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		<title>Boston Finance &#8211; National Mega Projects Post Big Dig</title>
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Financial Impact &#8211; Entering the Superproject Void

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		<title>Boston Job Market &#8211; Don Pinkerton&#8217;s Story &amp; Success!</title>
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Aquarium volunteer lands at Revere High

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::BFG:: Profiles:
The Boston Business Alliance
Vision &#8211; www.bostonbusinessalliance.com

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		<title>Boston Financial &#8211; Budgeting is BACK!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These budget-tracking websites are becoming so popular that banks are now purchasing the software for their online customers so they can preserve crucial banking relationships. Budgeting software “is the future of online banking,’’ said Peter Glyman, a founder of Geezio, which sells the software to banks and credit unions.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Finance &#8211; Sports &#8211; Mo Vaughn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, Omni had better luck, buying its first Manhattan properties—two Section 8 buildings in Harlem with 53 units—for $5.5 million. Now, as a number of big, financially troubled properties, including Lawrence Gluck's 1,230-unit Riverton in Harlem, make their way through foreclosure, they are weighing a bid. Even Manhattan's vast middle-income oasis Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village looms as a potential target.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Finance &#8211; Online Trends &#8211; Local Search</title>
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Consumers Head Online for Local Business Information
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Super Bowl 2010 commercials featured (again) on YouTube AdBlitz

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		<title>Boston Financial News &#8211; Several Hyatt Boston Hotels are Embarrassed by Thoughtless Firings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hyatt Hotels Corp., responding to public outcry, political pressure, and threatened boycotts, yesterday offered the 98 housekeepers it fired last month new jobs at their old wages, a move that was met with mixed reaction by those who protested the firings.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Financial News &#8211; The Women Who Control the Cash Flow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now US Banker magazine is finding some bright spots in its annual “25 Most Powerful Women in Banking” issue. Calpers, the giant California pension fund, hired the first female CEO, Anne Stausboll, in its 77 year-history, while Bank of America is said to be grooming Sallie Krawchek, who was recently hired as head of the bank’s Global Wealth and Investment Management unit, as a possible successor to CEO Ken Lewis.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Finance News &#8211; Google Does Something New &amp; Exciting AGAIN</title>
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Google Unveils Fast Flip and Startups Take a Gamble
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		<title>Boston Financial News &#8211; Walmart&#8217;s Project Impact &#8211; The Juggernaut Rolls on and Over the Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walmart loves to shock and awe. City-size stores, absurdly low prices ($8 jeans!) and everything from milk to Matchbox toys on its shelves. And with the recession forcing legions of stores into bankruptcy, the world's largest retailer now apparently wants to take out the remaining survivors.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Financial &#8211; Such a Deal&#8230; Cheap Office Space Downtown! Smart&#8230;</title>
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Freelancers bag cheap office space 

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		<title>Boston Financial Politics &#8211; Christy Mihos Republican Millions =&#8217;s Early Advantage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Morris said Mihos’s candidacy will resonate with voters because he fought against cost escalation in the Big Dig project while a member of the Massachusetts Turnpike board of directors. The consultant also said Mihos knows how to cut government spending but won’t be afraid to spend his own money promoting his candidacy — perhaps as early as this fall.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Financial News &#8211; BioPharma Acquisitions HOT &#8211; BioPharma Giants &#8211; The Motley Fool Speaks!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These drugmakers' cash has to go somewhere, either through acquisitions, share buybacks, dividend payments, or paying down debt. Some of these options don't make very much sense right now; with interest rates at historical lows, for example, now's not the time for big pharma to pare down their debt levels. In addition, some drugmakers park a good portion of their cash outside the U.S. for tax reasons, making foreign biopharma acquisitions more attractive.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Finance News &#8211; Automotive &#8211; Americans Kicking the Tires Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But the site drew so much traffic that GM began inviting Dr. Dennis to Volt-related events and offering him exclusive interviews with its top executives. Advertisers began paying him for space on the site. And upon completing his daily duties, including treating victims of stroke, Dr. Dennis began making daily posts to the site. Last week, when GM Chief Executive Fritz Henderson announced that the Volt would travel 230 miles per gallon of gasoline in city driving, Dr. Dennis flew in for the press conference. “This Web site has just added a whole new dimension to my life,” he says.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Finance &#8211; National Health Care &#8211; Less Likely Without Teddy</title>
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Kennedy Death Cuts Broad Health Bill Odds, Hatch Says
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		<title>Boston Financial News &#8211; Credit Card Security &#8211; Credit Card Networks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON (Reuters) - Fresh details of large-scale cyber attacks against data processor Heartland Payment Systems Inc and supermarket chain Hannaford Brothers show the challenges facing the efforts of the U.S. credit-card industry to upgrade security measures.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Politics &#8211; Succession Debate &#8220;Who Replaces Kennedy?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON — Under Massachusetts law, voters will choose the successor to Sen. Kennedy in a special election in January. But that’s too long to wait for many Democrats, because Massachusetts would be without what could be a crucial vote as the U.S. Senate debates health insurance reform, Kennedy’s lifelong goal.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Finance News &#8211; South Shore Popping Social Media for More Business!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the newly-opened Abby Park restaurant in Milton prepared to add lunch service this week, it announced the news on its Twitter page. The restaurant just opened this month and already has 149 people following its “tweets,” the 140-character messages that are the standard mode of communication on Twitter.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Financial Guide News &#8211; Ted Kennedy dead at 77</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last of the Kennedys who fascinated the nation with their ambition, style, idealism, tragedies — and sometimes sheer recklessness — Edward Moore Kennedy died late Tuesday night at 77. A black shroud and vase of white roses sat Wednesday on his Senate desk, which John Kennedy had used before him.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Financial News &#8211; National Consumer Confidence Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A key measure of consumer confidence jumped much more than predicted in August, as the job market outlook and business expectations improved, said a report released Tuesday.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Finance News &#8211; Automotive &#8211; Final Cash for Clunkers Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DeKeyser said she knew she had to get the rebate this weekend. Without it, she wouldn't have bought her new car.

