Walmart touts Web deals for holidays

Walmart kicked off its online holiday sales yesterday — a month earlier than usual for the world's largest online retailer. The chain is hawking savings that it says it normally reserves for Black Friday — the day after Thanksgiving and typically the...

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Henry pays $38M for Globe HQ

John Henry paid $38.4 million for The Boston Globe's headquarters on Morrissey Boulevard as part of the 
$70 million deal last month to acquire the New England Media Group from The New York Times, according to newly filed records at the Suffolk County...

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Hilltop townhouses offer view

A major transformation of the hilltop site of the former Symmes Hospital in Arlington is adding 176 residential units, including 12 townhouses for sale. Arlington 360 has been long in the making, but the development is now renting and selling. The 12...

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Obama: Budget is about choices, priorities

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says budget negotiations in Congress are about choices and priorities. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama urges Congress to pass a budget that includes spending on education, infrastructure and research....

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Asia stocks rise on hopes Fed to maintain stimulus

MANILA, Philippines — Asian stocks rose Wednesday after the Dow Jones industrial average hit an all-time high on expectations the Federal Reserve will keep its economic stimulus fully in place until next year. Japan's Nikkei 225 was up 1.1 percent at...

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Smartwatches abound. But who really wants one?

NEW YORK — Computerized wristwatches that display message alerts and weather updates are abound this holiday season: Consumer electronics companies are trying to persuade you to add these smartwatches to your shopping lists. Samsung and Sony have devices...

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Communist Cuba's new private industry: 3D theaters

HAVANA — The streets of central Havana were dark and almost silent as a young married couple climbed a chipped marble staircase to the top of an aging building. Dubied Arce and Dayelin Perez opened a narrow door to a flood of cold air, colored light...

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Mass. now manages 200K acres in conservation land

WEST STOCKBRIDGE — State officials are marking a milestone in land conservation after another 3,525 acres was protected during the 2013 fiscal year, bringing the statewide total to more than 200,000 acres. The Department of Fish and Game announced Tuesday...

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Liz Warren channels Ted Kennedy on NIH funding

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren took a step into the late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's shoes yesterday, calling for a "nonpartisan" effort to double the funding of the National Institute of Health that could pay huge dividends for Massachusetts. "I'm calling...

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The Ticker

Apple profits down despite iPhone sales Apple Inc.'s profit and margins slid despite selling a solid 33.8 million iPhones in its September quarter, prompting disappointed investors to cash in on some of the stock's recent strong gains. Overall revenue...

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Deloitte defends snafus in Mass. jobless data

A Deloitte Consulting official defended the firm's work for the state yesterday, acknowledging that as many as 300 jobless people in any given week have had problems with the state's new online unemployment assistance system that it developed, but saying...

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Health insurer Aetna's 3Q profit rises 4 pct

Aetna Inc.'s third-quarter net income rose 4 percent, fueled in part by enrollment and revenue gains from a multi-billion-dollar acquisition the health insurer completed earlier this year. But the Hartford, Conn., insurer's expenses also jumped, and...

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Niki Tsongas to address Merrimack Valley businesswomen

HAVERHILL  — U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce Women in Business Conference. The conference is scheduled for Monday the Phoenician Restaurant in Haverhill. The Democrat is...

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Apple sweetens suite of apps

Apple's newly upgraded suite of productivity and lifestyle apps makes the iPad feel much more like a full-fledged computer. Many consumers can now grab one of those keyboard accessories for the iPad and forget about their laptop. Simply put: It's a...

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A new face of entrepreneurship

Creating more diversity in the Hub's startup culture is an idea getting a lot of attention, but some minorities are already jumping into entrepreneurship and making strides finding investors and creating products and services. Unfairly or not, the face...

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Toyota outsells GM in first 9 nine months of year

TOKYO — Toyota's global sales for the first nine months of the year reached 7.41 million vehicles, little changed from the previous year but outpacing General Motors to keep its lead as the world's top-selling automaker. Detroit-based GM said earlier...

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Aereo’s CEO signals more hiring in Hub

Internet TV company Aereo continues to expand and is looking to Boston to beef up its engineering staff even as it faces lawsuits across the country from broadcast industry giants. "Our expectation was there would be a lot of controversy around this,...

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Jay-Z defends deal with store accused of profiling

NEW YORK — Jay-Z — under increasing pressure to back out of a collaboration with the luxury store Barneys New York after it was accused of racially profiling two black customers — said Saturday he's being unfairly "demonized" for just waiting to hear...

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Accelerating growth

MassChallenge, the Bay State's groundbreaking global startup accelerator and competition, is planning an extensive expansion that will include manufacturing facilities and outposts in Israel as well as potentially Europe, Asia and South America, according...

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GOP hopes 'Obamacare' woes have staying power

WASHINGTON — For nearly five years, Republicans have struggled to make a scandal stick to President Barack Obama's White House. One by one, the controversies — with shorthand names such as Solyndra, Benghazi, and Fast and Furious — hit a fever pitch,...

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