Professional Services

Boston-based Safety Insurance Group Inc. announced Thursday its intention to acquire Northeast-MetroWest Insurance Agency, which has offices in Westborough and Auburn.

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Fitchburg State University announced on Monday it is launching a new bachelor’s degree program in digital media innovation.

Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Tennessee-based insurance company Unum, opened an office at the One Mercantile building in Worcester, which will serve as the hub for the company’s New England operation.

Worcester Business Journal has hired Kevin Koczwara, a longtime Worcester journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Rolling Stone, as its newest staff writer.

In an active shooter situation, the difference between life and death can be a matter of seconds.

From brand development to filming and post-production, Votary has created videos for a wide variety of local and national businesses and nonprofits.

Technology firm Xceedance has opened its new global headquarters at 1 Mercantile St. in Worcester, the former Unum building.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Patricia Zhang Musacchio has been awarded $1.8 million by the National Institutes of Health for her research creating a process to help scientists create new drugs.

AKROS Development of Boston is proposing a 90,000-square-foot mixed-use skyscraper with 105 apartments at the former site of Fairway Beef, which operated in the Canal District for 75 years.