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May 29, 2017
Opinion

New beer laws needed this saison

Rob Burns

Antiquated franchise regulations are holding the craft beer industry in Massachusetts captive.

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    Focus On Central Mass. 100

    MathWorks now in more than 180 countries

    Grant Welker

    MathWorks has become one of the region's largest and fastest-growing tech companies thanks to its products – as nondescript as it is – helping to run a seemingly endless list, from rockets to printing presses and artificial limbs to defense systems.

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    Briefing

    Commerce Bank to keep name following acquisition

    Laura Finaldi

    Commerce Bank branches in Worcester will keep their name and branding even after they are purchased by Berkshire Hills Bancorp, the parent company of Berkshire Bank.

  • Shop Talk
    Shop Talk

    Insurance agency logs 100 years, all on Worcester's Main Street

    Since it was founded as the Thomas Babb Insurance Agency in 1917, the Knight-Dik Insurance Agency has seen plenty of changes in both its industry and Worcester over those 100 years, all of which have been spent in various offices along Main Street.

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    Focus On Central Mass. 100

    The new EMC

    Craig A. Ruark

    Almost eight months after Dell and EMC merged together, the new company is doing quite nicely. Fears of deep cuts as the company shakes out redundancies seem unfounded.

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    Page One Story

    Telegram & Gazette striving after layoffs, succession of new owners

    Grant Welker

    The T&G has faced the same challenges as practically any other newspaper in the country: declining revenues from print subscriptions and advertisers, with online readership growing but not fast enough to offset those other declines.

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    Advice

    How to manage remote employees

    Kham Inthirath

    If you're like me, you place an incredible amount of importance on hiring – and retaining – locally based employees.

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    Focus On Central Mass. 100

    Dell further ties itself to VMware

    VMware, the virtualization software tool that powers the cloud by making it possible for multiple operating systems and functions to run on the same virtualized computer, was widely viewed as the crown jewel of Dell's acquisition of EMC last year.

  • Worcester unemployment more complex than one number

    Grant Welker

    Workers still need jobs, and companies still need workers, as career officials try to match supply to demand.

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    Focus On Central Mass. 100

    How a merger saved Athol Hospital and made Heywood stronger

    Emily Micucci

    At the time of Athol Hospital's merger with Heywood Healthcare, Athol had four days of cash on hand and one inpatient bed filled. Since then, it has swung to profitability.

  • Boylston starting to unleash sleeping giant of development

    Grant Welker

    Boylston is in line for its largest project yet, a FedEx distribution center that the town says will be a nearly $90-million investment. At about 350,000 square feet, it's nearly twice the size of a typical Walmart Supercenter.

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Today's Poll

Has your business increased its use of AI technology in the last year?
Poll Description

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester announced on Wednesday the opening of a new Health AI Assurance Laboratory, in partnership with Bedford non-for-profit research-and-development center MITRE. As artificial intelligence becomes more widely used in health care, the center is designed to provide validation for the use of the technology, to address concerns including technical robustness and safety, transparency, diversity and fairness, as well as societal and environmental well-being. The UMass Chan's center comes as more applications using AI are being developed for a wide variety of business applications, raising concerns about overreliance on the technology and its impact on employees.

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