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Group offers cool ideas for a hotter Boston in coming decades

The local chapter of the Urban Land Institute releases a report on how the city might cope with rising temperatures.

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Is $18 billion enough to upgrade transportation, or is $50 billion more like it?

Consensus is building to raise taxes and fees to achieve transportation nirvana. The real question is whether Beacon Hill has the political will to act.

At nonprofit PowerOptions, Takle ready to take charge

Heather March Takle will replace the retiring Cindy Arcate.

Uber CEO backtracks on comment that likened Khashoggi murder to a car accident

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Connecticut college gymnast dies after training accident
An accomplished gymnast at Southern Connecticut State University has died following a serious spinal cord injury suffered in a training accident.

Boeing surges most since June on optimism over 737 Max timeline
Boeing Co. soared after providing more detail on how the 737 Max will return to the skies — even as the company backed away from saying the grounded jet would win full regulatory approval next month.

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Globe reporter Janelle Nanos sits down with leaders in the city’s business community to talk about their career paths, work and accomplishments, as well as their vision for Boston’s future.

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KKR makes formal approach to Walgreens Boots on record buyout

KKR & Co. has formally approached drugstore giant Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. about a deal to take the company private, in what could be the biggest-ever leveraged buyout, people familiar with the matter said.

Alibaba says Singles Day in China was another hit

The planet’s biggest shopping day has come and gone, and Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce behemoth again showed the world how many mountains of stuff it could persuade people to buy in the 24 hours.

As Harvard narrows bidders for Allston land, a focus on housing emerges

The three development teams that just made the finals in Harvard’s Great Allston Chase may be quite different. But they share one important trait: All three want more housing.

Boston data backup company Carbonite sold for $1.42b

Founded in 2005, Carbonite was among the first companies to offer consumers an easy way to back up their personal computers by storing the data in the Internet cloud.

Apple Card’s sex-bias claims look familiar to old-school banks

The increasing use of algorithms in lending decisions has sharpened the debate about “disparate impact” — whether models are only entrenching discrimination that algorithm-driven lending is meant to stamp out.

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A pitch competition, a workshop on operating a business with a shoestring budget, and other events and things to know.

Uber CEO walks back comment calling Jamal Khashoggi’s murder a ‘mistake’

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is being criticized for calling the murder of a Washington Post columnist “a mistake” and comparing it to the death of a pedestrian struck by one of the company’s autonomous vehicles.

Amazon plans to launch a new supermarket brand separate from Whole Foods

Amazon plans to launch a new supermarket brand distinct from Whole Foods, a sign of the retail giant’s hunger for a slice of the grocery market beyond high-end organic food.