Results tagged “business”

• If your business is struggling this month, just look out the window to get the reason for it. [Boston Globe]

Prime View International (PVI), a company based in Taiwan, has purchased E Ink Corporation. Cambridge-founded E Ink creates electronic display technologies for devices like the Kindle. Russ Wilcox, president of E Ink, said “Combining E Ink and PVI creates a single public company that is dedicated to electronic paper. With a common ownership structure, we can get closer to customers around the world, streamline the supply chain, and speed up new product development.” The deal was for about $215 million.

Say hello to new columnist Ol' Scratch, who is posting on all things retro in Boston. Here's how he describes "Retroville" to us: "Amongst Boston's many underground scenes and small, quirky social groups, a segment who are passionate about the 'classic' lifestyle has arisen. Whether it's the greasers who love rockabilly, the classy cabaret kids, the swing dancers, or the bodacious burlesquers, they've all got one thing in common: They all live in Retroville." With that ...

From Red Sox Monster, Bostonist hears that New York Giants fans have descended to pathetic levels in an attempt to boost their team's self-confidence. A radio station is distributing masks of Brady's ex and babymomma, Bridget Moynahan, in the hopes of distracting the quarterback to the Super Bowl.

One of the most famous sights in Cambridge--MIT's Stata Center, designed by Frank Gehry--is leaking. MIT is now suing Gehry for negligence. The Stata Center may look amazing on the outside, and it got a shout-out in Doonesbury, but Shelley Murphy at the Globe reports that the inside is a mess of cracks, drainage backups, and mold. MIT paid $1.5 million to fix problems in the Stata Center's amphitheater--which is a rotten icing on top...

Jordan's Furniture ran an ad right after the Red Sox won the game. President and Chief Executive Eliot Tatelman emerges in swim goggles, congratulates everyone on their free furniture, and gets a good champagne spraying. Anyone who bought a mattress, dining table, sofa, or bed at Jordan's in the spring will be reimbursed. All they need to do is fill out a rebate form and go over the FAQ to make sure you dot all...

PodCamp Boston 2 Friday, October 26 through Sunday, October 28 Boston Convention & Expo Center Free, but registration required Official Site PodCamp Boston 2 promises to teach you more than how to bedazzle an iPod, as witnessed on the reality-show I Love New York 2. The days are packed with practical seminars on creating your own web-media empire. Seminar titles include "Web 2.0 Tools That Are Actually Useful" and "Intellectual Property Law for the Creative...

A post appeared on Universal Hub earlier today saying that Editor Michael Brodeur was out at the Weekly Dig. A Phoenix post backs that up, and Dig founder and president Jeff Lawrence sent out a press release. Here's the text of the release: Boston's Weekly Dig announced today that the editor, Michael Brodeur, is no longer with the company as part of an editorial restructuring, “Michael has been a huge part of the Dig for...

Boston’s major public university made history yesterday by appointing the first black chancellor to a UMass campus. J. Keith Motley was appointed by UMass President Jack Wilson to the post, as part of a flurry of announcements yesterday that sent the current chancellor, Michael Collins, to the UMass Medical School in Worcester, where he will direct health-sciences initiatives for the university. Well known as an inspirational and charismatic leader, the exiting Chancellor’s new appointment likely...

Deval's hours old administration has stepped up and already thrown the switch quick putting the updated website live. It has only been a matter of hours since the Patrick administration has officially been the "Patrick administration" and the mass.gov website is dripping with the new governor and lieutenant governor's names. The top news story on mass.gov is an announcement of the inauguration providing a link to the new page devoted to Patrick/Murray, no longer Romney/Healey. Changing over the names emblazoned on fixtures is one of the things we're always curious about. If Menino is ever voted out of office how long will it take to remove his name from all of those signs and websites it adorns – he's even got a placard on the Zamboni that smoothes the ice on the Frog Pond. One thing that can be done quickly these days is changing the name on a website. Patrick's team has done just that.

The Brattle will be screening four of the Marx Brothers classics all day New Year's Day. A Marx Brothers marathon isn't the same as a fistful of painkillers, an ice pack, or a Bloody Mary, but some laughs might make for the best hangover cure of all. (Then again, a Thin Man marathon might be more appropriate.) The Marx Brothers Marathon will appeal to your inner post-party beast by screening Animal Crackers, Duck Soup, Horse...

The cease and desist letter is an amazing beast. We've only gotten a handful of them since we've been making ourselves known on the internets – but never one from Harvard. That's one thing that sets us apart from the Hahvahd Tour. The student run two-hour tour of the historic campus was hit with the letter earlier this summer just after they had launched their summer entrepreneurial venture. But now, just a short while after the semester began, they've become an official student business and trademark violations have been dropped.

