The cable MSO has already installed 100 employees at the facility and expects to have 200 employees working in the office by the end of the year.With the new positions, Comcast will have more than 1,700 employees across the state, and more than 5,000 across its greater Boston footprint. The company has 12 offices in the Granite State in communities such as Concord, Manchester, Nashua, Portsmouth and Salem."The opening of Comcast's new facility is exciting for the Hudson community and the state of New Hampshire, creating hundreds of good jobs and representing why New Hampshire is as well positioned Continue reading >>>

Posted Oct. 19, 2014 @ 10:12 am

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Sunday, October 19, 2014, 3:00am The Builders and Remodelers Association of Greater Boston (BRAGB) honored industry leaders with its annual PRISM Awards on Oct. 9. The awards recognize the projects and achievements of architects, builders, developers, interior designers, land planners, marketing and advertising firms, project owners, remodelers and other professionals in the home building industry.Competition Continue reading >>>

Sunday, October 19, 2014, 3:00am By Steve Adams Banker Tradesman Staff Greater Boston developers are moving forward on major office projects with a more speculative nature, from the Back Bay’s first office tower in over a decade to repositioning of older properties downtown and in the suburbs. A valid subscription is required to read the article or use the tool you've selected. Already a subscriber? Continue reading >>>

Lawrence Issacson led Symphony Nova musicians in a concert Friday night at Old South Church. What to do after graduation? It’s a question that haunts every music school student who faces an ever tightening and increasingly competitive job market in classical music. Fortunately for a few recent graduates in Boston, Symphony Nova is there to fill the gap between the hard work in the conservatory practice room and the longed for professional career. Organized as a professional training program for selected instrumentalists, the ten musicians of Symphony Nova are offered entrepreneurial and business Continue reading >>>

Photo courtesy of Kan Wu on Flickr MFA Boston has an exciting lineup of new art exhibits, films, and festivals in October Posted: Friday, October 17, 2014 4:31 pm | Updated: 9:54 am, Continue reading >>>

By Gintautas Dumcius State House News Service BOSTON -- Boston lawmakers on Friday met behind closed doors with top officials from Boston 2024, a nonprofit group seeking to bring the summer Olympics to the area. Boston is on the short list of cities to represent the United States in a bid for the 2024 summer Olympics, the U.S. Olympic Committee said in June. The meeting included Mayor Marty Walsh, several legislators, Boston 2024 officials and James Rooney, the executive director of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, among others. Sen. Eileen Donoghue, a Lowell Democrat, Continue reading >>>

Continue reading below The state gambling commission, through its top lawyer, has rejected claims from a corporate officer of Suffolk Downs that a Wynn Resorts casino proposal cannot legally go forward. Suffolk Downs secretary Charles A. Baker III asked commissioners on Oct. 8 to reconsider their choice of Wynn’s Everett-based project as the winner of the Greater Boston resort casino license, raising questions about the project’s viability and citing recent indictments against several sellers of the Everett property where Wynn wants to build. Catherine Blue, Continue reading >>>

The Next Boston Band is an entertaining and fascinating Ebook by the talented author, Michael Fertik. It is about Greater Boston’s top indie promoter, Mekhi Bessel, who is a likable rogue who is not above using trickery and cajoling to create concerts and events out of nothing. In Fertik’s book, Bessel finds himself on the wrong side of thugs called the Tygers brothers, who, as Fertik puts it, “cooked all the nightlife in Boston.” That is right as there is a movement going on in Boston, to try to have another great rock band come out of the city, something that has not happened since Continue reading >>>

Two robotics startups from Greater Boston debuted products this week at the RoboBusiness conference and exhibition. Just a year old, Soft Robotics presented its gentle, air-powered versatile robot grippers in public for the first time. For Sonzia, a Somerville firm that incorporated in September, it was a first public demonstration of immersive, interactive environments for children with learning disabilities. Soft Robotics showed us how a small version of the gripper, the size of a child’s hands, could pick up a variety of shapes — a ball, a set of keys, or even a prickly and delicate Continue reading >>>