Thursday, November 19, 2009 Dunkin’ has the antidote for Thanksgiving naps
Dunkin' Donuts customer research has turned up some disturbing news: On Thanksgiving Day, napping is almost as common as pumpkin pie and high school football games. That's the headline from a survey commissioned by the Canton-based coffee-and-baked-goods chain, which concluded... Friendly's ice cream with your Bruegger's bagel?
Don't be surprised to see a retail operation offering Friendly's Ice Cream menu items along with Bruegger's Bagels at the same airport location some day. Friendly's, which is based in Wilbraham, and Brueggers, which is headquartered in Vermont, share a... Anika gets European approval on wrinkle product
Associated Press BEDFORD - Skin therapy company Anika Therapeutics Inc. said it received European approval to market its wrinkle treatment device Elevess Light. The company plans to launch the product in Europe in early 2010. The device is not yet... Feds report fewer workplace deaths in New England
Associated Press A federal agency says 136 people died in New England from work-related injuries last year, 27 fewer than in the previous year and the lowest number since it began compiling the statistics in 1992. The 2008 preliminary figures... Junior Achievement USA salutes MassMutual
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. said it has been named a Top 10 volunteer resource provider by Junior Achievement USA. MassMutual is a mutual life insurance company headquartered in Springfield. According to the website for Junior Achievement Worldwide, the organization... Monster joins initiative that promotes Mass. economy
Governor Deval L. Patrick said that Monster.com, a career and recruitment website with operations in Maynard, has become the latest organization to join with the statewide public-private marketing campaign: "Massachusetts: It?s All Here." "Massachusetts job seekers will now be able... First Marblehead bank unit sells education loans
Associated Press First Marblehead Corp., which packages students loans for sale to investors, said that a bank subsidiary that it's considering selling has completed the sale of its remaining portfolio of private education loans. Union Federal Savings Bank sold the... Admonish, philanderer got big hits at online dictionary
When it comes to your popular action verbs, "admonish" got a good workout, thanks to an outburst by a congressman during a speech by President Obama. The folks at Springfield-based Merriam-Webster Inc. measure the popularity of words by checking out... Mass. unemployment falls to 8.9 percent
By Robert Gavin, Globe Staff The Massachusetts unemployment rate fell last month for the first time in more than two years, plunging nearly a half-percentage point as employers trimmed payrolls by just 900 jobs, the state Executive Office of Labor... Brigham's restaurants look to bankruptcy protection
The head of a Maryland company that owns 13 Brigham's restaurants said that those restaurants will seek to file for bankruptcy protection. Luke T. Cooper of Deal Metrics LLC, the Maryland company that bought Brigham's restaurants last year, said that... Akamai helps deliver Epix movies in HD
Akamai Technologies Inc. said that Epix, the premium entertainment service from Viacom, Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate, and MGM, has chosen Akamai as the company?s launch provider to deliver and manage its full length High Definition (HD) movies. Cambridge-based Akamai specializes in... American Superconductor sees bigger profit in '10
Associated Press DEVENS - American Superconductor Corp. reaffirmed its full-year outlook and said it expects its profit to double next fiscal year. The earnings forecast for fiscal 2010 is ahead of Wall Street expectations. American Superconductor, which makes equipment for... Oct. foreclosures in Mass. jump from Sept.
Foreclosures in Massachusetts rose nearly 30 percent in October from the previous month, but petitions to foreclose, the first step in the state's foreclosure process, were 9 percent below September's total, the Warren Group said. On a year-to-year basis, there... Today in Globe Business
For stimulus funds, unlikely destinations There?s $1.5 million to fix a remote lighthouse on uninhabited Monomoy Island, off Cape Cod. Security measures to protect the Spirit of Boston party cruise ship from terrorist attacks will cost about $123,000. And the... Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Citi CEO open to credit card rate cap; says bank on upswing
By Beth Healy, Globe Staff Citigroup Chief Executive Vikram Pandit indicated the banking giant would support a cap on credit card interest rates for new accounts, if lawmakers in Washington DC revive an effort to reign in the high rates... Black Falcon Cruise Terminal is getting an upgrade
By Katie Johnston Chase, Globe Staff Passengers at the Black Falcon Cruise Terminal in South Boston will be waiting for their ships to come in at a new $8 million check-in area by the end of next year, a renovation... Holiday hits could include Snuggies, Zhu Zhu pets
(Graphic provided by Panjiva) Snuggies, a new kind of blanket extolled by cable TV commercials, and the Zhu Zhu Pet, an interactive hamster toy, could be big holiday hits this year, according to Panjiva, a firm that uses technologies... | 
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