NewsFlash Roundup: State government becomes Abbott & Costello routine; MIT partners with Egypt on fellowhip

In today’s MHT breaking news roundup, Gov. Patrick appoints Geoffrey Why commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable. Presumably, Why has a high tolerance for confusion and bad jokes. 

• Governor Patrick picks Why as new telco & cable dept. head
  
• Egypt endows $18M engineering fellowship at MIT
• Interactive Data finishes Boxborough data center expansion
• MassNetComms brings startups, telco vets together at summit
• Maine’s CashStar collects nearly $1M
• Cancer vaccine developer ImmuRx lands $250K in seed funding
• Leerink Swann names Schimmer as biotech analyst
• GreenFlash Bonus: Renewable Energy Business Network president Rob Day says it’s time for clean tech proposals to get some payback
• Personnel: Who’s coming? Who’s going? Who’s changing places?

Posted by Brendan Lynch

Tags: CashStar, Deval Patrick, Geoffrey Why, Interactive Data, MassNetComms, MIT, Rob Day

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