Been a long time coming, and the full-page ad on page B3 yesterday kind of put an arrow through the heart. The full-page Globe ad says they are committed to supporting our community with the latest information on the COVID-19 vaccine, from who's eligible to where and how to get vaccinated -- the Globe's here to help you every step of the way. For more information and resources on the COVID-19 vaccine, please visit Globe.com/vaccine
Made page B7 today, and for them to be pushing the poison while obfuscating and omitting deaths and adverse reactions is reprehensibly criminal at this stage.
The is literally $elling you an agenda every day no matter what the topic:
"Selling love and romance in the time of COVID-19; Retailers and matchmakers adjust to the strangeness of this Valentine’s Day" by Janelle Nanos Globe Staff, February 12, 2021
How do you spice up a pandemic?
A bizarre question, perhaps, but for retailers whose revenues tend to surge every year in mid-February, it’s been an increasingly pressing issue. Consider the circumstances, which might make Cupid cringe: We’re home all day and night. We’re anxious. We’re wearing sweat pants an inordinate amount of time, and we’re around our partners 24/7, and for the uncoupled, it’s that much harder to find love in an era of social distancing and Zoom dates.
Suffice it to say that for many, Valentine’s Day isn’t exactly top of mind.
In fact, nearly 40 percent of Americans are planning to skip the day of hearts and roses to save money this year, according to a LendingTree survey, and the National Retail Federation expects consumer spending on their sweethearts to dip to $21.8 billion this year, down 20 percent from last year’s record splurge of $27.4 billion.
That poses a unique challenge for the brands and industries that tend to traffic in romance, from restaurants to florists. COVID-19 has already made doing business exponentially harder. It’s now forcing many in the love-game to contemplate the impossible: How exactly does one spark romance — and sales — during a global health crisis?
“Normally romance should be all year round, but the world we’re living in now makes that a lot more challenging. No romantic dinners, you don’t even have an opportunity to go on dates, because where do you go? It’s 10 degrees out,” said James Michael Sama, a Boston-area relationship coach who has seen his matchmaking business dwindle during the pandemic.
With yet another go-to date night disrupted, local restaurateurs are attempting to adapt, but nearly a year into the pandemic, it’s not just hard to motivate diners to eat indoors. People are so exhausted that it’s tough to muster up the enthusiasm to be romantic at all.
“Everyone is sick of each other,” lamented Luke Beardslee, general manager of Osteria Nino in Burlington, and so a trickle of Valentine’s Day dinners this year is making him scramble.
I don't what world in which the $tinking elite of the Bo$ton Globe live, but I'm glad I don't live in that world.
You know what I'm sick of, right?
For businesses that have seen a slowdown already this year, a dip in V-day sales will be an additional sting. “There are people who are like, I can’t handle the idea of romance right now, I don’t want to be near my partner at all,” said Rachel Wentworth, co-owner of Forty Winks, a lingerie store in Cambridge. Another subset, she added, are “not in a long-term relationship or are not dating” because of the pandemic.
So she’s adapting the store’s outreach this year to fit the times we’re in. “We’re trying to be really consistent with our marketing and messaging, saying, ‘We know that we’re stuck at home, let’s have fun, either by yourself or with a partner, however you want to indulge during this season, we’re here for you,’ ” she said, and Wentworth has also been noticing an eyebrow-raising trend.
“There are so many people who are like, ‘I have to spice things up, I’m so bored,’ ” she said. “We’ve been selling way more pieces that are over-the-top. There’s this element of ‘we’re home anyway, let’s go all out.’ ” Plunging necklines, bodysuits, and open gussets are big sellers. The more risqué, she said, the better.
Yeah, add more porn to the web.
Some say a yearlong, soul-crushing pandemic is all the more reason to seek out a little affection.
“You have to take advantage of the opportunities to be romantic. To make the day to reconnect and rekindle your relationship. We need to use it as an excuse to celebrate,” said Sama, the relationship coach.
