Technology

Framingham’s BERG, a clinical-stage biotech company using artificial intelligence to research diseases, has teamed up with the COVID-19 research team working on the Summit supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

A trio of researchers at UMass Medical School in Worcester are attacking the coronavirus pandemic from three different angles, as part of a $17-million Massachusetts effort to help the world combat the disease which has killed more than 400,000 people globally.

In a flash this spring, Reliant Medical Group in Worcester was suddenly using video and phone technology to have patients meet with health providers for about a quarter of the visits that used to take place in person.

Southborough’s RxAdvance is a smaller player in an industry dominated by giants like CVS’ Caremark or Express Scripts.

Natick software company Mathworks has donated $1 million to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Combating COVID-19 Fund.

Central Massachusetts organizations making hires and promotions recently include Cornerstone Bank, Rollstone Bank & Trust, UMass Memorial Health Care and Covectra.

Quickly picking up on technology has become a necessary skill these days for museums more accustomed to bringing in crowds to see artwork, watch and hear animals in their habitats, or experience first-hand the wonders of science.

Savvy Central Mass. social media managers all seem to report the same phenomenon, which is a business owner’s dream: post a product online and see it fly off the shelves.

Worcester video game developer Petricore Inc. marked its five-year anniversary on Tuesday, celebrating, among other milestones, earning nearly $2 million in revenue and making products for "The Ellen Degeneres Show," the company announced in a press release.

Derek Canton has made a shift during the coronavirus pandemic from developing a restaurant app for dining rooms to one offering a safer and more secure method for takeout and delivery, he said during an interview on the WBJ Podcast.