Linking Art to Science and Commerce - Admired and respected for sure! Media Crush ( publishers of this site) had a great working experience with Tom Hadfield at the onset of the launch of AeroDesigns - which was Founded by Harvard professor David Edwards. Based in Cambridge MA, AeroDesigns, Inc. is pioneering air-based delivery systems to re-imagine the consumption of food, … [Read more...]
Bring your Appetite, Thirst and Dancing Shoes - The Seaport Hotel - Sunday March 24th- After a week that was supposed to bring us Spring and instead delivered us more snow and C O L D - We all deserve a break! This is it - mark the calendar for this Sunday March 24th! All of us here at Media Crush attended this event last year and it was truly one of the best " Tastes Of" we have been … [Read more...]
Mayer a Leader in Every Way - Right? Is Marissa Mayer ( FYI - pronounced Meyer like the Hot Dog not like the singer John) making all the right moves? Her thinking is to change the perception of female techies - Starting from the way they dress moving away from sweatshirt hoodies, flip flops and thick glasses to high end fashion - ummm isn't that thinking alone some sort of … [Read more...]
BY Janelle Nanos POSTED ON 8/18/2011 Groupon’s most recent financials aren’t looking so hot, which has economists wondering whether the company that started the daily deal deluge might be in trouble. Though the company’s been courted by Google and raised nearly a billion dollars in financing earlier this year, at no point in its existence has Groupon ever made a profit. So the company’s … [Read more...]
Exxon makes major oil discovery in Gulf By Andrew Restuccia - 06/08/11 02:24 PM ET Exxon Mobil said Wednesday it has discovered an estimated 700 million barrels of oil equivalent at a deepwater well off the Louisiana coast, a major find that a top House Republican argued should push the administration to speed up offshore permitting. "This is one of the largest discoveries in the Gulf … [Read more...]
John Keith: Borders DTX is Another Hole in The Ground The Borders in Downtown Crossing will close soon, victim of its parent company's bankruptcy. What should be done with the space? Borders Group, Inc. is in the process of liquidating its holdings, selling off the entire inventory in its 399 bookstores before going out of business forever. Here in Boston, its Back Bay … [Read more...]
July 12, 2011 No debt-limit deal? Your investments plummet Commentary: It probably won’t happen, but if it did ... By Robert Powell, MarketWatch BOSTON (MarketWatch ) — It’s no joke. The sky over the investment world and everything under it, including bonds, stocks, money markets, commodities, you name it, will fall unless lawmakers raise the $14.3 trillion Federal debt ceiling by … [Read more...]
Lately, financial education for kids and adults seems to be right up there with Mom and apple pie as a crowd-pleaser. Nearly everyone acknowledges that financial literacy is a worthy goal, and more than a dozen states require some form of personal-finance education in high schools. There's just one problem: It doesn't seem to be working. That was the sobering conclusion of a panel of … [Read more...]
But Who Is Watching Regulators? By GRETCHEN MORGENSON NOTHING succeeds like failure, as the saying goes. And nowhere is this dismal truth more evident than in our financial regulatory system, one year after the bankruptcy filing of Lehman Brothers. Even though calamitous lending practices laid waste to the nation’s economy, surprisingly little has changed about how the financial … [Read more...]
Google's hiring spree to be felt in Cambridge By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff The Cambridge office of search engine giant Google Inc. has grown to employ more than 300 people, and now it's making room for more. The company is recruiting local engineers, advertising managers, and administrative staff -- all part of a global hiring spree, the biggest in Google's history, with plans to … [Read more...]