For some businesses, hopeful signs are already very much underway.....
So how are those contract talks coming?
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Owner Julie Ben-David, who runs the shop with her husband, Avi, said it is "absolutely devastating and of all weeks for this to happen.”
Time for me to take a hike before getting trapped like a cat on a hot tin roof in a burning tree and getting an arrow through the heart.
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Speaking of those who won't die:
The Globe provides you with New York $limes analysis and Associated Pre$$ fact-checking as the
speedy impeachment trial headed toward a vote where GOP senators face big decision regarding their job.
"Trump acquitted of inciting insurrection, even as bipartisan majority votes ‘guilty’" by Nicholas Fandos The New York Times, February 14, 2021
WASHINGTON — Under the watch of National Guard troops still patrolling the historic building, a bipartisan majority voted to find former President Donald Trump guilty of the House’s single charge of incitement of insurrection. They included seven Republicans, more members of a president’s party than have ever returned an adverse verdict in an impeachment trial, but with most of Trump’s party coalescing around him, the 57-43 tally fell 10 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict him and to allow the Senate to move to disqualify him from holding future office.
Among the Republicans breaking ranks to find guilty the man who led their party for four tumultuous years, demanding absolute loyalty, were Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Patrick Toomey of Pennsylvania.
Not McConnell?
The verdict brought an abrupt end to the fourth presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history, and the only one in which the accused had left office before being tried, but it was unlikely to be the final word for Trump, his badly divided party, or the sprawling criminal and congressional investigations into the assault.
It left behind festering wounds in Washington and around the nation after a 39-day stretch unlike any in the nation’s history.....
Former president Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Georgia in January (Brynn Anderson/Associated Press)
Looks like they are happy to be seeing the back of him, 'eh?
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It's another witch hunt -- which is where the Globe sent me because I got Aaron Blake and his four final takeaways, pfft, along with more evidence the GOP isn't ready to move beyond Trump from the New York $limes with trial highlights from the Associated Pre$$ and Biden seeks to turn the page and move past impeachment to try and push forward their agenda.
The problem is, the disinformation problem has been 70 years in the making (it will be complete when everything the American public believes is false), as it has been cultivated with great joy even though the US is less polarized than you might think (according to Schonfeld and Winter-Levy).
Forgotten amidst it all is the stolen election that has been dismissed by the pre$$ wi$e guys and $elf-$erving party hacks.
Now back to bu$ine$$ a$ u$ual:
"President Biden met with a bipartisan group of governors and mayors at the White House on Friday as part of his push to give financial relief from the coronavirus pandemic to state and local governments — a clear source of division with Republican lawmakers who view the spending as wasteful. As part of a $1.9 trillion coronavirus package, Biden wants to send $350 billion to state and local governments and tribal governments. While Republicans in Congress have largely objected to this initiative, Biden’s push has some GOP support among governors and mayors....."
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Republicans won't be winning anymore elections anyway:
"Biden administration to allow 25,000 asylum-seekers into US" by Elliot Spagat Associated Press, February 12, 2021
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday announced plans for tens of thousands of asylum-seekers waiting in Mexico for their next immigration court hearings to be allowed into the United States while their cases proceed.
The first of an estimated 25,000 asylum-seekers in Mexico with active cases will be allowed in the United States on Feb. 19, authorities said. They plan to start slowly with two border crossings each processing up to 300 people a day and a third crossing taking fewer. Administration officials declined to name them out of fear they may encourage a rush of people to those locations.
Will they be tested for CV (the answer is NO!)?
This also comes as Biden threatens to restrict citizen travel within the U.S.
The move is a major step toward dismantling one of former president Trump’s most consequential policies to deter asylum-seekers from coming to the United States. About 70,000 asylum-seekers were enrolled in “Remain in Mexico,” officially called “Migrant Protection Protocols,” since it was introduced in January 2019.
