The Bangles were famous for their "Manic Monday" song, and it looks as if we can take that and apply it to this morning, as "Merger Monday" appears to be in full effect again.

After 100 years of celebrating cultural and scientific achievement, the Nobel Prize Committee has decided to make some minor changes. The official website for the accolade, www.Nobelprize.org, is going to be revamped by Akamai, a Cambridge, MA based company.

Apart from benefitting the companies involved, the contract may also be positive for Boston itself.

Long held up due to partisan bickering on Capitol Hill, it looks like free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea are inching closer to passage. Earlier this week, the House passed the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), which reduce tariffs on imports from 130 countries and could open the door for these trade agreements to be passed.

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