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Meet the class of 2017’s MVP entrepreneurs
How many people in your college class created a product, got it into 1,000 retailers, and generated more than half a million bucks in revenue before graduation day? Johnny Fayad and Ali Kothari of Northeastern University also ran a successful campaign on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, raising $44,000 from backers excited to get their hands […]
Unusual stock move shakes up cyber community
An investment firm’s use of medical device security research has alarmed many within the cybersecurity and healthcare fields, and excited others. Muddy Waters Capital announced on Thursday that it had sold stock in the medical technology firm St. Jude Medical based on vulnerabilities in MedSec’s cybersecurity. Cardiac devices make up nearly 50 percent of St. Jude’s […]
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Amazon wants you to celebrate its birthday by shopping
The company’s growth from its start as an online bookseller has been dramatic, said Christo Wilson, who teaches computer science at Northeastern University. Wilson says the company revolutionized computer services beyond retail. “They basically invented cloud computin,” he says. It might seem ironic that the company is marking its birthday with deep discounts aimed at […]
How I got a free marketing consultation from 4 brilliant young students
There’s no shortage of companies eager to abet the inbound marketing efforts of growing businesses like Tiny Tags, which grossed $200,000 last year. But for the cost-conscious Clayton, a free or do-it-yourself method is always the first option. So she held off on a professional consultation, and set her mind on finding an alternative solution. […]
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Microsoft makes office free on mobiles
All aboard, Microsoft is jumping on the freemium bandwagon. In the past their product, Office 365,was subscription-only if you wanted to do anything other than read your documents on your mobile device. Now the updated free Microsoft app will allow you to change, or write new Office documents on your iPhone or iPad. The version for Android tablets […]
The tenuous science of facial recognition
The eyes may be windows into the soul, but can we really garner that much information from staring into someone’s face? Research suggests maybe not. A whole business has developed out of training computers to recognize our facial expressions, with companies like Emotient and Affectiva selling facial recognition software that supposedly reveals how focus groups […]
Boston Globe opens its website paywall while GateHouse puts some up for first time
This has been a busy week of website news for the state’s two biggest news organizations: The Boston Globe is opening up the wall around its site, while GateHouse Media is putting up paywalls on some of its local sites for the first time. The shift at the Globe to what’s known as a metered […]
Marketplace
Icahn wants eBay to set PayPal free
A high-profile activist investor’s latest use of the megaphone is to call for an iconic tech firm to split up. Carl Icahn wants eBay to spin off PayPal, separating the online auction site from the digital payment service. eBay’s CEO wants to hang onto PayPal. He says keeping it provides that enduring corporate buzzword: synergy. […]
ABC News
Whitey Bulger Case Hit Man Was Not a Classic Serial Killer
“A serial killer typically uses sex as a vehicle for tempting to gain a sense of power and dominance and control,” said Jack Levin, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston and a co-author of the 2008 book, “Extreme Killing.” “In most cases, it includes torture,” he said. “Martorano was right in court when he […]
Boston Magazine
Boston Ranked Healthiest Metro Area In U.S.
We’ve reported a lot on Boston’s health rankings. We were ranked the second fittest city in the U.S. by Forbes and Massachusetts was ranked the second fittest state by the same publication. United Health Foundation ranked Mass. fourth in the nation for overall health last year, and MapMyFitness ranked Mass. the second fittest state in the country last year. And we have the second lowest obesity rate in the nation […]
MSN
Get freebies by complaining
One evening Nicole Canfora Lupo sliced open her finger on a chipped area under a jar lid. After sopping up the blood, she blogged humorously about the misadventure, saying she’d contact the manufacturer.