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Understanding the Healthcare IT Opportunity: Audio from Panel Discussion
I moderated a panel last week at the Association for...

Six lessons learned from the family business
About five years ago, I made one of those life altering decisions; I joined the CPA firm that my father had started back in 1984....

Tax credit - market savior or addiction?
It’s hard to argue that home sales are not on a roll again, both locally and nationally. OK, housing bears, feel free to let me...

Compensation for training and unemployment
Q: My husband is drawing unemployment. He has gone to...

Roaring through Mass. in the McLaren F1
Herb Chambers takes us for a ride in his 240 mph McLaren F1....

Who's what, where?
Here's your guide to personnel changes in Massachusetts.

Chats

Previous chats
- 11/10/09 Savings Q&A
- 11/09/09 Job Doc transcript
- 11/02/09 Job Doc transcript
- 10/30/09 Mass. economy Q&A

Podcasts

Mass. home sales rise,
but prices still down
October sales of single-family homes in Massachusetts jumped 17.2 percent from October 2008, but median prices slipped from year-ago levels.

When is shopping on Black Friday worth the effort?
Whether it's worth participating depends on who's shopping, what they want, and all the costs involved.

Staying out of the market
Arthur Caparell would love to be riding the stock market's recent resurgence, but he's still trying to recover from the recession's blows.
- Discuss Are you putting your money back in the market?
- Steven Syre Many Massachusetts firms breathe easier
- Also A grim forecast for venture capital firms

More headlines

- Relax without getting the ax; Fewer turkey naps
- ND landowner sues Midcontinent over cable
- Oprah Winfrey's impact felt around the world
- Montana grain growers seek to mediate with BNSF
- New jobs for 2 SC counties with high unemployment
- Maine single-family home sales rise in October
- On the call: Bill Johnson CEO
- Smart Spending: When Black Friday is worth effort
- MassEcon creates Web listing of business sites
- Allied Healthcare 4Q profit rises as costs dip

Technology

News Corp., Microsoft in search talks
News Corp. is considering blocking Google Inc.'s search engine from displaying its news articles and is talking to Microsoft Corp. about listing only on its site.

Personal finance


A look at the dark underbelly of the credit card industry
Plastic as much a part of the American way as Mom, apple pie, and the flag.

Columnists


Markets

Reports on consumer confidence, GDP tug at stocks
Stocks retreated from 13-month highs after a lackluster reading on consumer confidence and a report showing slower economic growth sapped the market's optimism.

Healthcare

Millipore to own all of India venture
BILLERICA - Millipore Corp. , a provider of equipment and services to the life sciences industry, said yesterday that it will buy the remaining stake in its joint venture in India, Millipore India Pvt. Ltd.

Real Estate

Boston convention center expansion faces hurdles
Under a proposal announced yesterday, the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center could become a 1-million-square foot tourism "campus."

- Commercial properties Find or sell office space


Jobs

A slow jobs recovery in 2010?
A recent survey of economists indicates that the joblessness that has weighed down the US economic recovery will slowly start to abate in 2010.

Cars

Koenigsegg won't buy Saab from GM
The decision by the Swedish specialty car maker casts serious doubt on the future of Saab, which General Motors wanted to sell or close this year.

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