Golden age for Netflix, Amazon

The 72nd Golden Globe Awards may be a month away, but the winners and losers have already been selected. Winners: Amazon and Netflix. Losers: Cable companies. The fact that two online streaming services have received such resounding acclaim should...

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Fox News reporter dies of apparent suicide

Veteran Fox News correspondent Dominic Di-Natale, who recently reported on the riots in Ferguson, Mo., has been found dead of an apparent suicide. He was 43. Officials discovered Di-Natale's body Wednesday in Jefferson County, Co., where the international...

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House approves $1.1T bill financing government

WASHINGTON — Republicans have muscled a $1.1 trillion bill financing government agencies through the House after President Barack Obama phoned Democratic lawmakers and urged them to back the measure. The House approved the measure late Thursday by 219-206....

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Merger of Staples, Office Depot predicted

Activist investor Starboard Value's disclosure that it bought a 5.1 percent stake in Framingham's Staples Inc. and upped its Office Depot Inc. holding to 9.9 percent indicates the New York hedge fund will push for a merger of the two office supplies...

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Stocks rebound on Nov. retail sales, despite oil dip

Renewed optimism, thanks to increased retail sales, caused U.S. stocks to begin to rebound yesterday from a three-session loss streak, but waned as oil fell to a new, five-year low and efforts to block a spending bill in the House renewed worries of...

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Hearst buys 25% stake in Dreamworks Animation's Awesomenesstv for $81.25 million

Publishing company Hearst has acquired a 25% interest in AwesomenessTV, DreamWorks Animation's digital-focused media division, for $81.25 million, the companies announced Thursday. For Hearst, the deal will give it entree into the burgeoning world of...

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House approves $1.1T bill financing government

WASHINGTON — Swapping crisis for compromise, the House narrowly approved $1.1 trillion in government-wide spending Thursday night after President Barack Obama and Republicans joined forces to override Democratic complaints that the bill would also ease...

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AstraZeneca to shut Westboro plant

The closure of a massive AstraZeneca drug manufacturing facility in Westboro next year is an outlier and doesn't signal trouble in the state's booming life sciences industry, one local industry watcher said. "That particular facility and the kind of...

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Hot Property: Penthouses become highly desirable

Penthouses have always had a cachet, but it's only in the last 10 years that Boston has gone vertical enough to create a lot of them. Buildings like the Ritz- Carlton Residences, the W, 45 Province St., the Mandarin Oriental and The Clarendon put the...

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Mass. company plans Delaware medical pot clinic

WILMINGTON, Del. — A Massachusetts company is planning to open a medical marijuana clinic in Delaware next month, though doing business in the state could be tricky. Boston-based Canna Care Doctors plans to open the clinic on Jan. 17 in an industrial...

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