As the leaders crafting Boston’s bid for the 2024 Olympic Games mull how the area’s colleges and universities can contribute, they should think beyond stadiums, swimming pools, and dorms and focus on academia’s most valuable resource: ideas. If we’re seeking innovative solutions to the challenges of hosting the Olympics, there’s no better place to look than to our celebrated cluster of academic expertise, innovation, and brain power. Continue reading below Our colleges and universities, after all, are our international calling card. What other area can claim a constellation of Continue reading >>>

Berger will focus on developing new business in the small-to-medium business (SMB) sector in the greater Boston metro area. Worcester, MA (PRWEB) August 20, 2014 Barry Communications has announced the appointment of Evan J. Berger as the company’s new Business Development Manager. Berger comes to the regional voice and data technology and services provider from Boston-based data center services company Windstream Communications, where he served as a major account executive. Prior to that, Berger was employed at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Andover, MA where he was a senior account executive Continue reading >>>

BOSTON — Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley picked up the endorsement of Taunton Mayor Tom Hoye on Tuesday. Hoye is the seventh big city mayor to endorse Coakley in her bid for for the corner office. "Martha Coakley has been a champion for working families inTaunton and is an effective manager who knows how to partner with cities and towns to solve our toughest challenges," said Hoye in a statement. Hoye is the second South Coast mayor to endorse Coakley. Fall River Mayor Will Flanagan endorsed Coakley in June. Boston Magazine's David Bernstein notes Continue reading >>>

Gorman Richardson Lewis Architects in Hopkinton hired Bradley Newsome as project manager, building envelope sciences division. This and more in today's Around the Region. A summary of recent transactions and personnel news within Greater Boston’s real estate community. Danvers High School has beem designated Continue reading >>>

Broadcasters are trying, once and for all, to make sure Aereo doesn’t get renewed for a second season. Aereo, which is headquartered in New York and has its largest office in Boston, had previously offered its TV streaming service in Greater Boston and 10 other US markets. In the wake of Aereo’s recent Supreme Court defeat, Brian Fung reports for the Washington Post that the startup is seeking to stay alive by using a backup legal argument. However, Fung writes that the broadcasters “are determined to shut that effort down before it even gets started.” From the report: Court documents Continue reading >>>

Buses chug through a complex intersection in downtown Chelsea; commuters pour out of Central Square’s T stop in Cambridge; in Quincy, college students and others dart to and from a busy MBTA terminal. The places in Massachusetts where pedestrians are most often injured by motor vehicles have a few things in common, specialists and advocates say: more people and more cars, of course, but also the very thing that makes Greater Boston so pedestrian-friendly — high-use public transportation stops. Continue reading below “We see transit stops as being big pedestrian attractors,” said Continue reading >>>

Dr. Gary Gottlieb of Partners HealthCare gave the keynote address at the Boston Business Journal's Corporate Citizenship Summit. Jessica Bartlett Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email  |  Twitter Continue reading >>>

Let the reservations begin. Chefs at 173 local restaurants are cooking up fixed-price menus for the second serving of Dine Out Boston. The twice-yearly event, formerly known as Restaurant Week, begins Sunday. Continue reading below The Greater Boston Convention Visitors Bureau threw out the old title and restructured the rules of the promotion earlier this year in response to a decline in restaurant participation and mounting complaints. Upscale establishments said Restaurant Week’s one-price-fits-all approach made it difficult to offer signature dishes without losing money, while Continue reading >>>

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2,500 GAA players will converge on Boston in two weeks time when the North American Gaelic Games Finals are held over Labor Day Weekend in the US. The Irish Cultural Center (ICC) in Canton, Massachusetts is part of the Greater Boston area, and will be the venue for the annual feast of hurling, camogie and Gaelic footballing activity from August 29th – 31st. The ICC has five full size fields at its disposal, and as much as 120 teams will play off in over 120 matches . All the titles will have been decided in the respective grades Continue reading >>>