Experts offer good read on Amazon’s latest buy

Experts are hailing Amazon's decision to acquire social reading website Goodreads as a brilliant move that will steer traffic — and sales — to Amazon, which started as an online bookstore and grew to become the world's largest online retailer. The deal,...

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The Ticker

Battery maker gets cute with name Lithium ion battery maker A123 Systems is changing its corporate name to B456 Systems Inc. to satisfy one of the embattled company's obligations under an asset purchase agreement with Wanxiang America Corp. Chinese...

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Cape Cod lifestyle in Quincy

This free-standing single-family is part of a Nantucket-like condo development in Quincy's Marina Bay neighborhood. The four-bedroom house at 12 Hutchinson Lane is in the 18-acre Chapman's Reach planned community, one of 152 single-families and townhouses...

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Tax credits vital to conversions

Affordable housing is crucial to society because it ensures that families with limited economic means have a place to live. Either new structures can be built or older buildings can be renovated to increase the affordable housing stock. "Preserving...

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Suffolk Downs casino losing champion

Mayor Thomas M. Menino's earthshaking decision to bow out of the next election left some at Suffolk Downs concerned about whether Boston's next leader will be as supportive of its casino plans. The final votes for the project will be cast before Menino...

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Mayor ‘touched all the bases’

Hub real estate developers told the Herald yesterday that Mayor Thomas M. Menino's successor should stick to the five-term leader's focus on balancing the needs of Boston citizens with pro-business growth. John Rosenthal, president of Meredith Management...

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Casino rivals show off their grand designs

Developers behind two dueling, billion-dollar resort casino bids — one promising to save thoroughbred horse racing at Suffolk Downs and the other vowing to clean up a polluted waterfront in Everett — tried to steal each other's thunder yesterday by each...

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Hey, Dad, got $35G for my little wedding at the Mandarin?

Groupon is offering its priciest "deal" yet in Boston: a $35,000 wedding at the Mandarin Oriental. The invitation-only offer, which ends Sunday, includes space for up to 100 guests for five hours, a reception with a live DJ for four hours, a three-course...

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Sporting News partners with digital video provider

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Sporting News will add online highlight clips as part of a new business deal. Parent company American City Business Journals and digital video provider Perform will work together on Sporting News Media in the United States and Canada....

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$un shining on Third Rock fund

Hub-based venture capital firm Third Rock Ventures, LLC, has closed its third fund and is ready to put the money toward its intended purpose — supporting innovative health-care companies. Third Rock partner Kevin Starr said the $516 million fund will...

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Senate’s bank vote may be symbolic slap

After the Senate's symbolic crackdown on too-big-to-fail banks in the final hours before Congress adjourned over the weekend, experts were divided about how effective such legislation would be, with the industry threatening to pass any costs along to...

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Asia stocks up, Europe flat before data release

HONG KONG — Asian stocks followed Wall Street higher on Wednesday after upbeat economic data from the world's largest economy. But in Europe, markets were unsteady ahead of the release of more indicators that would provide further clues about the health...

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Worries over Wegmans

Wegmans Food Markets' plans for its first Hub supermarket may be cheered by foodies, but they are raising concerns that the grocery chain's cultlike following could worsen traffic for Fenway drivers already facing rush hour gridlock, Red Sox games and...

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Study: Mass. life science initiative creating jobs

BOSTON — Midway through Massachusetts' ambitious 10-year, $1 billion life science initiative, the state is already reaping benefits. That's the finding of a new study by Northeastern University economists Barry Bluestone and Alan Clayton-Matthews. ...

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Yahoo buys startup run by 17-year-old entrepreneur

SAN FRANCISCO — A London startup owned by a 17-year-old entrepreneur has Yahoo as a buyer. The teenager was seeking an easier way to read news stories and other content on the smaller screens of smartphones, so he built an app for that. The deal announced...

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Sandusky interview to air on NBC's 'Today' show

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — An interview with Jerry Sandusky is expected to be aired on NBC's "Today" show, a rare instance of the former Penn State assistant football coach giving his own side of the story. The network said the Monday morning broadcast will...

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Ford India apologizes over Berlusconi bondage ad

MUMBAI, India — The Indian unit of Ford Motor Co. has apologized for an advertisement depicting Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with a trio of bound women in the trunk of a car. The image appeared over the weekend on a website showcasing...

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EU finance ministers approve Cyprus bailout deal

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus' Parliament president says a deal reached for his country to raise billions in order to qualify for an international bailout is a "painful one" for the island nation's people and a defeat for European solidarity. Yiannakis Omirou...

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Chipping away at animal testing

Harvard University researchers are tapping into Sony's manufacturing expertise with the goal of mass-producing matchbox-sized "organs-on-chips" that could make it possible for scientists to test new drugs easily without animal trials. Though recognized...

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App gives more than ‘likes’

A new app launching in Boston April 3 aims to help businesses boost sales by offering customers rewards for promoting them on social media. Socii (pronounced so-she) was founded last year by three Boston-area college grads who noticed how companies...

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Former workers find new life in industry

There is life beyond the ashes of Curt Schilling's 38 Studios, as seven former employees of the imploded Rhode Island gaming company came to PAX East yesterday to talk about the new studios they've started. Featured on a panel at the video gaming convention,...

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