iParty Corp. (NYSE Amex: IPT) today announced plans to open two new retail party stores in the Greater Boston Area. The first store will anchor an exciting new center in Waltham, Massachusetts, the Main Street Marketplace. The second store will open in the Westgate Market Place in Plaistow, New Hampshire, and will serve the Haverhill, Massachusetts market. Sal Perisano, iParty’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, stated, “We are extremely pleased to add these two locations to our family of full-line Continue reading >>>

BREW 2012 Is Scheduled for October 15 Through October 26 Boston Region Entrepreneurship Week (BREW) announced today the official start of the 2012 celebration of events that will provide programs and activities around entrepreneurship in Greater Boston and the surrounding communities. With the BREW celebration taking place during the weeks of October 15 - October 26, the BREW committee is currently asking for organizers of entrepreneurial events to register their event details online at http://www.brewboston.org. Events can include such things as educational workshops, Continue reading >>>

BOSTON, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/10/12 -- Boston Region Entrepreneurship Week (BREW) announced today the official start of the 2012 celebration of events that will provide programs and activities around entrepreneurship in Greater Boston and the surrounding communities. With the BREW celebration taking place during the weeks of October 15 - October 26, the BREW committee is currently asking for organizers of entrepreneurial events to register their event details online at http://www.brewboston.org. Events can include such things as educational workshops, networking Continue reading >>>

Single-digit vacancy rates in Boston is driving production of multifamily housing like this one in the Back Bay.  Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Greater Boston’s apartment market will remain in favor of landlords this year, Continue reading >>>

Despite a drop in the number of large conventions coming to Boston next year, hotel occupancy is expected to rise, a testament to the market’s healthy mix of tourists, business travelers, and convention-goers, according to the hospitality consultancy PKF Consulting USA. Average occupancy rates in Greater Boston are forecast to hit 72.4 percent this year and 72.9 percent in 2013, even as the number of conventions generating more than 2,000 hotel room nights decreases to 19 in 2012 from 24 this year. As a result, room nights generated by citywide conventions are projected to fall 33 percent. A Continue reading >>>

On June 16, on the eve of the Greek parliamentary elections, with the future of the European Union in doubt and a newly-elected Socialist president in France, French citizens in the U.S. and Canada voted to elect a candidate in a newly created constituency to represent them in the French National Assembly. They chose Corinne Narassiguin, a 37-year old member of the Socialist Party who has worked as a banker on Wall Street for twelve years. A few facts about the election: 27% of representatives to the newly elected French National Assembly are women. By way of comparison, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Continue reading >>>