Senate panel grills Apple CEO on tax tactics
The Senate questioned chief executive Timothy Cook over allegations that Apple’s Irish subsidiaries help the company avoid billions in US taxes.
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The Senate questioned chief executive Timothy Cook over allegations that Apple’s Irish subsidiaries help the company avoid billions in US taxes.
Thousands of homeowners have received mortgage assistance from major US lenders as part of a national settlement with a multistate group of attorneys general.
Decision postponed on new rules for eel fisheryRegulators postponed making a decision on new rules for Maine’s lucrative American eel fishery.
The drug, called Plegridy, is a new version of the Weston biotechnology company’s first — and hugely successful — MS treatment, Avonex.
The Somerville company has grown from two guys selling chocolate bars from the back of their bicycles to a 60-employee manufacturing operation.
Shareholder activists sought to force the JPMorgan Chase CEO and chairman to give up the latter job.
In a breakfast forum at the Seaport Boston Hotel, US Attorney Carmen Ortiz urged female business leaders to help other women succeed in their fields.
Americans got better about paying their credit card debt on time in the first three months of the year.
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Some in Silicon Valley and elsewhere say that a conventional education can’t possibly give kids with outsize talents what they need.
The visually dramatic black-and-white floor in the entryway of this spacious center entrance Colonial signals what lies ahead.
Quarterly net income rose 18 percent to $1.23 billion, or 83 cents a share, at the world’s biggest home-improvement chain.
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals said it had commenced an underwritten public offering of 10.5 million shares of Class A common stock.
A day trip to view daffodils in Nantucket or a flight to Paris to soak in the Tuileries Garden? It is a season imbued with fresh possibilities.
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