Housing on Greenway, Brighton, Southie OK’d

Brighton, South Boston and downtown will get 195 new housing units — including apartments for veterans — under projects unveiled by the Boston Redevelopment Authority yesterday. Under a $40 million redevelopment of its campus, the nonprofit Brighton...

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City Hall Plaza to 
boost food trucks Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the expansion of mobile food truck vending on City Hall Plaza to include a winter program for the current season and a year-round program moving forward. Eligibility is open to all...

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Beetle’s got more juice than old Bugs

This is not your father's VW Beetle. Revamped a couple of years ago to make it brawnier, bigger and less rounded, the 2014 VW Turbo R-line brings it all together. The R-line starts by kicking up the size of the base Turbo engine from 1.8 to 2.0 liters...

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Style, comfort in Southie townhouse

This contemporary, chalet-style attached townhouse on Southie's City Point has park and water views and a suburban single-family feel. One of two side-by-side units built in 1982 and extensively updated, this unusual three-bedroom condo has a chalet-style...

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Tuning out cable? HBO Internet-only plan changes picture

"It's not TV, it's HBO." HBO's longtime marketing slogan aside, soon there might not be any TV at all, at least in the traditional sense. The premium cable channel's announcement earlier this week that it will offer an Internet-only streaming service...

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Will Apple Pay be the next iRevolution?

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple's skinnier iPads and flashy big-screen iMac are sleek and stunning. But the tech giant is making a bigger strategic bet with next week's launch of Apple Pay — the mobile pay service aimed at turning your iPhone into your wallet....

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Custom homes go on the block

Build a custom mansion if you have the means, but you may end up auctioning it off because you can't find a buyer. That's what's happening to two high-end Bay State properties, one in Andover and another in Osterville on Cape Cod. "Some homes that...

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Twitter introduces new audio card feature with SoundCloud, iTunes

Much like how Twitter users are able to embed photos, videos and gifs directly into tweets, the social media platform is making it possible to embed audio as well in a new partnership with Soundcloud and Apple. Twitter announced in a blog post on...

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AbbVie may scrap $55B buy of Shire

Drugmaker AbbVie's announcement that it is reconsidering its nearly 
$55 billion acquisition of drugmaker Shire is either a negotiating ploy or proof the Obama administration's recent clampdown on corporate tax inversions is having an effect, experts...

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HBO to cut cable cord HBO is cutting the cord next year and selling its popular streaming video service, HBO Go. as a standalone product, as more Americans choose to watch the Web, not the TV. Viewers longing to see "Game of Thrones," "True Detective"...

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Boston eyes tenant for former Navy digs

Two years after plans for a seafood processing plant fell through for a pair of Boston Marine Industrial Park parcels, the Economic Development and Industrial Corp. is seeking proposals for one of the sites. A long-term industrial tenant is sought for...

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Fed Reserve chair to tour Boston-area job center

BOSTON — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is visiting the Boston area to tour a local job center and to speak at a conference on economic opportunity, as the central bank's first female head continues her focus on employment issues in her first year...

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Vent sensor co. now controls $2.2M

What do you do after designing missile, radar and submarine systems? Redesign heating and cooling vents, of course. Ecovent, led by chief executive and former Lockheed Martin engineer Dipul Patel, has raised $2.2 million for its system of connected...

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Mind your cubicle manners

They may be getting smaller, but office cubicles are still our humble home away from home — our personal space where unspoken boundaries and codes of conduct need to be respected. If your office cubicle is neat, clean and orderly, or if it is cluttered...

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Asia stocks rise as oil slump promises benefits

Asian stock markets were mostly higher Wednesday as a slump in energy prices promised benefits for the region's major economies. KEEPING SCORE: Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average was up 0.2 percent at 14,971.79 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng added 0.7 percent...

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European stocks wallow, Asia gains on oil slump

European stocks wallowed Wednesday on dour growth prospects while Asian shares were mostly higher as a slump in energy prices promised benefits for the region's major economies. KEEPING SCORE: Amid the prospect Europe will relapse into recession, France's...

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Identity theft dogs woman in Palmer

A Palmer woman has spent five years fighting to restore her credit rating after identity thieves stole her personal information — including her Social Security number — a cautionary tale as a seemingly endless parade of data breaches hit retail stores....

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Weather station is cool, but costly

Netatmo smartphone weather station ($179, Amazon) Just in time for winter, I checked out this urban weather station, which is billed as a smartphone-connected air quality monitor. It comes with two sensor-laden aluminum cylinders, an AC adapter, mounting...

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Boston the hot spot for bots

Global robotics executives will converge on Boston this week as the leading business development event for the robotics industry has its 10th annual conference here, solidifying the Hub's reputation as a national leader in artificial intelligence bots....

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Review site Yelp battles against extortion claims

SAN FRANCISCO — First the chefs of a small Italian restaurant got mad at online review site Yelp. Instead of trying to get better reviews, they decided to take a different approach: get terrible ones. The campaign helped Botte Bistro get a rating of...

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Local law firm serving craft beer industry

Local law firm Bowditch & Dewey is hopping on the explosive growth of craft breweries in Massachusetts and across the country with the creation of a specialty practice focusing on the beer industry niche. "It's a thriving and growing industry,"...

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She’s got Nancy Drew game

For nearly a century, Nancy Drew, the bright, young amateur sleuth in the mystery series of the same name, has served as a role model for the likes of Hillary Rodham Clinton, former First Lady Laura Bush and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Now,...

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Balky Suburban may have problem with low fuel pressure

I have a 1999 Chevy Suburban 1500 V-8. Frequently the car won't start. The engine turns over but won't catch. The odd thing is that there is a sequence of actions to get it to start that works every time. If I repeatedly crank three times and let it...

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Shift in kids' TV watching habits drives big changes to Discovery-Hasbro partnership

The seismic shifts in the way kids watch TV has led to major changes in the partnership between Discovery Communications and Hasbro in the Hub Network. The kidvid channel that launched in October 2010 will be rebranded Discovery Family Channel as of...

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