Southboro’s Globoforce cancels IPO

A Southboro tech company canceled its initial public offering hours before markets opened yesterday, a move experts said was a sign of low demand for shares of Globoforce, not a trend that will drag down other tech companies looking to go public soon....

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'20s charm abounds in Belmont home

This classic colonial in Belmont has been updated but retains much of its woodwork and charming details, such as arched doorways. Built in 1928, the five-bedroom home at 22 Adams St. lies in the town's high-end Presidential Estates subdivision. The...

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Health Connector tab grows

The state could lose up to $90 million in federal funds because lingering problems with its disastrous Obama­care website have kept tens of thousands of people on health plans that were supposed to expire in January — forcing it to burn up cigarette...

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Howard Johnson Inn to get ‘edgy’ redo

An "edgy" and "irreverent" 94-room boutique hotel paying homage to the Fenway's musical and artistic history will replace the shuttered and past-its-prime Howard Johnson Inn. Samuels & Associates plans to open The Verb this summer after an 
$18.8...

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Jury finds against Herald in libel suit

A Suffolk Superior Court jury yesterday found the Boston Herald responsible for defamation in a case arising from a May 28, 2009 article regarding a prison visit involving Joanna Marinova at Old Colony Prison in Bridgewater earlier that month. The newspaper...

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Fed may end stimulus this fall

The Federal Reserve could end its bond-buying stimulus this fall, and interest rates could start to rise six months later, Fed Chair Janet Yellen said yesterday after leading the Federal Open Market Committee meeting for the first time. U.S. stocks...

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Sony unveils virtual reality headset for PS4

SAN FRANCISCO — Sony is getting into the virtual reality business. The Japanese electronics and gaming giant unveiled a prototype virtual reality headset to be used in conjunction with its PlayStation 4 video game console during a Tuesday talk at the...

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Asian stocks mostly down ahead of Fed news

SEOUL, South Korea — Asian stock markets mostly drifted lower Wednesday ahead of the outcome of the Federal Reserve's first policy meeting under its new chief. The Asian heavyweight index, Tokyo's Nikkei 225, was down 0.5 percent at 14,335.81 and China's...

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Officials admit Connector fixes won’t be done till fall

The state's broken Health Connector website won't be completely fixed until this fall — a full year after it was supposed to help people sign up for health insurance — state officials acknowledged yesterday, as their latest efforts to recover from the...

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Wal-Mart to accept video game trade-ins in stores

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart plans to expand its video game trade-in program to its stores, offering store credit for thousands of video games. The world's largest retailer plans to let video game owners trade in used video games online and in Wal-Mart and Sam's...

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Study to test 'chocolate' pills for heart health

UNDATED — Chocolate lovers might perk up at word that researchers will study the potential health benefits of the yummy treat, but it's not about eating candy bars. A study of 18,000 men and women is being launched to see if pills containing the nutrients...

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‘It’s Woodstock for payment geeks’

High-profile payment industry executives visit Boston this week to talk about the future of how we pay for things at an exclusive, 
invitation-only conference. "It's really about bringing together the elite innovators in the payments and commerce space...

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Coders launch careers

A local training company is churning out a new crop of developers to help staff rapidly growing tech companies starving for talent. "We take them from absolute novice to hireable junior developer," said Dan Pickett, co-founder of Launch Academy, a full-time,...

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Boston’s winning war vs. bedbugs

Boston seems to be slowly winning its battle against bedbugs more than a decade after the scourge broke out. The number of complaints about the tiny, blood-sucking pests has dropped 16 percent, from 410 in 2012 to 344 last year, the Department of Inspectional...

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