MBTA won’t be capitalizing on station naming rights

The MBTA won't be putting corporate names on stations anytime soon as only one bid for naming rights was filed by yesterday's deadline, and it didn't meet the minimum qualifications, officials said. "We have to figure out why it didn't work this time,"...

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MFA director Rogers retiring after 20 years

Malcolm Rogers, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, announced his plans to retire yesterday after nearly 20 years with the museum. Appointed in 1994, Rogers helped to open the Art of the Americas Wing in 2010, which features 53 galleries and the glass-enclosed...

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‘Moneyball’ event playing in Hub

A "who's who" of the professional sports world — from owners, coaches and athletes to business leaders, researchers and other supporting players — converges on Boston today to examine the increasing role that analytics play in the industry. Some 2,000...

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Mass. may ditch Obamacare website

State officials still grappling with a backlog of 54,000 paper applications are considering scrapping Massachusetts' botched Obamacare website, which already has cost taxpayers about $15 million. The state's options include continuing to try to fix...

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Estimated Q4 economic growth rate cut to 2.4 pct.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew at a 2.4 percent annual rate last quarter, sharply less than first thought, in part because consumers didn't spend as much as initially estimated. Severe winter weather is expected to further slow the economy in the...

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Medford dials into Smart911

Calling 911 with an emergency is getting smarter, thanks to Framingham-based Rave Mobile Safety's Smart911. Launching in Medford today, Smart911 allows residents to fill out profiles in advance, giving first responders valuable information before they...

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US safety agency to probe GM recall response

DETROIT — The U.S. government's auto safety watchdog is investigating whether General Motors acted quickly enough to recall 1.6 million older-model small cars in a case linked to 13 deaths. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday...

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Smarterer raises $1.6M, adds new CEO

Smarterer, a Boston company that offers online skill assessments through quizzes, has raised $1.6 million for its new product for businesses, Flock. With the investment led by Rethink Education, an education technology venture capital firm, Smarterer...

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Applications for US jobless benefits rise to 348K

WASHINGTON — The number of people applying for U.S. unemployment benefits rose 14,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 348,000, though the broader trend in applications remained stable. But the four-week average was unchanged at 338,250, the Labor...

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Ukraine crisis roils markets in Europe

LONDON — An escalation in tensions in the Ukrainian region of Crimea rocked European markets on Thursday before a relatively calm opening on Wall Street helped to ease the nerves. Worries that the crisis in Ukraine was spreading accentuated soon after...

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Spark Capital hires firm's first woman VC

Spark Capital, one of the most high profile venture capital firms in Boston, has hired former Google employee Katie Bolin as an associate, the firm's first female investor. Bolin, formerly the analytical lead/acting sales operations manager at Google,...

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Data-breach costs take toll on Target profit

NEW YORK — Target Corp. will be feeling the financial pain for a while from the theft of credit card numbers and other information from millions of its customers. The retailer said Wednesday that its fourth-quarter profit slumped 46 percent. It also...

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Stock futures rise as investors assess earnings

NEW YORK — U.S. stock futures edged higher as investors assessed company earnings and waited for new data on the housing market. KEEPING SCORE: Dow Jones industrial average futures were up three points at 16,190 as of 9:18 a.m. Eastern time. The Standard...

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Hoffman's friend creates playwriting foundation

NEW YORK — A close friend of Philip Seymour Hoffman has settled a libel lawsuit against The National Enquirer by creating a playwriting foundation to be initially funded by the tabloid. In a one-page ad Wednesday in The New York Times, The Enquirer...

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Police: No charges for singer Bieber's driver

SANDY SPRINGS, Georgia — Police near Atlanta say they've decided not to charge a driver for Justin Bieber with any crimes after a photographer said his camera was stolen during a confrontation with the singer's entourage. Sandy Springs police said Wednesday...

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US home prices dip for second straight month

WASHINGTON — U.S. home prices fell for the second straight month in December as brutally cold weather, tight supply and higher costs slowed sales. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index declined 0.1 percent from November to...

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German cartoonist regrets Zuckerberg caricature

BERLIN — A German cartoonist has apologized for causing offense by depicting Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as a hooked-nose octopus. The cartoon published Friday in an early edition of Munich daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung prompted complaints of anti-Semitism...

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Rebekah Brooks: I felt 'horror' at Dowler hacking

LONDON — Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks said Tuesday that she never sanctioned phone hacking, and was horrified when she learned the tabloid had targeted the cellphone of a missing teenager. Brooks answered "no" when asked by her lawyer...

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Stocks open lower ahead of confidence report

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks are getting off to a weak start as investors hold back ahead of a report on consumer confidence. The Standard & Poor's 500 fell three points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,844 in the first few minutes of trading Tuesday. Energy and...

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USDA spending $3M to feed honeybees in Midwest

MILWAUKEE — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend millions of dollars to help farmers and ranchers improve pastures in five Midwestern states to provide food for the nation's struggling honeybees under a program to be announced Tuesday. Commercial...

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