On Biden’s first day in office, the Homeland Security Department suspended the policy for new arrivals. Since then, some asylum-seekers picked up at the border have been released in the United States with notices to appear in court.
Biden is quickly making good on a campaign promise to end the policy, which the Trump administration said was critical to reversing a surge of asylum-seekers that peaked in 2019, but the policy also exposed people to violence in Mexican border cities and made it extremely difficult for them to find lawyers and communicate with courts about their cases.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday that she was concerned that limited releases in the United States may encourage others to cross illegally because “we don’t want people to put themselves in danger at a time where it is not the right time to come, because we have not had time to put in place a humane and moral system and process.”
Obama had them in cages and they didn't make a peep!
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"Since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia ordered a military offensive against the leaders of the restive Tigray region in early November, more than 61,000 Ethiopians have crossed into Sudan, according to the U.N. refugee agency. More than 43,000 of those refugees have crossed the Tekeze River into Hamdayet, a remote and tranquil town in Sudan’s eastern Kassala state. The refugees, including hundreds of children who arrived unaccompanied, said they had fled indiscriminate shelling, killings and looting, and saw dead bodies along the way....."
Looks like a casus belli for Biden to get deeper involved in Africa after Trump had pulled back somewhat.
"Biden will try to close Guantanamo after ‘robust’ review" by Ben Fox Associated Press, February 12, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Biden will seek to close the prison on the US base at Guantanamo Bay following a review process, resuming a project begun under the Obama administration, the White House said Friday.
Grain of salt, please.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said it was the “intention” of the Biden administration to close the detention facility, something former president Barack Obama pledged to do within a year shortly after he took office in January 2009.
Well, Joe follows through on campaign promises.
Psaki gave no timeline, telling reporters that the formal review would be “robust” and would require the participation of officials from the Department of Defense, the Justice Department, and other agencies who have not yet been appointed under the new administration.
“There are many players from different agencies who need to be part of this policy discussion about the steps forward,” she said.
Obama ran into intense domestic political opposition when he sought to close the detention center, a notorious symbol of the US fight against terrorism. Biden may have more leeway now that there are only 40 prisoners left and Guantanamo draws much less public attention, though his announcement did draw some immediate criticism.
The United States opened the detention center in January 2002 to hold people suspected of ties to Al Qaeda and the Taliban. It became a source of international criticism over the mistreatment of prisoners and the prolonged imprisonment of people without charge.
That's a nice way of saying torture.
The announcement of the closure plan, first reported by Reuters, was not unexpected. Biden had said as a candidate he supported closing the detention center. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said so as well in written testimony for his Senate confirmation.
“Guantanamo has provided us the capability to conduct law of war detention in order to keep our enemies off the battlefield, but I believe it is time for the detention facility at Guantanamo to close,” Austin said. “My understanding is that the Biden-Harris administration does not intend to bring new detainees to the facility and will seek to close it.”
The 40 remaining prisoners at Guantanamo include five who were previously cleared for release through an intensive review process created under Obama as part of the effort to close the detention center and transfer the remaining prisoners to US facilities.
At its peak in 2003, the detention center at the Navy base on the southeast tip of Cuba held nearly 680 prisoners. Amid the international outrage, former president George W. Bush called it a “a propaganda tool for our enemies and a distraction for our allies” and said he supported closing it but left it to his successor.
Under Bush, the United States began efforts to prosecute some of the prisoners for war crimes in special tribunals known as military commissions, but the government also released 532 prisoners.
Obama vowed to close the detention center, while keeping the larger Navy base, but ran into fierce political opposition over plans to prosecute and imprison men in the United States and concerns that returning others to their homeland would pose a security risk.
To some extent at least, that opposition remains. “The Democrats’ obsession with bringing terrorists into Americans’ backyards is bizarre, misguided, and dangerous,” said Senator John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas, after the White House announcement Friday. “Just like with president Obama, Republicans will fight it tooth and nail.”
