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Startup makes art collectors of apartment renters
By Marc Levy
Published: August 25, 2010
Turningart.com, a startup based in Central Square, could be the next Netflix, but its works of art aren’t cinema — they’re actual works of art.
Porter Square Galleria loses third large tenant in Jennifer Convertibles
By Marc Levy
Published: August 18, 2010
The Jennifer Convertibles furniture store in Porter Square is liquidating, leaving a third large vacancy in the Porter Square Galleria. Pizzeria Uno and Blockbuster left within the past year.
Closing of annex takes 6,000 more books from city shelves
By Marc Levy
Published: August 17, 2010
Window shopping is all you can do at The McIntyre & Moore Booksellers Annex. The space is close, taking another 6,000 used volumes off the streets in a city already losing 100,000 titles from the closing of Rodney’s in Central Square.
It’s $250 a seat to celebrate century with Harvard Square Business Association
By Marc Levy
Published: August 14, 2010
For those still mourning the old Harvard Square — the funky one alive with buskers and late-night rowdiness at The Tasty, the one before Abercrombie & Fitch and all the bank branches — the announcement of the Harvard Square Business Association’s 100th anniversary gala will seem a bitter epilogue.
Shrugging off iPad, maker of e-reader screens expands in Cambridge
By Marc Levy
Published: July 28, 2010
With Apple selling 3 million iPads in three months and makers of e-readers dropping out of competition, e-Ink might have cause to be worried. But the Cambridge-based maker of e-reader screens is expanding and hiring.
Greyhound can’t explain large fee added to bus ticket
By Marc Levy
Published: July 23, 2010
What does a $22 one-way Greyhound bus ticket cost? If you’re paying your own way and you guessed $22, you’re right. But if someone is paying for you, or if you’re paying for someone else, a $22 ticket costs $40.
RelayRides challenges Zipcar, marketing with teams on foot
By Marc Levy
Published: July 17, 2010
On the way down to all those red line T cars with Zipcar ads, commuters in Porter Square first got a pitch from a competitor: RelayRides, which had a street team out Friday morning handing out cards bearing a $25 credit to try the service. Kendall Square is next for the startup car rental business.
As one Venture Cafe grows, talks for another continue
By Marc Levy
Published: July 16, 2010
Retail space negotiations for a full-time Venture Café continue, but the organizer of the planned tech-community meeting space, Timothy Rowe, shows no sign of impatience.
Media panel’s brand: Quirky and contradictory
By Marc Levy
Published: July 15, 2010
There were mentions of such things as newspapers (as “old media”) and fax machines (as in “don’t fax me”) Tuesday at a panel discussion called Media Branding 2.0, but the focus was on social networks — Facebook, Twitter and the like — and how entrepreneurs can best use them to promote themselves and their businesses.
Secrets of media attention to get airing for entrepreneurs
By Marc Levy
Published: July 8, 2010
There are tricks (or, to put it more politely, techniques) to getting attention from the media, and who better than members of the media to reveal them to entrepreneurs and small-business owners?
That’s the idea behind Media Branding 2.0, a panel discussion and question-and-answer event planned for Tuesday at Ryles, the Inman Square jazz club.
The pitch [...]