts
Thursday, May 7, 2020 - 12:35pm | 212The group behind Drizly, a Boston-based alcohol e-commerce, has launched Lantern, a website that serves as a third-party cannabis provider, providing online ordering and delivery of cannabis to certified medical cannabis patients in Boston. The company guarantees a 60-minutes-or-less delivery time...
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Ascend Wellness Obtains Provisional License For Boston Dispensary
Friday, January 10, 2020 - 2:35pm | 252Vertically-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...
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This Day In Market History: John Hancock Co-Founds Bank Of Massachusetts
Friday, July 5, 2019 - 2:31am | 337Each 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...
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NBA Finals Game 5 Prices Are The Most Expensive Sporting Event This Ticket Firm Has Ever Tracked
Monday, June 10, 2019 - 2:16pm | 310The 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...
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Macau Still Risky, But Morgan Stanley Sees 30% Upside In Wynn Resorts
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 - 8:29am | 292Morgan Stanley’s Thomas Allen upgraded the rating on Wynn Resorts, Limited (NASDAQ: WYNN) to Overweight, with a price target of $120. Upside Potential While pointing out that the company had navigated the deteriorating Asian gaming market proficiently, and that the market appeared to be...
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Chipotle's Headline Risk Is Back And Legal Risks Remain, Maxim Warns
Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 10:20am | 383Chipotle 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...
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Cost Of Olympic Games Deters Potential Host Boston
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 7:41am | 348On 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...
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Google Glass Can Save Lives
Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 8:59am | 593All 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...
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Rumor: Amazon Game Console to Launch in 2014
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 10:43am | 544Amazon (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...
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Fortune Magazine's Best Places To Work
Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 12:14pm | 685Do 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...
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Additional AOL Patch Local News Sites Lose Staff
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 1:31pm | 581AOL (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...
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Report: One in Five Yelp Reviews is Bogus (YELP)
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 9:57am | 604A 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:...
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Time Warner Brings Out New Weapon In Dispute With CBS (TWC, CBS)
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - 11:15am | 588In 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...
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Psychemedics Gives Stoners a Hair-Pulling Experience
Monday, November 7, 2011 - 1:31pm | 823Whether you're a pill-popper, a pot-head or a crack-head, Psychemedics (NASDAQ: PMD) has the technology to sniff you out before your potential employer offers you a job. Utilizing hair analysis technology, this smaller, Boston-area company delves into a potential employee's recent drug history,...
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Mercury Solar Systems to Invest $9 Million in Massachusetts, Creating 40 New Jobs
Monday, October 17, 2011 - 2:22pm | 367The New York-based solar energy installer is coming to a town just 11 miles west of Boston. Mercury Solar Systems, which describes itself as one of the leading solar integrators on the East Coast, is planning to open new operations in Waltham, MA. “Massachusetts has embraced solar energy over...