Obama argued that keeping the detention center was not just a bad policy but a waste of money, costing more than $445 million per year in 2016.
Under his administration, 197 were repatriated or resettled in other countries.
That left 41 under Trump, who pledged at one point to “load it up” with some “bad dudes.” He never did and approved a single release, a Saudi prisoner who had reached a plea deal in his war crimes case.
His lack of war-mongering will be sorely missed.
Of those who remain at Guantanamo, there are 10 men facing trial by military commission. They include five men charged with planning and providing logistical support to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The case has been bogged down in pretrial proceedings for years.
That inside job was this generation's biggest lie before CV-19 (before that it is without a doubt the Holoco$t™).
Human rights groups who have long championed the closure of Guantanamo welcomed Biden’s announcement.
“For almost two decades, the United States has denied justice to the hundreds of men the government has kept detained at Guantánamo Bay indefinitely, without charge or trial,” said Daphne Eviatar, director of the Security with Human Rights Program at Amnesty International USA. “Forty men remain there today. It is long past time to close it down.”
Was a practice run for what they intend to do to Trump supporters and their political enemies in 2021.
That's why they want to empty it out. To make room for YOU!
I'm sure it will end up before the Supreme Court, and they will be allowed to go swimming after they have been freed.
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"Fourteen people have been arrested in Denmark and Germany on suspicion of preparing one or several attacks in the two countries, Danish police said Friday, adding that the discovery of an Islamic State group flag could indicate the suspects “have a connection or sympathy with the terror organization.”
Better keep Gitmo open, right?
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He is continuing predecessors attempt, and it will never be never be forgotten.
"President Joe Biden and his press department have sought to strike a new tone with the correspondents who endured years of hostility while covering the previous administration. That effort was undercut last month when a deputy White House press secretary, T.J. Ducklo, threatened a Politico journalist who was reporting on his close personal relationship with a reporter who had covered Biden. On Friday, after Ducklo’s threat came to light, the White House announced that it had suspended him for a week without pay....."
Obama jailed reporters, remember?
Trump never did!
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As for US foreign policy:
"More than 2 million Yemeni children under the age of 5 are expected to endure acute malnutrition in 2021, four United Nations agencies said Friday, urging stakeholders to end the yearslong conflict that has brought the Arab world’s poorest country to the brink of famine. The U.N. report warned that nearly one in six of those kids — 400,000 of the 2.3 million — are at risk of death due to severe acute malnutrition this year, a significant increase from last year’s estimates. The report also said a lack of funds was hampering humanitarian programs in Yemen, as donor nations have failed to make good on their commitments. Compounding the crisis, around 1.2 million pregnant or breastfeeding women in Yemen are also projected to be acutely malnourished this year. UNICEF estimates that virtually all of Yemen’s 12 million children require some sort of assistance....."
There is also a cholera problem there amidst the massive war crimes by the Saudi/US coalition, but the photo says it better than can I:
As for the rest of the world, I simply no longer trust the account given to me by my pre$$ when it comes to Russia, Myanmar, the Philippines (looks like regime change efforts in both) China, or any other place on Earth for that matter:
"In 2020, China reported a surge in deaths and infections from the coronavirus after changing the way the count was tallied; the number of confirmed cases neared 60,000 with more than 1,300 deaths. Japan announced the country’s first death from the coronavirus, a woman in her 80s, and said the number of cases on a quarantined cruise ship had reached 218. The cruise ship MS Westerdam, which had been stranded at sea for about two weeks after being refused entry by four Asian governments, docked in Cambodia, where passengers were given health checks....."
They have been LYING from the BEGINNING and the WHOLE THING is a LIE!