A free concert put on every Thusday Night in the summer by the Springfield Business Imporovement District starts at 7:30 pm, and runs till late. The event first happened in 1999 and has been a huge success since, drawing 4,000 to 6,000 people for each Thursday night, and has become a big draw for bikers and music lovers from NY, Conn., Eastern Mass., Rhode Island, and Vermont, in addition to Western Mass. locals. With...

-ranked-38-on-the-list" little city. One thing we can always count on in Boston is Filene's Basement, a little chunk of discounted-retail heaven on earth.

Sunday the Red Sox saw the turnstiles click past 1 million so far this season. The pace is record setting for crowds at Fenway. This year capacity rests slightly above last years number, allowing for the fastest millionth fan to visit Fenway in years past. It was their 28th home bout, just after a walk-off Ortiz home-run to end their 27th. By some sketchy math attendance looks to be about 36,250 per game. Recently bloggers and professional sports writers have opined for the days when the average Joe Boston could a) get tickets to Fenway Park to see the Sox play and b) pay a reasonable price for said tickets. There are certainly some expensive seats, and it's unlikely that they'll be declining anytime in the near future. Business savvy of owner John Henry won't allow for it.

Bostonist likes movies and we like when people from our neck of the woods make movies, and we really like when those movies get screened in Boston and we get tickets. So we're excited, because Georgia Lee, a Harvard grad who dropped out of Harvard Business School to apprentice with Martin Scorcese in making "Gangs of New York," has made a movie of her own and we have five pairs of tickets for lucky Bostonist...

Business podcasts are different from podcasts put out by your everyday person. Companies put time and effort in to podcasting to attract attention and bring more business to the table. Blogging has been doing the same thing for businesses for three or four years now. Just as blogging taught business that you need to bring interesting content to reader podcast listeners demand the same level of quality.

We learn from today's Globe that a pact among New England states to reduce the industrial emissions that cause global warming is hitting the skids because our dear governor has reservations (even though he initially said he supported it). Not surprisingly, these reservations have to do with limiting any cost increases for the business sector. What's curious, though, is that this particular plan to reduce pollution is just the kind of arrangement that free-market guys like Mitt are supposed to love.

Bostonist hates to beat an uninsured horse, but big news is big news: The state House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed Speaker Sal DiMasi's proposal to provide healthcare to practically everyone, mostly by taxing businesses. Business groups had initially complained that the proposal imposed an unfair double-tax on certain companies with highly paid employees. Not surprisingly, the correction of this problem didn't change their minds. Bostonist will be interested to see how the Governor, who has joined in saying that this healthcare plan will hurt the state's economy, will phrase his criticism so as not to damn his own record. The Globe quotes Plymouth Republican Vinny deMacedo as saying that the Commonwealth's "job growth is anemic, and the business community is struggling." But Romney, who has touted himself as a businessy-managery-no-nonsense-capitalist type of guy, probably doesn't want to say that his governorship is a failure on the economic front, given that his Republican would-be backers for the presidency already think he's blown it on the moral front.

While Bostonist and, we imagine, most of the rest of the Commonwealth's population, are thinking about Theo Epstein's departure, our legislature is considering a matter that may well affect us more (and Theo not at all): expanding healthcare coverage. You may recall that back in July, the Governor proposed a healthcare plan that would make purchasing health insurance mandatory for everyone. This idea was roundly panned by commentators, but yesterday, Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi presented a proposal that incorporates some elements of Romney's mandatory coverage, but puts a much larger burden on employers.

The town of Brookline was the first to start a ban on smoking in restaurants and bars in November 1993, and since then, other towns and cities have followed suit. The state has set up some hefty fines ($300 per Business that violates it and $100 per smoker) but says that Boston has only had a dozen or so violations in 2005. Sorry smokers, but it looks like you'll still be relegated to the cold outdoors to have a cigarette. With this news today, it looks like this ban is here to stay.

Last month we found out security was breached at ChoicePoint through some creative social-engineering and heads roll. Yeasterday, Bostonist heard that 119 applicants to the Harvard Business School are being denied admission after prematurely looking at the status of their application. An internet persona going by the name of "brookbond" posted intstructions on how to gain access to the ApplyYourself online admissions site to view the admission decision letters. A posting to a public forum on the BusinessWeek website showed methods to access the information nearly a month ahead of the anticipated mailing. In the course of 9 hours (before the letters were removed from the site) 119 applicants followed the instructions and took a sneak peek at the results of their application for Harvard’s Business School.