From: http://www.boston.com/business Despite the seasonal name, the very first store in the Christmas Tree Shops bargain home goods chain wasn’t open around the holiday. It did, however, focus on the season. The first store called the Christmas Tree Shop was opened in Yarmouth Port in the 1950s by a Cape Cod couple, Mark and Alice Mathews. […]
From: http://www.bizjournals.com/ A new partnership with a Boston-based startup will allow people to pay their city of Boston parking tickets using their smartphones. The city announced the partnership on Tuesday with TicketZen, a company created by Boston-based software design firm Terrible Labs. The service is the result of a request for proposals issued by the city, which invited […]
Big cities tend to have big pollution problems. But the very source of that bad air — tens of thousands of trips made by crawling, stalling, fuming taxi cabs — could offer city planners a more granular look at the pollution problem. It could even reveal suggestions for fixes, two studies of cab habits in Beijing and New […]
From: bizjournals.com Arbella Insurance Group’s President and CEO John Donohue has been chosen to receive the 2014 Lewis Family Foundation CEO Social Leadership Award as part of the Boston Business Journal’s annual Corporate Citizenship Summit. The award, which is funded by the Lewis Family Foundation, recognizes exceptional civic leadership by executives in the Boston business community. Donohue spearheaded […]
From: http://bdcwire.com/ Within the first twenty feet, Andrew Schmidt was sold on it. Prior to his first visit to Superpedestrian’s office in Cambridge, Schmidt knew enough about the Copenhagen Wheel to see the potential. He had been introduced to the electric bike startup by a friend. The Superpedestrian team was looking for someone to do the […]
A triangular structure looms over Harvard Square, its large windows beaming light onto the street. Ribbons wrap around its granite columns and murals decorate the walls inside. The building houses Curious George and Friends, a store remembered fondly by Cantabridgians as a friendly neighborhood bookstore. It closed four years ago and stood vacant, its windows […]
From: bizjournals.com Boston-based venture capital firm Battery Ventures has announced three new promotions. Principals Alex Benik and Brian Lieber are now partners at the firm, and Morad Elhafed, formerly vice president for the venture firm, is now a principal. Benik joined Battery Ventures in 2001 and was based in Silicon Valley until 2006, when he moved to the firm’s Boston office. He […]
Google brought its Google Glass road show to Boston this weekend, holding an open house of sorts at the Cyclorama in the South End on Saturday.The press was allowed to head over and get a sneak preview of the event on Friday, so of course I jumped at the chance.As Cal Borchers reported last week, the […]
Boston drivers, stereotype has it, aren’t the kindest. So imagine the first time such a stereotypical driver, who has been puttering around a neighborhood looking for a spot for 20 minutes, sees another driver ready to leave his spot deliberately holding it for a specific car. It wouldn’t be pretty. But it might happen soon. […]
You probably know the sickening feeling when you glance down at your cell phone and see that it has died. Soon, you might find some help at Boston parks in the form of a “Soofa,” a new bench designed to let passersby charge their phones. “Your cell phone doesn’t just make phone calls, why should […]
