Crowd-funding finds wayto real estate financing

Crowd-funding has transformed the startup landscape, but can the insular world of real estate benefit from this model as well? It's being tried in different forms, mostly centered on commercial real estate. The Boston startup Collaperty, for instance,...

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What happens if Twinkies really do go away?

Let's not panic. We all know that Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Wonder bread and the rest of Hostess Brands' oddly everlasting foods aren't going away any time soon, even if the food culture that created them is gasping its last. Yes, Hostess is shutting...

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Fidelity shifts to Seaport

Fidelity Investments is moving its corporate headquarters to Summer Street on the edge of the Innovation District — a change that analysts say signals a major shift in the Financial District toward the Southie waterfront and reaffirms the financial giant's...

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Nokia Lumia 920 brightest light for Windows phones

The masterfully botched launch of Windows 8 phones brought zero lines of eager consumers to wireless retailers across the nation. But here we have Microsoft's last chance to show its smartphone gambit is for real. The Windows 8 platform has been refined...

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Business - BostonHerald.com

Business - BostonHerald.comBusiness - BostonHerald.com http://www.bostonherald.com/business/?srvc=rss The Boston Herald online: The closest distance between you and the news en-us Copyright 2012, Herald Interactive, Inc. Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:31:32 -0500...

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Forecasters predict buying bonanza

Massachusetts retailers hope for a third straight year of holiday sales increases amid growing consumer confidence despite the looming "fiscal cliff." The Retailers Association of Massachusetts is forecasting a 3.5 percent rise in November and December...

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Egad! Nexus 10 nearly outperforms iPad

The Nexus 10 could be an iPad killer. It comes so darn close I can almost taste it. But it's not quite there yet. In some ways, Google's new 10-inch tablet is better than the iPad. The grippy, rubbery body is more accessible than the hard-as-a-rock...

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SEC, Big 12 get 12-year deal from ESPN for Sugar

NEW YORK — The Big 12 and Southeastern Conference have agreed to a 12-year deal with ESPN for the rights to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. A person familiar with the contract said it was worth about $80 million per year through 2026. The person spoke...

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SKorean presidential hopeful vows freer Internet

SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean presidential candidate is promising to get rid of encryption technology that ties South Korean Internet users to a single web browser — Microsoft's Internet Explorer — for online transactions. Ahn Cheol-soo, a popular...

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Zynga CFO David Wehner deflects to Facebook

NEW YORK — Zynga's finance chief is leaving the troubled online game company to join Facebook. San Francisco-based Zynga Inc. said Tuesday that David Wehner will take a "senior finance position" at the social networking company. His exact title will...

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Asia stocks up after successful Greek bond auction

BANGKOK — Asian stock markets edged higher Wednesday as the threat of an imminent meltdown in debt-swamped Greece receded. Greece held a sale of short-term treasury bills Tuesday that will help it make a crucial debt repayment at the end of the week....

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Obama pressing business and labor on fiscal cliff

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is lobbying business and labor groups to support his plan to avoid an impending fiscal cliff, telling the two sides he remains committed to requiring the wealthy to pay more in taxes. Obama was meeting Wednesday...

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Survey: Families at odds over financial planning

BOSTON — Thanksgiving could be an opportune time to talk turkey about family finances, rather than merely eat the bird and prepare for the next big holiday. A detailed discussion could prove to be worthwhile, given the strong likelihood that older...

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Union Oyster House named top eatery

History is on the side of Union Oyster House. Established in 1826, the Retailers Association of Massachusetts' "Restaurant of the Year" is the nation's oldest restaurant, and the only one that's a national historic landmark. "We have a really unique...

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Concord shop parades like big cheese

If a parade to celebrate the arrival of the "Big Cheese" — a 400-pound wheel of Crucolo cheese from Italy — sounds fun, that's the point. Dec. 6 is the date for the Concord Cheese Shop's third annual Crucolo parade, which in past years has included...

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UPS stops donations to Boy Scouts over anti-gay rule

ATLANTA — United Parcel Service will no longer give money to the Boy Scouts of America, joining other companies that have stopped funding or have spoken out against the organization's prohibition of gay members or leaders. UPS confirmed Monday it...

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Joe Tucci: Don't blow budget talks

EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci yesterday said Democrats and Republicans will have to compromise to avoid going over the year-end fiscal cliff and sending the nation back into recession. At the Techonomy 2012 conference in Tucson, Ariz., Tucci said it...

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Signature brands make comebacks

Automakers are always looking for ways to be original when unveiling new models. In certain instances, this means shifting gears and storing vintage nameplates in the garage. "There just aren't that many that survive from the old days," said Scott Oldham,...

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Reactor reuses nuclear waste

Two Massachusetts Institute of Technology doctoral candidates are designing a nuclear power plant that would convert nuclear waste from conventional reactors into electricity — a plant you could walk away from, they said, without the risk of a radioactive...

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Soldiers get linked in

Yinon Weiss served 10 years on active duty in the military, including two tours of duty in Iraq. But it wasn't until he and another Iraq veteran, Aaron Kletzing, ran into each other as graduate students in the network-savvy world of Harvard Business...

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BBC says its news chief, her deputy 'step aside'

LONDON — The BBC's news chief and her deputy have 'stepped aside' while the broadcaster deals with the fallout from a child abuse scandal that forced its director-general to resign, the broadcaster said Monday. Helen Boaden, the BBC's director of...

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Extended warranties: Value is a matter of personal choice

I would like to comment on your recent column on whether it is worthwhile to buy an extended warranty for a car. Extended warranties are provided by companies that need to earn a profit. In order to do this, they have to collect more money from their...

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Microsoft hopes to 'break barriers' with translator

Reason No. 2,347 why Microsoft is making the world more like Star Trek: its latest voice translation project. In an astonishing video that's making its way around the web, the company's chief research officer Rick Rashid speaks before an audience in...

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Texas firm takes on 2 apartment complexes

A Houston-based developer will break ground on two major apartment projects — one in Boston, the other in Cambridge — by the end of the year as the rental market heats up in the Hub. Hanover Co. recently finalized a $25.6 million purchase of a 4-acre...

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Using their heads to combat cancer

A hair-raising presidential election and Hurricane Sandy didn't stop Small Army's Be Bold, Be Bald! campaign from achieving its highest participation numbers to date. The 4-year-old initiative, spearheaded by the Hub advertising agency in the wake of...

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