"I would have waited," she said. "Basically, I would have driven the other vehicle until it died."]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Financial &#8211; MBTA Mega Projects &#8211; Dream On Greater Boston&#8230; No Way&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Green Line expansion would top a sensible list of major improvements, not least because it extends rapid transit through underserved but densely populated areas of Somerville and Medford. And a version of the Urban Ring would complement the current transit system, which consists mainly of spokes radiating from downtown - but that project must be scrutinized more closely for affordability.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Financial &#8211; Boston Based Swiss Bank Snitch Gives up the Rich and Famous Off Shore $Cash$</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But the I.R.S. commissioner, Doug Schulman, said the agreement with UBS was a “major step forward” in the government’s efforts to pierce bank secrecy, and he warned that “wealthy Americans who have hidden their money offshore will find themselves in a jam.”]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday&#8217;s Boston Financial FUN! &#8211; 12 Most Annoying Facebookers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chronic Inviter. "Support my cause. Sign my petition. Play Mafia Wars with me. Which 'Star Trek' character are you? Here are the 'Top 5 cars I have personally owned.' Here are '25 Things About Me.' Here's a drink. What drink are you? We're related! I took the 'What President Are You?' quiz and found out I'm Millard Fillmore! What president are you?"]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Advertising News &#8211; Ahhhhh The Good Old Days &#8211; TV Glut =&#8217;s Less Ad $$$&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For veteran ad men nostalgic about the good old days when it was easier to get the attention of consumers and cocktails were thrown back at the office to celebrate a new business win, there’s always “Mad Men.”]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Financial News &#8211; Bond Portfolios and Retirement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- When it comes to investing, most retired Americans have it backwards. Instead of investing in bonds -- things that provide a return on capital, those seeking retirement-income security tend to invest in things that provide a guaranteed return of capital. Doing so could lower one's standard of living, especially when short-term interest rates fall.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Financial &#8211; JetBlue &amp; Southwest Faceoff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, JetBlue and Southwest catered to customers in the same way — with cheap fares and good customer service — but avoided much head-to-head competition in major markets. These days, they are trying to distinguish themselves as they ramp-up competition in places like New York, Washington, Baltimore — and starting this weekend, Boston.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Finance News &#8211; Investments &#8211; Cleantech Forum Boston</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first cleantech investment boom (2001-2008) was driven by rapid growth and experimentation. A second cleantech investment boom is being driven by a new emphasis on capital efficiency, and engaging governments—which, combined, are now the single largest investor in cleantech.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Financial &#8211; Top 10 Stimulus Spending &#8211; Massachusetts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That percentage of spending puts Massachusetts seventh among states in the rate of putting stimulus funds into the economy, Executive Office of Administration and Finance officials said Thursday. By the end of the life of the stimulus in fiscal 2011, the state expects to receive $9.22 billion for spending out of $514 billion doled out nationally, as well as $4.28 billion in tax benefits, compared to $272.52 billion nationally.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Financial &#8211; Cash For Clunkers National Impact &#8211; Camaro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing to look at Ford vehicles, the new F-250 full-size pick-up, which saw a severe drop in sales last July due to record-high $4 per gallon gas, also saw a significant year-over-year increase in consumer activity, with views increasing 87%. Finally, Kia saw one of the largest increases in views among brands as a whole, as consumer activity around vehicles such as the newly-introduced Soul crossover and the new Forte compact sedan helped move the brand to its first-ever appearance on the top 10 Most Viewed Manufacturers list.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Startups News &#8211; Finance Strategies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Consider the audience. No financing is “typical” or “standard,” and today, more than ever, investment documents must fit investor objectives. If valuation is stalling discussions, would the investor take convertible debt with a right to participate in future equity rounds at a discount?]]></description>
		<link>http://bostonfinancialguide.com/startups-finance-strategies.html</link>
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		<title>Boston Finance News &#8211; Downsizing Big Banks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Luckily, America hasn't yet been confronted with a financial crisis "fix" that exceeds its capacity to borrow. But to ensure that doesn't happen in the future, institutions need to be appropriately sized so that they aren't crucial enough to create the hope for financial help when times get tough.]]></description>
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		<title>Global Financial News &#8211; International Monetary Fund</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was one consensus – without the US economy recovering, it would be difficult to see a global recovery, but probably, the Chinese economy may be the first to recover.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Finance News &#8211; Latino Accounting &amp; Finance Convention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the nation’s first Latino Supreme Court justice is set to be sworn in today, Boston will welcome its first-ever convention of Latino professionals.]]></description>
		<link>http://bostonfinancialguide.com/latino-accounting-finance-convention.html</link>
