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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:07:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50718.html One of three lawsuits Devens-based AMSC has filed against its former Chinese customer has been thrown out of court in China, a move AMSC has vowed to appeal. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50718.html Brandon Butler Daily Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:06:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50717.html Medway exercise equipment maker Cybex International Inc. will pay $19.5 million to settle a product liability lawsuit, well below the $66 million a jury initially awarded in the case. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50717.html Livia Gershon Daily Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:04:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50716.html Physicians Interactive of Marlborough says it has received a patent for a system that lets doctors order pharmaceutical samples through a web-based interface. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50716.html Livia Gershon Daily Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:03:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50715.html Marlborough-based MMA Management, which provides parking ticket revenue collection services, has leased new office space at 72 Jefferson St. in Marlborough, according to Greater Boston Commercial Properties Inc., which brokered the lease. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50715.html Livia Gershon Daily Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:01:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50714.html Worcester-based VNA Care Network & Hospice has named Mary Ann O'Connor its new president and CEO. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50714.html Livia Gershon Daily Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50713.html Massachusetts gas prices rose two cents over the past week, the seventh weekly increase in a row, according to AAA Southern New England. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50713.html Livia Gershon Daily Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:38:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50711.html The nation gained 243,000 jobs in January, largely in the private sector, and the unemployment rate continued its downward trends, falling to 8.3 percent, the government announced. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50711.html Rick Saia Daily Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:26:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50710.html St. Mary's Credit Union plans to open a new branch at the junction of routes 9 and 30 in Westborough, the Marlborough-based financial institution announced. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50710.html Rick Saia Daily Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:24:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50709.html PerkinElmer, the Waltham-based biotechnology company that bought Hopkinton's Caliper Life Sciences in November, swung to an $84 million loss in the fourth quarter from a $293 million profit during the same time period a year earlier. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50709.html Brandon Butler Daily Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:22:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50708.html Global investment consultant and fiduciary manager P-Solve of Framingham has acquired Concord-based retirement planning consultancy Cassidy Retirement Group, the company announced. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50708.html Rick Saia Daily Thu, 02 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50676.html SCORE, a nonprofit group of retired business professionals that counsels small businesses, has opened an office in Marlborough. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50676.html By Brandon Butler Web Only Tue, 31 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50663.html BTI Systems has chosen Littleton as the site for its United States headquarters. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50663.html By Brandon Butler Web Only Thu, 26 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50646.html Milford Regional Medical Center's proposed $40-million, 60,000-square-foot expansion of its intensive care and emergency departments announced this week are affirmation of the hospital's roots in the southern-495 region and a commitment to the hospital's future, organization leaders said. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50646.html Brandon Butler Web Only Thu, 19 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50587.html Two MetroWest construction subcontracting firms working on housing development projects in the state have been fined tens of thousands of dollars for allegedly failing to pay proper wages to employees, the state announced Wednesday. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50587.html Brandon Butler Web Only Tue, 17 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50575.html During a 12-year period in the 1990s into the early 2000s, researchers spent somewhere between $3 billion and $4 billion mapping the human genome, which encompasses three billion strands of DNA that make up a living organism's heredity. Now Westborough-based GenomeQuest has a software system that can basically do that same analysis for about $1,000 in a few days to a week. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50575.html Brandon Butler Web Only Tue, 10 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50502.html A Chelmsford printing company is moving within town next week to occupy about three times as much space to support its growth during the past few years. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50502.html Brandon Butler Web Only Tue, 10 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50544.html After signing a six-year lease extension to keep its corporate headquarters in Chelmsford, international workforce management firm Kronos Inc. is making a hefty investment in its building. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50544.html Brandon Butler Web Only Tue, 03 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50488.html A Hopkinton manufacturer of storage systems for life sciences and laboratory companies is constructing a new 51,000-square-foot facility in Franklin, where it expects to house 55 jobs and add more in the coming years. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50488.html Brandon Butler Web Only Thu, 29 Dec 2011 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50477.html A 22,500-square-foot industrial building in Northborough has been sold for $950,000. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50477.html Brandon Butler Web Only Tue, 27 Dec 2011 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50437.html If there's one thing planners working on a study of the Framingham Technology Park agree on, it's that the status quo is unsustainable. The park encompasses the international headquarters of MetroWest mega-employers Staples Inc., Bose Corp. and Cumberland Farms, among others, as well as the main MetroWest operations of Genzyme. It's nestled on either side of Route 9 in Framingham near Interstate 90 and stretches across numerous business parks. The Boston-based Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) is studying how to ease traffic and increase pedestrian and biker friendliness in the park. The project is part of a $4-million grant the planning agency received from the U.S. Department of Housing and Economic Development. Initial meetings of the Framingham Tech Park Advisory Board have convened and in the coming weeks and months, officials hope to reach out to businesses and residents to brainstorm ways the area can be improved. [more] http://www.wbjournal.com/news50437.html Brandon Butler Web Only Mon, 06 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50684.html 10 Things from the Feb. 6, 2012 issue. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50684.html Cindy Wright Paper Mon, 06 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50686.html In today’s economy, managers can’t assume workers are happy and won’t jump ship. There are some things to look for and build into your “to do” list to ensure staffers feel valued, energized and stick around. Here are three things to keep in mind before your best team members go to the competition. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50686.html Paper Mon, 06 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50690.html We have 240,000 people looking for work and nearly 120,000 open jobs today in Massachusetts. How can we have so much opportunity available and so many people still looking for a chance? http://www.wbjournal.com/news50690.html Gov. Deval Patrick Paper Mon, 06 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50694.html Driving down a wooded residential route in Oxford, one might not expect the headquarters of the biggest fiber laser maker in the world to suddenly appear. But it does. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50694.html Matt Pilon Paper Mon, 06 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50703.html In recent weeks, two major Massachusetts utilities, NStar and National Grid, have proposed reductions in the price customers pay for natural gas. In Behind The Sound Bite, we look at what's behind those actions. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50703.html Paper Mon, 06 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50702.html Worcester recently landed at No. 2 in a ranking of the happiest cities in America to work in. What’s got people in New England’s second-largest city smiling? According to results of a voluntary survey by the website CarrerBliss.com, Worcester laborers enjoy their coworkers, bosses and daily activities. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50702.html Paper Mon, 06 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50697.html If you were looking for a single building that could represent the fate of the real estate market over the past seven years, you couldn’t do much better than 21 Illinois St. in Worcester. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50697.html Livia Gershon Paper Mon, 06 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50689.html A political consensus is developing on Beacon Hill around the need to address the staggering cost of electricity that has long suppressed economic growth in Massachusetts. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50689.html John R. Regan Paper Mon, 06 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50696.html Westborough recruiter Audrey Brava recalls a time when she helped a client find a new employee, only to discover she had inadvertently given the firm an unpleasant surprise. The new worker had a much older spouse with some health issues. http://www.wbjournal.com/news50696.html Livia Gershon Paper Mon, 06 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST http://www.wbjournal.com/news50698.html What if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sold, in bulk, the more than 1,100 foreclosed Massachusetts properties they own to investors who promised to convert them to rental housing? http://www.wbjournal.com/news50698.html Matt Pilon Paper