Amazon’s big stock slide shows strategy’s shaky

Time for Amazon to hit the Mayday Button. Investors are beginning to wake up and realize that maybe this whole thing about putting long-term profits over short-term profits isn't as enchanting and magical as CEO Jeff Bezos once made it seem. Amazon's...

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Home Showcase: Cabot mansion unit receives updates

This unit is part of the former mansion of Godfrey Lowell Cabot, founder of the Cabot Corp., that has seen extensive updating over the past several years. Unit 3 at 242 Beacon St. is one of nine units carved out of the grand mansion. And Unit 3's living/dining...

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Is Marty right to bunker down?

A day after the state Gaming Commission suggested Boston was "abandoning" Charlestown, neighborhood residents were split yesterday on whether Mayor Martin J. Walsh did the right thing by breaking off talks with Wynn Resorts about how much money the city...

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Regulators foaming over liter beers

Liters of lager are an essential piece of Bavarian beer culture. They're apparently verboten in Bay State beer halls. The Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission threatened to put Firebrand Saints in Cambridge under surveillance yesterday to ensure it...

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A fixer-upper for $3.4 million?

This 8,208-square-foot Chestnut Hill mansion is unlike most high-end properties you'll see in this toney neighborhood. First of all, the 1904-built home at 152 Suffolk Road was designed in Spanish Mission style, rare for this area, complete with a stucco...

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Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB to merge with German and Italian sister companies to create pay TV giant

Rupert Murdoch-controlled U.K. pay TV operator BSkyB announced deals on Friday to take control of its German and Italian sister companies to create a pan-European pay TV giant. The total value of the deals will be 5.35 billion ($9.09 billion). Murdoch's...

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Ultra high definition TVs boost LG Display profit

SEOUL, South Korea — LG Display Co. said profit for the April-June quarter more than doubled as a stronger won reduced the value of its foreign debt and the World Cup boosted demand for ultra-high-definition TVs. The South Korean display panel maker...

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China detains employees of suspect meat seller

BEIJING — Five employees of a company accused of selling expired beef and chicken to McDonald's, KFC and other restaurants were detained by police Wednesday after an official said illegal activity was an organized effort by the supplier. China's food...

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Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman says Al Jazeera is enemy

Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman has set his sights on a new enemy: the television network Al Jazeera. As Israel enters its third week of a bloody confrontation with Hamas in Gaza, Lieberman on July 21 called the Qatari network a crucial piece...

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HIV pills show more promise to prevent infection

There is more good news about the HIV treatment pills that are used to prevent infection in people at high risk of getting the AIDS virus. Researchers say that taking these prevention pills does not encourage risky sex and is effective even if people...

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World stocks rise as Ukraine plane tensions ease

TOKYO — World stock markets rose Tuesday as tensions over the downing of a passenger jet in Ukraine eased after pro-Moscow separatists released a train packed with bodies and handed over the aircraft's black boxes. In Europe, Britain's FTSE 100 gained...

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China meat scandal hits Starbucks, Burger King

BEIJING — A suspect meat scandal in China engulfed Starbucks and Burger King on Tuesday and spread to Japan where McDonald's said the Chinese supplier accused of selling expired beef and chicken had provided 20 percent of the meat for its chicken nuggets....

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Asian stocks mostly higher as plane jitters fade

BEIJING — Asian stock markets were mostly higher Monday as anxiety over the downing of a Malaysian jetliner over Ukraine eased and investors shifted their focus to U.S. corporate earnings. Oil declined to near $103 per barrel as concern about Thursday's...

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Verizon boosts FiOS uploads to match downloads

NEW YORK — Verizon is boosting the upload speeds of nearly all its FiOS connections to match the download speeds, vastly shortening the time it takes for subscribers to send videos and back up their files online. Starting Monday, all new subscribers...

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McDonald's, KFC in China face new food scandal

BEIJING — McDonald's and KFC in China faced a new food safety scare Monday after a Shanghai television station reported a supplier sold them expired beef and chicken. The companies said they immediately stopped using meat from the supplier, Husi Food...

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Electric locks make doors hard to open if power fails

I was shocked to see a news broadcast of a man whose car caught fire and he couldn't get out because the electric door locks were inoperative. He was saved because someone was able to bend the top of the door and break the glass to pull him out. This...

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Flight sharing set for Boston

For the harried traveler tired of spending interminable amounts of time in traffic before taking a ferry to get to the Vineyard or Nantucket, the Uber of the air could offer a new way to get away. MassChallenge finalist AirPooler, a web-based, flight-sharing...

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RJ Reynolds vows to fight $23.6B in damages

MIAMI — The nation's No. 2 cigarette maker is vowing to fight a jury verdict of $23.6 billion in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. executive J. Jeffery Raborn has...

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