Roger Farrington Tim Ferriss (left) and Steve DiFillippo at the BUILDFest gala. BUILD Greater Boston, an organization that gets young people excited about business by giving them real-life entrepreneurial experiences, honored some supporters at its BUILDFest Gala Fundraiser Student Business Expo last week at the Westin Copley. The honorees were “The 4-Hour Workweek” author and philanthropist Tim Ferriss, Davio’s boss Steve DiFillippo, and the city’s Chief of Economic Development John Barros. (Barros couldn’t make it to the Thursday event Continue reading >>>

Boston tech is in the middle of a passionate love affair with an entire country: France. Today’s announcement that the Publicis Groupe, one of the world’s largest advertising and marketing conglomerates, has acquired Boston-based Sapient for somewhere in the ballpark of $3.7 billion, is just another example of a relationship that is starting to develop into something more than just a few suggestive glances and flirtatious overtures. Sapient, a marketing/consulting firm that offers business, marketing, and technology services, will be incorporated into Publicis.Sapient, a software platform Continue reading >>>

Margie Kern, Sotheby’s International Realty’s lead broker in Newton, MA and a principal of Newton residential real estate company, Karp, Liberman Kern Sotheby’s International Realty, is named by BOSTON TOP 20 as one of its top 20 performing real estate agents for September 2014. According to Ms. Kern “I don’t forget for one minute that my success is due to my happy and satisfied clients as well as the hard working professionals that make up Team Kern. To all of them I just want to say “Thank You”. I think that all of my clients would agree that I, along with all Continue reading >>>

CapeBuilt Development LLC has appointed Renee Hansen operations manager. This and more in today's Around the Region. A summary of recent transactions and personnel news within Greater Boston's real estate community.CapeBuilt Development LLC has appointed Renee Hansen operations manager. Hansen oversees the sales team and coordinates Continue reading >>>

A storm that brought Massachusetts its first snow of the season is beginning to wind down, forecasters said. The storm came with strong winds and rain, causing power outages and coastal flooding.“It’s a classic nor’easter,” said Bill Simpson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. Continue reading below By mid-morning, Greater Boston was seeing some snow, which continued into the early afternoon before turning into rain, and clearing out.In southeastern Massachusetts, snow had been falling steadily. Beverly and Hyannis were still experiencing Continue reading >>>

Sunday, November 2, 2014, 3:00am By David Bates Special To Banker Tradesman An advertisement to rent a Boston condominium for a vacation rental never shows photos of the front of the building: it’s a mystery. The precise location of the building also is undisclosed: it’s an enigma. Who owns the condo is a riddle. A valid subscription is required to read the article or use the tool you've Continue reading >>>

A weekend storm that started Saturday morning promised a “one-two punch” expected to last through Sunday afternoon, according to Bill Simpson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.The storm will be “a slow build from here,” Simpson said Saturday morning. Continue reading below North and northwesterly winds and accompanying rain gradually increased Saturday, peaking late in the evening before a lull was expected to lead into another leg of the storm.With the temperature dropping overnight, a dusting of snow was likely in some areas across the state, Continue reading >>>

Swissnex Boston is a diverse team of eight relentless networkers devoted to connecting Switzerland and North America in science, education, art, and innovation. We opened our doors in Cambridge in September 2000. It was the world’s first swissnex. Greater Boston has been a cluster for research and innovation for decades, so we are located in the heart of the innovation area, between Harvard University and MIT. Every year we have 20 Swiss startups getting trained in colleges here on how Americans do business. We work closely with Babson College focusing on entrepreneurship. Continue Continue reading >>>

Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Charlie Baker stand together at a Greater Boston Interfaith Organization candidates forum at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Boston during the last weeks of their campaign. (Michael Dwyer/AP) The two front-runners in the race for governor of Massachusetts — Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Charlie Baker — made a final pitch to voters this weekend ahead of the Nov. 4 election. And, for both candidates, their closing arguments relied on the charisma and blessings of two politicians with direct experience in this job. Democratic Gov. Deval Continue reading >>>

SUNDAY Michael M. Greenburg (“The Court-Martial of Paul Revere”) reads at 1 p.m. at Tatnuck Bookseller, 18 Lyman St., Westborough ... Ann Hood (“An Italian Wife”) reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord ... Anjali Mitter Duva (“Faint Promise of Rain”) reads at 3 p.m. at Book Ends, 559 Main St., Winchester ... Hiawatha Bray (“You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves”) reads at 4 p.m. at the Paul Pratt Memorial Library, 35 Ripley Rd., Cohasset MONDAY Frank Warren (“The World of PostSecret”) Continue reading >>>