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Ink Block project pens new story for South End “desert”

By Michelle Marino February 12, 2015

A few years ago, it would have been difficult to imagine the abandoned Boston Herald headquarters in the South End completely revitalized into a modern and sophisticated retail and residential complex....

Marci Sapers is a marketing specialist and advisor for several companies including Staples and P&G. PHOTO COURTESY OF MARCI SAPERS

Marketing maven Marci Sapers speaks on breaking into business

By Amanda Lucidi February 5, 2015

Marci Sapers has had quite the career, with 25 years of brand building, strategic planning and training experience. The former vice president of marketing excellence at Gillette is now the advisor for...

Spotzer, an app which finished its first round of funding this month, hopes to change the way visitors experience museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. PHOTO BY FALON MORAN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston start-up Spotzer aims to sync mobile with Monet

By Becca DeGregorio January 29, 2015

Digesting visual art, from cubist Picasso to dancey Degas, takes work. Developing artistic taste can beg even more. As fewer and fewer people find themselves making the effort, the museum industry is...

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh speaks at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in October. StartHub, a new service for start-up businesses, was highlighted by Walsh in the State of the City address on Jan. 13. PHOTO BY EVAN JONES/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

StartHub initiative promotes start-up innovation

By Madeleine O’Keefe January 22, 2015

Just as its residents resolve to lay off fast food and turn off Netflix, Boston itself is making some changes of its own. In his State of the City address on Jan. 13, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced...

Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, spoke to School of Management students about concepts from his book, “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.” PHOTO BY JACQUI BUSICK/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel lectures on his book at BUzz Lab event Tuesday

By Olivia Deng December 11, 2014

Competitive markets are not the best fodder for innovation. Pursuing higher education is a deterministic concept that has been engrained into students’ minds. Those are just some of the unusual ideas...

People shop at the Prudential Center in Boston Wednesday. This Black Friday, a popular shopping holiday, fewer people participated than in previous years. PHOTO BY MAE DAVIS/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Retail stores find ways to keep Black Friday, holiday season mobbed

By Devon Capizzi December 4, 2014

For many Americans, Thanksgiving weekend is family time as much as it is shopping time. Heralded as the busiest shopping day of the year, Black Friday sees stores such as Best Buy, Target, and Walmart...

Mei Mei is one of many Boston restaurants with food trucks and conventional restaurant locations. PHOTO BY CARLY ROSE WILLING/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Food truck trend lets Boston restaurateurs test-drive new ideas

By Tafi Mukunyadzi December 4, 2014

Whether looking for a full meal or just a snack, businesspeople, college students and tourists alike flock to brightly-colored vehicles offering nearly every kind of food, from Vietnamese to Mexican to...

Massachusetts gas prices have fallen 3 cents this week, which is a trend of decreasing prices at pumps across the country, according to a Monday press release from AAA Southern New England. PHOTO VIA FREEPHOTO.COM

Massachusetts gas prices continue to fall below $3 per gallon

By Alexandra DelloStritto November 20, 2014

After years of high gas prices, drivers in Massachusetts will be able to fill up their tanks without breaking the bank. Gas prices in Massachusetts fell 3 cents last week, according to a Monday press...

The market for gluten-free products is expanding as more people become aware of the health benefits of the diet. GRAPHIC BY SAMANTHA GROSS/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Gluten-free trend incites app startups, expects increased market value in coming years

By Amanda Lucidi November 20, 2014

Gluten, the protein composite that everyone loves to hate, has proven to be lucrative for businesses as more restaurants offer food that excludes wheat, barley, rye and wheat-rye hybrid triticale. Businesses...

Jacqueline Thong is the co-founder and CEO of Klio Health, a web and mobile health care platform aimed at simplifying the health care system. PHOTO COURTESY OF JACQUELINE THONG

Women InBusiness: Jacqueline Thong of Klio Health digitizes healthcare

By Meagan Dawson November 13, 2014

This is part of a bi-weekly series of profiles about women in business. Although it may seem like there’s no limit to what one can do with an iPhone nowadays, there are still holes in the technology...

Boston community members mingle before the “Intro to the Boston Design Community” at the General Assembly meeting at 51 Melcher St. Tuesday night. PHOTO BY ERIN BILLINGS/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The ABCs of CSS: The InBusiness guide to coding programs in Boston

By Olivia Deng November 13, 2014

Although a U.S. Department of Labor report announced Friday the lowest unemployment rate since July 2008, issues such as minimum wage, which the report also indicated has only increased 2 percent since...

During the fiscal year 2014, 15 of 19 Boston colleges and universities enrolled in the voluntary Payment-in-Lieu-of-Tax, or PILOT, program failed to meet their suggested payment amount. GRAPHIC BY OLIVIA DENG/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU falls short of PILOT payment, still contributes most of all other educational institutions

By Olivia Deng November 6, 2014

During fiscal year 2014, 15 of the 19 colleges and universities in Boston did not pay their suggested amounts agreed upon as part of a program of voluntary contributions in lieu of taxes, known as the...

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