Former Treasurer Tim Cahill pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning in Superior Court to four public corruption charges leveled against him earlier this week by Attorney General Martha Coakley and his trial date was set for Sept. 24.  Cahill is accused with two aides in connection with the launch a $1.5 million Lottery ad campaign in September 2010 that investigators say were intended to boost his campaign for governor.   Cahill has indicated the ads were intended to counter Republican Governors Association ads questioning his management of the Lottery and to maximize agency profits, which Continue reading >>>

Greater Boston is a coffee-mad area, with chain and local coffee shops seemingly on every corner. There are plenty of great locally owned choices in each city and town, but to measure the relative amount of coffee in our blood streams, Patch looked at the area's two biggest players: Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks. It’s not surprising Dunkin Donuts controls more locations in the 18 communities surveyed, but did you know they outpace Starbucks by an almost 3:1 ratio? There are 115 Dunks in the surveyed region compared to 43 Starbucks. Taken together, that’s 158 chain locations in 18 communities. Continue reading >>>

Home / Citybiznews / General Business / We Recommend... By Jonathan CrandallThe February jobs numbers reflected an optimism that is shared by Boston-area entrepreneurs.Recently, Continue reading >>>

WGBH announced last week that Rich Siden, of Ashland, has joined the station as an account manager for the Local Corporate Sponsorship team. Siden brings more than 27 years of sales and marketing experience on television and radio to his new role at WGBH. He provides a wide-range of expertise for developing new business and maintaining the needs of current clients. In his previous positions, Siden achieved success in creating fully integrated, multi-platform sales and marketing solutions to establish brand positions for his clients. “Rich brings a wealth of experience to our local sponsorship Continue reading >>>

The head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s trailblazing Media Laboratory yesterday said he encourages its faculty and students to “try something that works in practice, but not in theory.” “The whole point ... is learning through construction, rather than instruction,” Joichi Ito told nearly 200 people at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. “You don’t get a Nobel Prize by doing what you’re told.” “Questioning authority doesn’t mean you have to be disrespectful to authority,” Ito added. “It means thinking for yourself.” The Continue reading >>>

by Jenn Abelson, Boston Globe Posted: Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 3:03PM EDT Wegmans Food Markets scouted properties in the South End and Fenway neighborhoods on Wednesday as possible locations for its first grocery store in Boston, according to several people briefed on the matter. Wegmans chief executive Danny Wegman confirmed he was “looking at a couple of sites’’ in the city that did not include Downtown Crossing or the South Boston Waterfront, but he would not identify the properties. “We believe we belong in Boston, not just in the suburbs,’’ Wegman told Continue reading >>>

The Boston-Cambridge area has much more expertise in technology and innovation than the West Coast, but needs to create a “critical mass” of angel investors and venture capitalists to continue to excel, the director of the MIT Media Lab said today. “If you bet on the right people, and you bet enough, you’ll get a hit,” said Joichi Ito, an early investor in Twitter, told nearly 200 people at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Ito said he encourages the Media Lab’s 26 faculty members and approximately 150 students to “try something that works in Continue reading >>>

Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 11:16am   The Greater Boston office market enjoyed a strong start to the year, according to a new quarterly research publication released this morning by Richards Barry Joyce Partners LLC (RBJP).According to the report by the Boston-based commercial real estate firm, the market posted a solid quarter to start the year, with overall vacancy dropping slightly to 15.3 percent. In the Continue reading >>>

Hotels continued to show improvement in February. Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor - Boston Business Journal Email Greater Boston hotels reported steadily improving operating results for February 2012, according to the latest survey from PKF Consulting. The 91 Continue reading >>>

Winslow Towson/for The Boston Globe Junior Andre Rolim is one of the elite middle-distance runners in the country. By Matt Goisman, Globe Correspondent Somerville High School’s outdoor track and field teams will begin their season Thursday afternoon against Everett at Dilboy Stadium. Both the boys’ and girls’ squads went undefeated and claimed Greater Boston League titles last spring, but key losses to both rosters might hurt their chances to repeat this year. “I think we just could be that one or two person short this season,” said girls’ coach Charlie O’Rourke. See our gallery Continue reading >>>