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For wind power to take a firmer hold, there's still a missing ingredient: data. Wind Pole Ventures is building a business as an information broker, gathering more accurate wind speed information for sale to wind farm developers.

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Bidding is to start at $68 million on bankrupt trucking company Gainey Corp. , with a ruling Thursday making an Arizona private equity firm the stalking horse in the auction process.

Nariman Behravesh , chief economist for IHS Global Insight, comments on the September 2009 USA Today/IHS Global Insight Economic Outlook Index in this video posted September 25, 2009.

It was the Strand, the RKO Keith and the Merrimack Square in Lowell that brought movie fans in for first-run flicks in classy surroundings.

Home prices rose for the third-straight month in August, a key ingredient for a broad and sustained housing recovery.

Andover, Massachusetts is starting a pilot project that will use grazing goats to maintain a 3.5-acre meadow.

RailRunner, developer of a container-based intermodal transport system, signed a 10-year agreement under which its products will be manufactured, operated, distributed and sold in India by Kolkata-based Stone India through Stone's wholly owned subsidiary, Stone Intermodal.

Today's biotech entrepreneurs are confronting medical conditions head-on with innovative technologies -- some changing the way new procedures are marketed, others looking to drive down health care costs altogether.

Lexington, MA - October 16, 2009 - The manufacturing sector should see increased performance in 2010, but manufacturers will continue to be challenged by complex, global supply chains and more pressure for faster new product introductions, according to Stan Gwizdak , the new vice president for manufacturing at consulting firm Celerant .

In anticipation of the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival , where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going? Teresa Cader used to think of herself as a child of Europe.

W Hotel general manager, William Bunce. General manager William Bunce will introduce the city to what he calls the W Hotels' "world of wow'' when the W Boston opens in the Theatre District on Oct.

Concerned about Social Security recipients, veterans, and people on disability payments struggling to make ends meet, President Obama is asking Congress to send them each a $250 check next year - " similar to the checks they received in May as part of the economic stimulus legislation.

U.S. consumer prices edged up in September, the number of workers filing new claims for jobless benefits dropped to a nine-month low last week and New York state factory activity perked up this month, more proof the economy was healing after a protracted recession.

Rhode Island's hospitality industry sustained serious blows during the economic downturn, but experts say it can expect a slow but steady ride toward recovery.

Compuware, the downtown-based software firm, has grown with its recent acquisition of the Massachusetts-based Gomez .

MassDevice last week attended the MassMEDIC 11th Annual Medtech Investors Conference and is reporting back on some of the startups that presented innovative technologies.

The Merrimack Valley Chorus will host a "Performance Opportunity Program" for females during four consecutive Thursdays beginning Oct.

Compuware, an application performance management software company, said it expects the deal to close in November.

Streambase Systems announced today the availability of a complete library of standard order execution algorithms that are integrated into its algorithm development platform and are designed to help speed up production times for the creation of new algorithmic strategies.