"In 2020, a Chinese health official said more than 1,700 medical workers had been infected by the coronavirus, and six had died. Egypt confirmed its first case of the new virus, which had infected more than 64,000 people globally. After being stranded at sea for two weeks because five ports refused to allow their cruise ship to dock, passengers cheered as they left the MS Westerdam in Cambodia; the Holland America Line had said no cases of the virus had been confirmed among passengers and crew. (An 83-year-old American woman who was on the ship and flew from Cambodia to Malaysia was later found to be carrying the virus.)
Why did they have top bring up a long lost love?
"Powerful earthquake strikes Japan" by Motoko Rich New York Times, February 13, 2021
TOKYO — A large earthquake shook a broad area across eastern Japan late Saturday night, with its epicenter off the coast of Fukushima, near where three nuclear reactors melted down after a quake and tsunami nearly 10 years ago.
They still are. They burned through the bottom of the containment core and are still reacting. No one can go near them, not even robots.
The earthquake left nearly 1 million households without power across the Fukushima region and forced the closure of roads and suspension of train services. While rattled residents braced for aftershocks, a landslide cut off a chunk of a main artery through Fukushima prefecture.
Japan’s meteorological service reported the quake’s magnitude as 7.3, up from the initial assessment of 7.1, but said there was no danger of a tsunami.
Coming a little less than a month before the 10th anniversary of what is known as the Great East Japan earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster, the quake rattled an area that stretched as far north as Hokkaido to the Chugoku region in western Japan.
The strong quake was an unnerving reminder of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011, killing more than 16,000 people. After the subsequent nuclear disaster in Fukushima, 164,000 people fled or were evacuated from around the plant.
Saturday's quake struck as Tokyo and nine other large prefectures are under a state of emergency to contain the coronavirus. Residents are encouraged to work from home and avoid going out at night, while restaurants and bars are closed at 8 each night.
Japan is also preparing to host the summer Olympics, postponed by a year from 2020. The games are scheduled to open on July 23.
The prime minister’s office immediately set up a crisis management office and the Tokyo Electric Power Co., or Tepco, which operates the nuclear plants, said it was checking its monitoring posts in Fukushima to ensure that there were no radiation leaks.
Shortly after midnight, public broadcaster NHK reported that Tepco had detected “no major abnormalities” at any of the Dai-ichi reactors where the meltdowns occurred in 2011 or at the Dai-ni plant a few miles away in Fukushima.
I'm sure they are telling the truth after having lied about it before.
There was no immediate information about the hundreds of tanks filled with contaminated water stored on the Dai-ichi site.
The idea is to dump into the Pacific where tons of gallons of radioactive water leak on daily basis.
According to Katsunobu Kato, chief Cabinet secretary to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, about 950,000 households were left without power across the affected areas. He said that two thermal power plants in Fukushima prefecture had been taken offline. Several bullet train lines were suspended. People in dozens of households were evacuated to shelters in several cities in Fukushima.
Speaking on NHK, Takashi Furumura, a professor at the Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo, warned that a quake of this size could be followed within two or three days by another of similar scale.
Speaking at a news conference, Noriko Kamaya, an official for the meteorological agency said residents should be prepared for aftershocks as strong as magnitude 6 in the coming days.....
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There will be a layover in Australian, and it is Biden who has incited and instigated hatred against Asian-Americans after dropping the lawsuit while Asian families say they feel invisible in dealing with BPS.
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Of course, this is the new currency of diplomacy:
"Crystal Evans, 39, also is ineligible for earlier vaccine access, despite her numerous medical challenges, including a neuromuscular disease that keeps her connected to a ventilator, which is hoisted to her wheelchair in a backpack. Evans lives in Braintree with her daughter, Sophie, in a home that she has specially modified to accommodate her. A revolving door of therapists, nurses, and personal care attendants come in and out every week. Only her weight, Evans mused, would allow her to be vaccinated at the end of Phase 2, ahead of the rest of the population. Maybe, Evans quipped, she should take up smoking, “but I don’t even know what end of a cigarette to light,” she said, chuckling quietly. “I don’t know how to smoke through a tracheostomy.”
