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June is barely over but the South Shore area has already had near-record-breaking heat this summer.
Wednesday was the 11th day temperatures in the region have hit 90 degrees or higher, already approaching the average of 14 days for the entire summer, WCVB meteorologist Cindy Fitzgibbon said.
She said the most days of 90 degrees or higher the Boston area has ever seen was in 1983, when 30 days hit at least 90. The hottest months are usually July and August, but June s heat shows this could be one of the warmest summers on the South Shore. The longer-range forecast does predict a warmer-than-average summer, Fitzgibbon said. June right now is going to go down in the records as the warmest. . The amount of heat we have had already is quite significant.
It’s been a busy week for private equity with Cloudera, Stack Overflow and FireEye coming off the board on Tuesday and Wednesday. Today Blackstone bought media and data company IDG for $1.3 billion. The company had been owned by Oriental Rainbow, LLC, a subsidiary of China Oceanwide Holdings Group, Co. Ltd. With IDG, Blackstone gets […]
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Tech Hive. IDG s media arm used to be a powerhouse in the 90s, but has since faded because of continuing pressure on the publishing industry. The high-quality data, analytics, and insights IDG delivers to technology leaders are only becoming more critical as the pace of growth and innovation accelerates. IDG has a trusted brand and deep knowledge of tech suppliers and buyers, and our investment will help the company accelerate its plans for creating even more advanced product offerings across its business, said Peter Wallace, Blackstone s head of Core Private Equity.
IDG has made its own acquisitions in recent years, including the purchase of marketing data platform Triblio and IT pricing service Metri.