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		<title>Boston Financial Developement &#8211; Rose Kennedy Greenway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The news came a day after city and state officials raised financial concerns about the only two proposals submitted for a market in an adjacent building known as the parcel 7 garage. City officials want to use that building and the land discussed yesterday, known as parcel 9, to create an expansive public area for local growers for food sellers.]]></description>
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		<title>Food, Finance &amp; Boston Restaurants &#8211; Hell&#8217;s Kitchen Roasts Boston Chefs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now he wants to go mano-a-mano with Ramsay outside the kitchen. “Put all the spatulas and spoons aside,” Cordio, 45, said. “I just want a cage match.”]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Globe &#8211; Will You Pay for Globe Website?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[News of the Globe’s intention to charge for Boston.com came a day after News Corp. [NWS] Chairman Rupert Murdoch announced his company would start charging for content at all of its news Web sites, including the New York Post, The Times of London and The Sun, a popular British tabloid. News Corp. already charges for some access to The Wall Street Journal’s Web site.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Financial &#8211; Young investors wary of jumping into market lows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But many in their 20s and early 30s are not buying rosy projections, due to immediate financial pressures and exposure to the longest recession since the 1930s Great Depression.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Financial &#8211; National Health &amp; Mob Rule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Booed, jeered and occasionally cheered in a raucous session with the public, a Democratic senator said Monday that other lawmakers can expect the same as they face voters on the divisive issue of overhauling health care.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Financial &#8211; Barney Frank Comments tied to GE Stock Rise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are ways to allow companies like GE to stay intact and have their finance arms regulated more closely, Frank said. The structure didn’t cause the financial crisis, and it shouldn’t be an obstacle to regulation, Frank said.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Financial &#8211; Panjiva Esoteric Investment Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former MIT computer scientist Jim Psota hopes that Panjiva can attract more gatherers of esoteric data to help serve traders.]]></description>
		<link>http://bostonfinancialguide.com/panjiva-investment-data.html</link>
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		<title>Boston Financial &#8211; Awesome Foundation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“It’s kind of the broken windows theory, in reverse,” said trustee and BetaHouse co-founder Jon Pierce, referring to the social theory that minor crimes like vandalism or illegal dumping, unchecked, can lead to serious crime. “If you flip that on its head you can say here’s all this great stuff going on, and we’re going to showcase it and encourage it.”]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Clunkers &#8211; Fed is a Wreck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[General Motors Co. spokesman Greg Martin said Thursday the automaker hopes "there's a will and way to keep the CARS program going a little bit longer."]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Finance &amp; Fear Mongering &#8211; George Regan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“He’s achieved a certain status in Boston through fear-mongering, basically, and somebody needs to stand up to him and call him what he is. He’s a bully,” he said.]]></description>
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		<title>Finance &#8211; Yahoo &amp; Microsoft &#8211; Deal Done?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 10-year deal announced Wednesday gives Microsoft access to the Internet's second-largest search engine audience, adding a potentially potent weapon to the software maker's Internet arsenal as it girds for an all-out assault against online search and advertising leader Google Inc.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Irish News &#8211; Sgt. James Crowley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shearer said he overheard the president apologize to Crowley and ask if there was anything he could do. Two days earlier, Obama had suggested Cambridge police had “acted stupidly” by charging Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. with disorderly conduct.]]></description>
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		<title>Financial News &#8211; Sales Tax Mass Suicide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Herb Chambers, who owns 46 car dealerships in Massachusetts and Rhode Island — and seems to be the only dealer opening new locations this summer — said sales have picked up month after month this year.]]></description>
		<link>http://bostonfinancialguide.com/sales-tax-mass-suicide.html</link>
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		<title>GOOGLE Financial &#8211; Microsoft under Pressure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have been here before. In 1995 the founders of a firm called Netscape had the same idea. If the web was going to be the key application, they reasoned, surely the browser could effectively become the operating system. They were unwise enough to say this in the hearing of Bill Gates, who realised instantly it posed a serious threat to Microsoft's core product. At that moment, Netscape's fate was sealed: careless talk costs companies.]]></description>
		<link>http://bostonfinancialguide.com/google-microsoft.html</link>
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		<title>Local Finance &#8211; Harvard Endowment Decline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Drew Gilpin Faust started as Harvard's president when the university's prosperity seemed limitless. With its ballooning wealth, Harvard planned almost frenzied growth, from a building boom into Boston to vast increases in student financial aid.]]></description>
		<link>http://bostonfinancialguide.com/harvard-endowment.html</link>
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