The Globe tells you what you need to know about qualifying medical conditions for the COVID vaccine after people age 75 and older are vaccinated as Massachusetts debuts new website to find COVID-19 vaccine appointments:
"Carlene Pavlos, executive director of the Massachusetts Public Health Association, said these limitations make it harder for the elderly and people in underserved communities to use the call center. “The state did not begin working on that 211 call line until so late in the rollout that we’re really behind the eight ball,” Pavlos said....."
The result is a new website that still falls far short of the easy signup procedures offered in other states as hospitals denounce state’s decision to shut-off vaccine supply:
“We all need to understand that we have a limited supply,” said Marylou Sudders, secretary of health and human services. On Thursday, the state instructed hospitals to stop scheduling new vaccine appointments, and Dr. David Rosman, president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, said by cutting back shipments to hospitals, the state dashed opportunities for physicians to bring the shots to communities of color where trust in vaccines is already wavering. “People have a trusting relationship with their doctor, and when their doctor says, ‘This is safe and as soon as my family is eligible I will get it for them,’ then patients are more willing,” he said....."
Then your doctor is either an idiot not paying attention or something far more nefarious, and Baker abandoned the plan in light of the criticism as Moderna increases supply.
"Meanwhile, the state’s coronavirus vaccination campaign, which offers hope of ending the deadly pandemic, continued, with the total number of vaccinations rising by 46,244 to 1,034,018, the Department of Public Health reported. Massachusetts is in the midst of a high-stakes campaign to vaccinate more than 4 million adults. The state’s effort got off to a slow start but has picked up recently. The state’s alarming second surge appears to be on the wane. Cases and other metrics have been generally heading downward, but public officials are concerned about a possible resurgence due to new coronavirus variants, and they’re asking people to continue taking precautions and to get vaccinated when it’s their turn....."
What is with the lies, 'er, mixed message contradictions?
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Claire Hannan, the executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers, said, “we are in a much better place now.”
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"The Biden administration said Wednesday that it was partnering with officials in Texas to set up three new mass vaccination sites in the state, part of an effort to leverage federal resources to expand the delivery of coronavirus shots. The centers will be in Dallas, Houston, and Arlington, said Jeff Zients, coordinator of the White House’s coronavirus task force — places he identified as hit especially hard by the pandemic. Together, the sites will be able to support the administration of more than 10,000 shots a day, Zients said, and will begin operations the week of Feb. 22. The sites are NRG Stadium in Houston, AT&T Stadium in Arlington, and Ferris Plaza Park in Dallas. Last week, the administration said it was helping set up two such mass vaccination sites in California, one in Oakland and the other in Los Angeles. In addition to personnel from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, more than 1,100 active-duty troops will be deployed to support vaccination infrastructure, starting in California. As part of his national strategy announced in his first days in office, President Biden promised to set up 100 new federally supported vaccination sites in 30 days. The administration is in conversations with additional states, such as Colorado, about possible locations for centers equipped to administer as many as 6,000 shots a day, according to two people familiar with the discussions who were not authorized to discuss them publicly....."
At what point in the future will citizens be kidnapped and taken to the mass vaccination centers to be exterminated?
That's something totalitarian regimes in South America do!
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Behind the debate is the polarizing issue of immigration policy, now complicated by difficult health policy decisions during a pandemic emergency.
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The Globe loves only itself:
"Shares in HubSpot soar after marketing tech firm wraps up strong year amid pandemic; Cambridge company is banking on becoming the go-to place for business-to-business software" by Jon Chesto Globe Staff, February 12, 2021
HubSpot had the best performing stock of any Massachusetts software company last year. The Cambridge firm, chief executive Brian Halligan assured investors this week, is just getting started.
