Hey, there! Log in / Register

Business

By adamg - 9/14/23 - 12:28 pm
Lina Ghantous

The Boston Licensing Board today gave Lina Ghantous permission to start selling beer and wine at her Welcome Buddy convenience store at 4196 Washington St. in Roslindale. Read more.

By adamg - 9/10/23 - 1:06 pm

A South Hadley man last week filed what he hopes will be a class action against Mapfre USA over the way hackers obtained personal information for Massachusetts drivers from its get-a-quote Web site. Read more.

By adamg - 9/7/23 - 11:47 am

A judge in Boston federal court today sentenced Vladislav Klyushin, who ran a Moscow online consulting firm, to nine years in prison for running a hacking scheme that netted him and his employees $93 million by making stock trades on companies whose financial data they obtained before the information was made public. Read more.

By adamg - 8/31/23 - 10:40 am

The John B. Cruz Construction Co. yesterday sued Beacon Communities over the way it charges Beacon pushed it out of a project to rebuild the Boston Housing Authority's 357-unit Lenox/Camden complex in Roxbury. Read more.

By adamg - 8/28/23 - 8:56 pm

Mapfre Insurance is notifying customers that somebody was able to get into its "online quoting platform" for Massachusetts residents last month and retrieve information about Massachusetts residents and their cars. Read more.

By adamg - 8/25/23 - 11:54 am

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that Secretary of State Bill Galvin did nothing wrong in accusing online investment firm Robinhood of giving bad investment advice to the online poor to enrich itself. Read more.

By adamg - 8/24/23 - 9:51 pm

Steve Cooper posts video of one store owner running across Charles Street to rip the spray paint out of the hand of a daylight tagger (audio is NSFW).

By adamg - 8/24/23 - 3:52 pm
James Schaff

The Beacon Hill Times reports four successful break-ins and one failed attempt this past weekend along Charles Street; quotes one business owner who no longer feels safe on the street after moving there from Newbury Street. Read more.

By adamg - 8/23/23 - 12:36 pm
Message confirming opt-out, followed by new ad text

Star said it would leave her alone, then didn't, based on her texts.

A woman who says she is fed up with the weekly messages Star Market sends her about sales and stuff yesterday sued the chain under a federal law that's requires marketers give consumers an actual way to opt out. Read more.

By adamg - 8/22/23 - 10:37 am
Snack-sized Macy's

A Macy's with no escalators.

Macy's says it will be opening a micro-Macy's at the South Bay mall next month. Read more.

By adamg - 8/21/23 - 11:11 am
1001 Boylston St. overlooking the turnpike

1001 Boylston on the left, with new turnpike scenic overlook.

The Lego Group announced today it's leased five stories at 1001 Boylston St. - the new tower at Boylston and Mass Ave. - and expects to begin moving its US corporate operations there from Enfield, CT. starting in the middle of 2025. Read more.

By adamg - 8/20/23 - 11:33 am
Mitchell

The Boston Licensing Board last week approved Niki Mitchell's application to tell fortunes at 205 Portland St. near North Station.
Read more.

By adamg - 8/15/23 - 9:21 pm
Rendering of proposed condo building on Baker Street

Rendering of the view from the roof of Lissa's Beauty Bar across the street, by Lucio Trabucco.

Baker Street Market owner Louis Dakoyannis tonight showed neighbors his proposal to replace the store at the corner of Baker and Vermont streets in West Roxbury with a four-story, 14-unit condo building that would also have ground-floor space for a new convenience store - but one about a third the size of his current market. Read more.

By adamg - 8/15/23 - 3:38 pm

A Dorchester woman admitted Friday she stole more than $100,000 in a year from people applying to rent apartments in Hyde Park, Dorchester and Roxbury by charging them twice as much for security deposits as her employer normally would, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 8/15/23 - 3:00 pm

An East Boston man who lives right above the now closed Maverick House Tavern on Maverick Street at Bremen Street, says he is getting it ready to re-open next month as a Latino-themed restaurant with consulting help from another local restaurant operator - who could take over as the place's manager if he works out. Read more.

By adamg - 8/15/23 - 2:01 pm

The city today launched a pilot program in Allston in which eight local businesses will use battery-powered cargo bikes to make deliveries in Allston and nearby locations. Read more.

By adamg - 8/14/23 - 9:49 am

An irate citizen files a 311 complaint about angry, menacing food deliverers on scooters in the Back Bay: Read more.

By adamg - 8/13/23 - 3:33 pm
Fire anew at Readville scrapyard

Photo by David Shorr.

Firefighters had to return to the scene of yesterday's scrapyard fire on Wolcott Street in Readville this morning when it reignited this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 8/13/23 - 12:33 pm

Jefferson County, KY - which includes the city of Louisville - had to cancel school Thursday and Friday and is canceling it again Monday and Tuesday, because of the failure of a new bus routing system based in large part on software from a Waltham company. Read more.

By adamg - 8/12/23 - 10:02 am
Logo fight: N&D vs. N&D

From the complaint.

A subsidiary of the Dedham's Norfolk & Dedham Group that has a program to offer gift cards to safe drivers called N&Drive, says the last thing it needs is to be associated with party buses, so it's suing N&D Night Out of Easton, which offers party buses and vans, to try to force that company to change its name. Read more.

Subscribe to Business