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I joined the Boston Globe's business section in 2014, writing and editing about the city's startup and technology scene. Since then, I've taken on the Globe's "Golden Age of Consumerism" beat, focusing on retail, restaurants, and consumer culture. My favorite stories are a mashup of the two, looking at how technology and retail are increasingly intertwined and reshaping how we think about commerce.
Featured Stories
The changing face of Greater Boston’s neighborhoods.
The pandemic crushed businesses on Boston's Water Street. Even more devastating: The effects ripple around the world.
How companies use geolocation data to target you — and everyone around — in ways you're not even aware of
With a team of superstar scientists and chefs, the man who views himself as a modern-day Willy Wonka is reimagining food for the future.
Dining in is the new dining out
Can an 80-year-old US labor law change the future for tech employees?
When the teen didn’t come home from the mall one night, a mother followed text message records to a horrible discovery.
Content—not tech—is what virtual reality needs now
Can Amazon democratize the Whole Foods experience without sacrificing standards?
He was king of N.E. snow sports until his empire went bust. Now he is making his comeback
Under Carlos Moedas’s watch, the EU makes efforts to innovate
AFL-CIO’s Damon Silvers on the link between fast-food worker protests and organized labor
From dorm room to the top-floor office, from incubator to accelorator, the saga (so far) of a student startup
*Paris Wallace claims that his Boston-based startup Ovuline has helped thousands of women conceive with the help of its fertility app. And I want to be next.
Armed with a chickpea fritter and mountains of data, Ayr Muir, of Cambridge’s Clover Food Lab, is just a few thousand restaurants short of saving the world.
Can Christine Day get Americans to warm up to healthy frozen food?
After defining ourselves for generations by possessions, a dramatic cultural shift is under way. In the wake of a collapsed economy, what matters to a growing number of Americans is not so much ownership as access. That's made Boston ground zero for a powerful new force: The sharing economy.