App will put you in your spot

Parking in the Hub is getting easier, thanks to a new crop of apps and services designed to put your car in a spot without the hassle or stress of searching for one. The newest of these apps is SpotHero, which is now live in Boston. Touting itself as...

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MIT’s Sloan conference gets competitive

The word for Day 2 of MIT's Sloan Sports Analytics Conference was competition. For eight years, the conference has united professional sports teams, sports industry organizations and cutting-edge academics, all in the pursuit of appreciating and understanding...

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Long waits frustrate callers to health exchanges

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — For those trying to enroll through online health exchanges, help has long been advertised as just a phone call away. Yet the challenge in some states has been trying to get a call through at all, never mind the multiple transfers once...

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Colored lobster rope could be safer for whales

ROCKPORT, Maine — Preventing endangered northern right whales from becoming entangled in lobster gear could be as simple as changing the color of rope, a whale researcher says. If the whales can see the fishing gear more clearly, then they are better...

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Sports continues to move forward at MIT conference

For the eighth straight year, the' most forward-thinking minds in sports flocked to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference to discuss and share big ideas with professors, professionals, and peers. Academics, league and team executives, analysts, bloggers...

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Berkshire Hathaway's 4Q profit up 10 percent

OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett's company said Saturday that fourth-quarter earnings rose 10 percent to nearly $5 billion as its insurance, rail and energy businesses generated major gains in the improving economy. Berkshire Hathaway's insurance companies,...

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Buffett upbeat about future despite trailing S&P

OMAHA, Neb. — Billionaire Warren Buffett is confident that Berkshire Hathaway will be a mainstay of the U.S. economy for the next 100 years, regardless of whether it sometimes underperforms bull market runs, like it did last year. In his annual letter...

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A strong February wipes out S&P 500's January loss

NEW YORK — After two months of trading, the stock market is back where it started. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 4.3 percent in February, the biggest gain since October 2013, helped by strong corporate earnings and a Federal Reserve that...

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Volvo needs 20 minutes of highway driving to warm up

I have an issue with my car warming up slowly when the temperature gets down around 0 degrees F. The car is a 2011 S40 Volvo with the T5 engine. The dealer confirmed that the issue I describe is happening but say they checked another 2011 S40 they had...

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Area hospitals get healthier

The sustainability trend is finally coming to the hospital industry in a big way. Dozens of Massachusetts hospitals — including six in just the past month — have signed on to a national initiative to get "healthier" by improving their food options,...

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