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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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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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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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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Ebola monitoring inconsistent as virus spread

DALLAS — The top administrator in Dallas County rushed to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital this week responding to urgent news: One of its nurses had caught Ebola from a patient. He quickly asked for the hospital's watch list to find out who else might...

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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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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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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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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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CNN cancels 'Crossfire,' other shows in wake of Turner cuts

CNN has quietly cancelled "Crossfire," "Unguarded with Rachel Nichols," "Sanjay Gupta, M.D." and "CNN Money" in the wake of cost-cutting by parent company Turner Broadcasting, according to people familiar with the situation. Turner announced last week...

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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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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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Amazon hires 80K seasonal holiday workers

NEW YORK — Amazon is hiring 80,000 seasonal workers for its distribution centers as it looks to improve its shipping efficiency during the crucial holiday season. The figure is a 14 percent increase over last year's hiring of 70,000 workers, as Amazon...

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Chrysler recalling nearly 907,000 cars, SUVs

DETROIT — Nearly 907,000 Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep SUVs and cars are being recalled for alternators that can fail and heated power mirror wiring that can short and cause minor fires. The recalls, posted Thursday by U.S. safety regulators, push the total...

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UK judge: No payout to cleared hacking defendant

LONDON — The judge in Britain's phone hacking trial said Wednesday that acquitted defendant Charles Brooks shouldn't be reimbursed for his legal costs because even though he was innocent, his behavior was "incredibly stupid" and suspicious. Brooks was...

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US retail sales fell in September on autos and gas

WASHINGTON — U.S. retail sales retreated in September as purchases of autos, gasoline, furniture and clothing slowed, a sign that recent job gains have yet to significantly boost consumer spending. The Commerce Department said Wednesday that seasonally...

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Walmart launches InstaWatch to increase digital downloads from discs

The addition of digital copies of movies with Blu-rays was meant to help make the physical discs more popular to consumers. Few shoppers are actually redeeming the codes, however, with some saying the process is too time consuming or just plain confusing....

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NBC Sports Digital launches 'Sportsworld,' its version of ESPN's Grantland

NBC Sports Digital has launched SportsWorld, a microsite within NBCSports.com dedicated to long-form storytelling stocked with stories, essays, videos and documentary films -- an attempt to engage sports fans beyond the news and scores of the day, in...

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US producer prices fell 0.1 percent in September

WASHINGTON — Inflation was limited last month because of falling gasoline and food costs that have lowered the prices that U.S. companies received for their goods and services. The Labor Department said Wednesday that the producer price index fell 0.1...

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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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Zuckerberg in Indonesia for Internet-access push

JAKARTA, Indonesia — On his first visit to Facebook-crazy Indonesia, Mark Zuckerberg met the president-elect, spread the word about his company's global Internet-access initiative and posted a photo of himself at an ancient Buddhist temple. The Facebook...

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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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Report: Starz to launch streaming service in international markets

CANNES - U.S. pay TV outfit Starz is to launch in international markets with the creation of the international Starz Play service, according to a press report. It has inked a pact with Peter Ekelund's Swedish media group Parsifal Entertainment, which...

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Frenchman Tirole wins Nobel economics prize

STOCKHOLM — French economist Jean Tirole won the Nobel prize for economics Monday for research on market power and regulation that has helped policy-makers understand how to deal with industries dominated by a few companies. Calling Tirole "one of the...

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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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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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Global finance leaders pledge bold efforts

WASHINGTON — World financial leaders on Saturday promised "bold and ambitious" action to boost a global recovery that has shown recent disturbing signs of weakness. That pledge from the International Monetary Fund's policy-setting committee comes after...

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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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