Boston 2024 panel touts plan for getting around Olympics on foot

Boston's hopes to land the Summer Olympics will hinge upon creating a "compact" games, where venues would be either within walking distance of each other or accessible by mass transit, the head of Boston 2024 said yesterday. Many of the venues would...

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Janet Yellen decries income inequality

Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen said yesterday that rising income inequality in the U.S. is at odds with American values. "It is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high...

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Southie truck bypass goes out to bid

Massport has put out to bid a $22.5 million construction contract for the new Thomas J. Butler freight corridor that would take Conley Container Terminal truck traffic off of South Boston's residential East First Street. The project, which has a total...

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Apple juices up line of gadgets

Apple Inc. unveiled its latest gadget updates yesterday, rolling out new iPads with fingerprint recognition and a new version of its iMac desktop computer. At its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., chief executive Tim Cook announced the iPad Air 2,...

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Asian stocks sag as US growth jitters mount

TOKYO — Asian stock markets sank Thursday after a torrid session on Wall Street triggered by jitters the recovery in the world's No. 1 economy is weakening. KEEPING SCORE: Tokyo's Nikkei 225 dived 2.2 percent to 14,736.90 as the dollar tumbled against...

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Fresh Ebola fears hit airline stocks

DALLAS — News that a nurse diagnosed with Ebola flew on a plane full of passengers raised fear among airline investors that the scare over the virus could cause travelers to avoid flying. Shares of the biggest U.S. airlines tumbled between 5 and 8 percent...

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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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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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MIT celebrates ties to Nobel economics winner The announcement that a French economist had won the Nobel Prize for economics set off celebrations yesterday across the Atlantic at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has strong ties....

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Fuel meter co. to gas up with Kickstarter

A Somerville startup could be the next big innovation in the burgeoning smart-home industry as its fuel monitor hits Kickstarter next week. Tank Utility, the brainchild of former EnerNOC mechanical engineer Nick Mashburn, is coming out of stealth mode...

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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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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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