Shares in the marketing software firm rose 16 percent on Friday after its fourth quarter earnings beat Wall Street’s expectations, it forecasted strong growth for 2021, and several analysts raised their outlooks for the stock. The performance on Friday marked just the latest run-up in a long climb: The stock was trading on Friday above $500 a share, more than two-and-a-half times its value a year ago and nearly five times what it was worth during the stock market’s nadir last March.
Signs of growth abounded. The firm’s total revenue cleared $883 million for the year, up 31 percent. Its number of customers rose 42 percent, year-over-year, to end at 104,000, and headcount rose 25 percent, to 4,225 employees. HubSpot also hit a major milestone, crossing the $1 billion threshold for annual recurring revenue.
Investors seem to be betting on the fact that HubSpot’s solutions for clients’ customer-management needs are well suited for a new world order accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic — one in which significantly more marketing happens online, digitally, and remotely. Halligan and chief financial officer Kate Bueker fielded questions on a conference call Thursday from a pack of largely effusive analysts.
I'm sorry, what was that?
“This unusual year opened up everyone’s eyes to just how early we still are in the digital transformation of the economy,” Halligan said. “This is the trend we’ve been seeing for 14 years, and was sped up for obvious reasons this [past] year.”
Halligan said clients now expect business-to-business software to work relatively seamlessly, much like the way consumers can easily pick through apps on their phones. When various customer-management programs are cobbled together from different companies, Halligan said, the user experience can suffer. The HubSpot platform, he argued, offers a more streamlined alternative.
Who have they banned?
Halligan said HubSpot is in “the bottom of the second inning in our baseball game” as it broadens its focus beyond its core marketing app to field a range of business-to-business demands. Halligan and Bueker talked about the four software “hubs” at the company now: marketing, sales, customer service, and website management.
“It’s still pretty earnings for HubSpot,” Halligan added. “There’s a lot more stuff in our heads … that we can expose through additional hubs down the road.”
HubSpot’s recent acquisition of business-newsletter producer The Hustle is one indication of where things could be headed. Halligan said HubSpot was built around the idea of marketing from a client’s own website and other internally developed materials — instead of advertising with TV, radio, newspapers, social networks, and search engines. The Hustle newsletter platform, and its related podcast, should help further that fundamental goal, he said, but there are some issues brought about by the remote work trend that might be out of HubSpot’s reach. At one point on the earnings call, a doorbell rang. Halligan offered to take the next question, while a seemingly aghast Bueker apologized for the disruption. No matter how many apps HubSpot rolls out for clients, addressing work-from-home interruptions with software might not happen anytime soon.
How much do they pay in taxes?
No mention of the conflict of intere$ts that make this more a $elf-$erving agenda-pu$hing piece of $hit than an objective news report, sorry.
Related: Boston Globe Hu$tle
I'm going as fast as I can and whatcha say?
"Hearing loss biotech Decibel makes a lackluster public debut; The Boston company, which is working to develop gene therapies, raised $127 million in an IPO, but its stock price closed up just three cents on Friday" by Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff, February 12, 2021
After raising $127 million in an initial public offering on Friday, Boston biotech Decibel Therapeutics had a lackluster opening day of trading, with its stock price closing virtually flat.
The firm is headed by Laurence Reid, who succeeded Steven Holtzman in January 2020 after the latter retired as chief executive and became a strategic business adviser.
Reid is a biopharma veteran who previously served as chief executive of Warp Drive Bio, a Cambridge biotech that was acquired in 2018 by California-based Revolution Medicines. He also serves as an entrepreneur in residence at Third Rock Ventures, the Boston venture capital firm that has created many life sciences firms.
They are literally taking over the planet in what is the height of arrogance.
Decibel is among several biotechs working on cutting-edge therapies for hearing loss.
In spite of the COVID-19 pandemic ― and in some cases because of it ― investors poured money into biotech companies last year. In 2020, the sector recorded more than 100 initial public offerings, nearly double the number of the year before.
Interest remains high this year.....
It's part and parcel to the Great Re$et and medical surveillance tyranny, but the public can't hear it.
