Startups

Worcester Polytechnic Institute student Panagiotis Argyrakis' background as DJ, and his passion for music drove him to an innovative solution: an automated party lighting system.

The Worcester CleanTech Incubator has been awarded a $120,000 grant and has launched a partnership with Cambridge marketing firm Hubspot for Startups, the organization announced Monday.

Slowey/McManus Communications, a strategic communications firm based in Boston, has opened a small Worcester office in an effort to branch out to clients in Central Massachusetts.

A company that grows marijuana in Milford and processes pot plans to launch a small-business accelerator program that it is billing as the first in the nation.

As piercing and tattoos have become more mainstream, Marc Williams' relocated his Piercing Emporium & Tattoo to a unique copper-colored building on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester.

1) Have a mentor who truly cares about you. 2) Overcome the “I Quit” moments. 3) Focus on customers first.

Becker College's fourth school - the School of Humanities and Social Sciences - will open on July 1, teaching criminal justice, legal studies, education, psychology and the humanities to Becker students.

For most of its nearly century of history, Worcester's Printers Building has been just as its name...

The Colleen C. Barrett Center for Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which will enable growth of Becker College's renown video game design program, will receive an official grand opening ceremony Wednesday with state and other officials.

The Marlborough company is bringing Nobel Prize-winner Craig Mello's work into a burgeoning field of cancer research.