Cold weather stalls U.S. auto sales in December

U.S. auto sales fell short of expectations last month, thanks to strong November sales and cold December weather, but the industry is in a good position for 2014, experts said. General Motors sales fell 6.3 percent last month, Toyota sales fell 1.7...

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Audi SQ5 SUV is spacious and sporty

The SQ5, Audi's first utility vehicle available in a sport version, has the capacity of a midsize vehicle with the performance and handling of a sport sedan. Our tester with its blue paint and 21-inch wheels had an understated appearance that shrouds...

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Feds OK Mashpee pact with Mass. on casino

The Mashpee Wampanoags came one step closer yesterday to building a resort casino in Taunton, after federal officials effectively approved the tribe's gaming pact with the state. The Bureau of Indian Affairs' approval of the agreement, which outlines...

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Obama calls for restoring unemployment benefits

HONOLULU — President Barack Obama is urging Congress to reinstate jobless benefits for more than a million Americans. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the unemployment insurance is a "vital economic lifeline" for many people. And...

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Unifying Boylston St.

The city is eyeing a 10-year reconstruction project to unify the streetscape of one of Boston's major commercial streets. The Boston Redevelopment Authority is seeking a consultant to develop new design standards for the sidewalks of Boylston Street,...

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Mass. rehab hospitals get Ala. owner

A Birmingham, Ala., health care real estate development company has acquired New England and Braintree rehabilitation hospitals for $90 million. The Sanders Trust, in a joint venture with its capital partner, Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, LLC,...

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Kathi-Anne Reinstein raising stein as beer lobbyist

State Rep. Kathi-Anne Reinstein's shift from State House power broker to Sam Adams beer lobbyist could pay dividends for the industry as a whole, observers say, even as the Revere lawmaker readies to leave behind key posts on Beacon Hill. Reinstein's...

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Kitchens, baths go for simplicity

If you're aiming to create kitchens with a unique look and bathrooms with atmosphere, think gray, silver and white rather than beige and brown, say local kitchen designers. Black granite counters and cherrywood/maple/oak cabinets in the kitchen along...

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Stationary bike gyms, Xbox online service track your progress

Technology can provide excellent motivation to achieve those New Year's fitness resolutions, whether you want to compete with yourself or someone else. Digitally measured progress is the future of fitness. But only a handful of gyms and fitness facilities...

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HP to cut 5,000 more employees this year

Hewlett-Packard, the computing giant, has confirmed that it will lay off 5,000 more employees than originally planned by next fall. In 2012, the California-based company announced plans to cut 29,000 workers by October 2014, but said that number could...

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Anti-casino groups unite

Groups from Palmer and East Boston plan to campaign with casino opponents in Revere ahead of the Mohegan/Suffolk Downs referendum in February, tapping into their experience barring the Suffolk Downs proposal in Eastie and first-hand dealings with Mohegan...

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New MIT technology allows 3D image interaction

Photo by:  The Associated Press In a Nov. 26, 2013, photo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student Sean Follmer demonstrates inFORM technology on campus in Cambridge, Mass. Follmer, a researcher with MIT's Tangible Media Group,...

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New Shack out to Shake up Newbury St.

Shake Shack, the much-ballyhooed burger chain from New York, is heading for Boston's Newbury Street next year. The, 5,600-square-foot, two-level location at 236 Newbury St. will be Shake Shack's third store in Massachusetts and its largest yet. Shake...

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Hub buildings change hands

A flurry of transactions closed a heady year for the Boston real estate market, including the sales of a rare portfolio of Boylston and Newbury street properties, One Winthrop Square and The Block on Congress. Bethesda, Md.-based ASB Real Estate Investments...

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Justice delays health law's birth control mandate

WASHINGTON — Only hours before the law was to take effect, a Supreme Court justice on Tuesday blocked implementation of part of President Barack Obama's health care law that would have forced some religion-affiliated organizations to provide health insurance...

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Lavish parties, uninhibited tourists rule in Vegas

LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas held one its biggest ever New Year's Eve celebrations, with sold-out concerts and an eight-minute long fireworks show that was billed as the largest in the country. Big-ticket musical acts Bruno Mars, John Legend and Maroon 5 helped...

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Drone research funds to fly into Bay State

The announcement of six states that will host testing areas for commercial drones is a significant step toward approving unmanned aircraft in U.S. skies, experts said, and will pay dividends for Massachusetts — even though the Bay State isn't on the...

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The Ticker

Technical glitches dog 
Mass. jobless website Technological glitches are plaguing yet another state-operated website ­— the Massachusetts unemployment system. Users are reporting problems accessing both the phone line and website to file weekly unemployment...

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Mass. home sales slide in Nov.

There was a slight chill in the Massachusetts housing market last month. November saw the first year-over-year decline in single-family home sales — and the fewest number of monthly sales — since April, driven by a tight supply of available properties...

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Shares mixed in thin New Year's Eve trading

TOKYO — Shares were mixed Tuesday in thin pre-holiday trading, with early gains in some markets succumbing to selling pressure as roller-coaster 2013 wound to a close. The French and British markets, which will trade for a half day on Tuesday, started...

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What’s on tap for 2014

Local techies say 2014 is set to be another banner year for the Boston area. Here are some companies and trends to watch out for in the next 12 months. Companies on the rise: • Care.com filed for an IPO earlier this month, seeking to raise $80 million....

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Air resuscitates speaker accessories

DockBoss Air ($34.95, Amazon.com or CableJive
.com) What to do with those old Apple speaker docks? The answer is dockBoss Air, a little dongle that rescues your old iPhone or iPod speaker accessory (before those so-called lightning connectors became...

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Don't overlook these apps

If Santa was kind this year and got you a smartphone or a tablet, chances are you're looking for a few good apps. And chances are you've already downloaded the ol' standbys — such as Kindle, Facebook, Skype and YouTube. But there's a wide world of mobile...

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Samsung sells 110-inch ultra-HD TV for $150,000

SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung said a 110-inch TV that has four times the resolution of standard high-definition TVs is going on sale for about $150,000 in South Korea. The launch Monday of the giant television set reflects global TV makers' move toward...

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Briar Group card breach investigated

An investigation of a new credit card security breach at the Briar Group will include ensuring the Boston restaurant chain complied with security measures outlined in a settlement with the state Attorney General's office after a 2009 data breach. As...

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Gaming foes await SJC decision

Attorney General Martha Coakley is pushing for swift action by the state Supreme Judicial Court on the legality of a ballot initiative to repeal the Bay State's two-year-old expanded gaming law, a question that looms large over the awarding of casino...

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Mass. couple promote new craft beer business model

BELMONT, Mass. — Kate Baker and Suzanne Schalow founded Craft Beer Cellar in Belmont in 2010, and today, at any given time, its 1,500 square feet of retail space are filled with more than 1,000 beers from 350 breweries. Beers are organized by region,...

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Federal health market surpasses 1 million signups

HONOLULU — A December surge propelled health care sign-ups through the government's rehabilitated website past the 1 million mark, the Obama administration said Sunday, reflecting new signs of life for the problem-plagued federal insurance exchange....

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