Boots and bats: LL Bean footwear honors champ Sox

FREEPORT, Maine — L.L. Bean is painting its Bootmobile red in honor of the Red Sox' World Series championship and providing custom-made red hunting boots to each member of the team and staff. The company will unveil the red Bootmobile during the duck...

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Ariad shares dive as drug sale halted

Ariad Pharmaceuticals' stock plunged yesterday on news that the Cambridge company was suspending sales of its leukemia drug Iclusig because of concerns that patients taking it could suffer life-threatening blood clots. Shares dropped more than 44 percent...

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Obama pitches the US to foreign investors

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is casting himself as America's business pitchman. Facing a sluggish economy, Obama on Thursday announced an expanded government role to draw foreign companies to the United States, arguing that the American workforce,...

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World Series rating up 17 percent over 2012

NEW YORK — The World Series television rating on Fox was up 17 percent over last year but was the lowest for a matchup that went at least six games. Boston's 4-2 Series win over St. Louis averaged an 8.9 rating, 15 share and 14.9 million viewers, Nielsen...

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FAA OKs electronic devices during takeoff

Passengers soon will be able to keep reading their ebooks and watching movies on planes during takeoffs and landings after the Federal Aviation Administration yesterday issued new guidelines for use of electronic devices. "The FAA has determined that...

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Obama calls in the geek squad

The Obama administration is turning to an emergency Silicon Valley geek squad to bail out its beleaguered Healthcare.gov website and fix the botched rollout of its signature health insurance program. "They're under the gun time-wise to get this fixed,"...

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Here’s why homes don’t sell

If your house isn't selling, don't despair — try jazzing it up online. Inventory in the Metro Boston region is down 
62 percent from a year ago while prices are up 9 percent, so there's hope. But buyers are first turning to real estate websites before...

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The New York Times loses $24.2M after sale of Globe

The New York Times reported a $24.2 million third-quarter loss yesterday, thanks in part to a costly write-down following the sale of The Boston Globe to Red Sox owner John Henry. The Times announced a $34.3 million write-down related to the sale of...

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Asia stocks muted on prospect Fed to trim stimulus

MUMBAI, India — Asian stocks markets were muted Friday as investors continued to fret that the U.S. Federal Reserve bank will begin cutting its stimulus as soon as January. Japan's Nikkei 225, the regional heavyweight, fell 1.2 percent to 14,155.81,...

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Pelosi calls Obamacare website woes ‘incidental’

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi today called the Obamacare website malfunctions "incidental" in the big picture and predicted that they would have no effect on the mid-term elections next year. "The glitches technologically are incidental to the...

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