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Biotech giant Genzyme has bought a 12-percent stake in Cambridge-based Alnylam Pharmaceuticals in an investment valued at $700 million, Genzyme announced today.

Data science applications provider Prelert, of Framingham, has announced an agreement with an IT consulting and professional services firm that will boost sales for its signature product, the company said. The product, Anomaly Detective, will be offered by the consulting and services firm, Turnberry Solutions, to customers in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic that use the Splunk Enterprise environment. Splunk helps convert data into insight for businesses.

Leaving his post at president of Kutztown University in Kutztown, Penn. for the same job at Framingham State University will bring F. Javier Cevallos into familiar territory. “In a way, it's like going back home,” said Cevallos, who was hired as a Spanish professor for the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1984 and, through the years, advanced to vice chancellor for student affairs before leaving for Kutztown in 2002.

A former professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is being recommended as the next president of Framingham State University.

Staples is expanding its program that allows home and business owners to control energy use from handheld devices, according to announcement today from the Framingham-based office supply retailer and the company it has partnered with in the venture.

Framingham-based Gulf Oil LP announced Monday it will enter the commercial and industrial fuel supply business.

Staples will next week begin selling everything from cleaning products to technology to breakroom snacks, the Framingham-based retailer announced today.

Federal regulators formally rejected Genzyme's multiple sclerosis (MS) treatment over concerns about trial design and potentially serious side effects, the Cambridge-based drug maker said Monday.

With the Greater Boston commercial real estate market saying goodbye to 2013 with a strong fourth quarter,...

Framingham-based Global Technology Systems announced that its batteries and mobile device chargers will no longer have the Honeywell brand name.