What happens if Twinkies really do go away?

Let's not panic. We all know that Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Wonder bread and the rest of Hostess Brands' oddly everlasting foods aren't going away any time soon, even if the food culture that created them is gasping its last. Yes, Hostess is shutting...

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Nokia Lumia 920 brightest light for Windows phones

The masterfully botched launch of Windows 8 phones brought zero lines of eager consumers to wireless retailers across the nation. But here we have Microsoft's last chance to show its smartphone gambit is for real. The Windows 8 platform has been refined...

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Focus Electric needs more range

The long and winding road to building a better electric car continues, though it is a very long road, indeed. Case in point is the Focus Electric, the first passenger vehicle from Ford to be powered solely by electricity. It looks like a gas-powered...

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Fidelity shifts to Seaport

Fidelity Investments is moving its corporate headquarters to Summer Street on the edge of the Innovation District — a change that analysts say signals a major shift in the Financial District toward the Southie waterfront and reaffirms the financial giant's...

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Crowd-funding finds way to real estate financing

Crowd-funding has transformed the startup landscape, but can the insular world of real estate benefit from this model as well? It's being tried in different forms, mostly centered on commercial real estate. The Boston startup Collaperty, for instance,...

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Business - BostonHerald.com

Business - BostonHerald.comBusiness - BostonHerald.com http://www.bostonherald.com/business/?srvc=rss The Boston Herald online: The closest distance between you and the news en-us Copyright 2012, Herald Interactive, Inc. Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:11:48 -0500...

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SKorean presidential hopeful vows freer Internet

SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean presidential candidate is promising to get rid of encryption technology that ties South Korean Internet users to a single web browser — Microsoft's Internet Explorer — for online transactions. Ahn Cheol-soo, a popular...

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Forecasters predict buying bonanza

Massachusetts retailers hope for a third straight year of holiday sales increases amid growing consumer confidence despite the looming "fiscal cliff." The Retailers Association of Massachusetts is forecasting a 3.5 percent rise in November and December...

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How new Google Nexus 10 compares with rivals

Google has started shipping a larger version of its Nexus tablet computer, one that comes closer to competing with Apple's full-size iPad and other tablets. Here's a look at how the Nexus 10 compares with other tablets with similar screens. Google...

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Egad! Nexus 10 nearly outperforms iPad

The Nexus 10 could be an iPad killer. It comes so darn close I can almost taste it. But it's not quite there yet. In some ways, Google's new 10-inch tablet is better than the iPad. The grippy, rubbery body is more accessible than the hard-as-a-rock...

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RIM offers free voice calls over Wi-Fi with BBM

TORONTO — BlackBerry users will be able to make free voice calls over a Wi-Fi network using the popular BBM messaging service. Research In Motion Ltd. announced Wednesday that it's adding the feature to BBM. Users will be able to switch back and forth...

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Wal-Mart launches food subscription service

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Wednesday will officially launch a mail subscription service, called Goodies, that lets shoppers discover new foods from the comfort of their homes. For a monthly fee of $7 that includes tax and shipping, customers...

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Former Obama regulatory chief has book deal

NEW YORK — A former Obama administration official has a book coming about how government might work in the future. Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama's regulatory chief for three years, has a deal with Simon & Schuster for "Simpler: The Future...

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Obama pressing business and labor on fiscal cliff

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is lobbying business and labor groups to support his plan to avoid an impending fiscal cliff, telling the two sides he remains committed to requiring the wealthy to pay more in taxes. Obama was meeting Wednesday...

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Europe's workers stage austerity protests

BRUSSELS — Workers across the European Union sought to present a united front against rampant unemployment and government spending cuts Wednesday with a string of strikes and demonstrations across the region. However, while austerity-hit countries...

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Brookline votes to ban Styrofoam use

BROOKLINE — Residents of Brookline have voted to bar eating establishments in town from using Styrofoam beverage cups and takeout food containers. Town Meeting in the Boston suburb on Tuesday voted 169-27 to bar the use of polystyrene foam, commonly...

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Investors inject $15M boost into patient-monitoring device co.

A Waltham company that makes patient-monitoring devices yesterday announced that it has completed a $15 million financing round led by Pitango Venture Capital. EarlySense plans to use the financing to further develop its contact-free, monitoring solutions,...

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Union Oyster House named top eatery

History is on the side of Union Oyster House. Established in 1826, the Retailers Association of Massachusetts' "Restaurant of the Year" is the nation's oldest restaurant, and the only one that's a national historic landmark. "We have a really unique...

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Joe Tucci: Don't blow budget talks

EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci yesterday said Democrats and Republicans will have to compromise to avoid going over the year-end fiscal cliff and sending the nation back into recession. At the Techonomy 2012 conference in Tucson, Ariz., Tucci said it...

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Concord shop parades like big cheese

If a parade to celebrate the arrival of the "Big Cheese" — a 400-pound wheel of Crucolo cheese from Italy — sounds fun, that's the point. Dec. 6 is the date for the Concord Cheese Shop's third annual Crucolo parade, which in past years has included...

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Yahoo apologizes after fantasy site goes down

Yahoo Sports is apologizing for a site outage that left thousands of fantasy football players complaining of last-minute lineup problems and possible lost money on an NFL Sunday. Ken Fuchs, head of entertainment, sports and games at Yahoo Inc., emailed...

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Target has earlier start for holiday kickoff

NEW YORK — Target Corp. will open its doors at 9:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving, three hours earlier than a year ago, to kick off the holiday shopping season. The discounter joins several other major retailers, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., that are opening...

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Toyota tests cars that communicate with each other

SUSONO, Japan — Toyota Motor Corp. is testing car safety systems that allow vehicles to communicate with each other and with the roads they are on in a just completed facility in Japan the size of three baseball stadiums. The cars at the Intelligent...

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Signature brands make comebacks

Automakers are always looking for ways to be original when unveiling new models. In certain instances, this means shifting gears and storing vintage nameplates in the garage. "There just aren't that many that survive from the old days," said Scott Oldham,...

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British medical journal slams Roche on Tamiflu

LONDON — A leading British medical journal is asking the drug maker Roche to release all its data on Tamiflu, claiming there is no evidence the drug can actually stop the flu. The drug has been stockpiled by dozens of governments worldwide in case...

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Angela Merkel risks protests in visit to Portugal

LISBON, Portugal — German Chancellor Angela Merkel was on Monday making another trip to a bailed-out eurozone country where many people blame her government for the harsh austerity measures they are enduring. Merkel was due to pay a brief visit to...

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The Ticker

Hydroid's sub station Robotic mini-sub maker Hydroid Inc. will break ground later this week on a new research and manufacturing facility in Pocasset on Cape Cod. The subsidiary of Norway-based Kongsberg Maritime makes autonomous underwater vehicles...

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Extended warranties: Value is a matter of personal choice

I would like to comment on your recent column on whether it is worthwhile to buy an extended warranty for a car. Extended warranties are provided by companies that need to earn a profit. In order to do this, they have to collect more money from their...

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Microsoft hopes to 'break barriers' with translator

Reason No. 2,347 why Microsoft is making the world more like Star Trek: its latest voice translation project. In an astonishing video that's making its way around the web, the company's chief research officer Rick Rashid speaks before an audience in...

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