The Cambridge Innovation Center, or CIC, is finally opening up an outpost in Boston. But --surprise!-- it will be in the stodgy old Financial District rather than the glitzy new Innovation District. The Boston Globe reported Friday that the CIC has signed a lease for five floors at 50 Milk Street where it plans to house up to 300 tech-related start-ups. In addition to reasonably priced office space, the CIC provides fledgling companies with support services such as access to office equipment, kitchens and conference rooms. The CIC's choice of address is interesting. The group's Cambridge offices are located in …

Attention Boston job shoppers: H&L Partners is hiring! The San Francisco-based ad agency has officially opened up an office on Canal Street, near the Boston Garden. H&L plans to immediately hire about 12 employees in Boston for service and project management positions. Over the coming year, the agency will also hire for creative, interactive and production positions that are currently being supported by other offices. Media planning and buying will be done through its agency of record, Havas.

Attention all those hip and happening. MITX has extended the deadline for entries for its annual What's Next Awards for innovation and imagination in creative, tech and digital marketing. The new deadline is Friday, March 14. Awards will be presented for marketing efforts in the following sectors: B2B (which includes professional services, technology and agencies), consumer goods, education, financial services/insurance, health care, non-profit/government, and travel/leisure/entertainment.

Social media powerhouse Twitter has officially opened its new East Coast headquarters, and it's not in New York. It's in Cambridge. Twitter Boston tweeted the news late Monday, with a picture of their new digs. The office's Twitter profile describes it as "Twitter's East Coast Headquarters (Sorry @TwitterNYC ;)." The new headquarters will also be home for Bluefin Labs, a Cambridge start-up acquired by Twitter last year. Bluefin develops "social TV" software that analyzes and evaluates comments posted about TV shows on social media sites such as Twitter. Bluefin then sells the data to TV broadcasters and advertisers.

As part of John Henry's ongoing quest to return the Boston Globe to its regional roots, the broadsheet has unveiled a snazzier, significantly expanded Sunday Op-Ed section that gives two extra pages to New England-based writers and what it terms "thought leaders." The new and improved Op-Ed section, which on Sunday featured pieces on subjects ranging from transgender jargon to American hubris in international affairs, is the Globe's latest move to grow readership by re-cementing its status as the go-to news source for New Englanders.

While the sun might be shining brighter on the Boston Globe these days, a cloud of uncertainty still hovers over its sibling, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. The T&G reported Friday that the paper's retired editor, Harry Whitin, and Polar Beverages Chief Executive Officer Ralph Crowley, Jr., have pulled out of negotiations to buy the broadsheet, which has been on and off the market for several years. Whitin and Crowley first tried to buy the paper in 2009, when the New York Times actively sought bids for the Globe, the T&G and other related properties. The papers, along with their …

It's been another busy day in the back offices of the "Boston Globe." Just a few days after the launch of an ambitious new Web site dedicated to the region's tech community, details are now leaking out about a proposed second site that will be devoted to news about the Catholic Church.

Another day, another announcement from Team Henry at the "Boston Globe." Earlier this week, Boston Globe Media unveiled a new Web site called BetaBoston targeted at the region's thriving tech and start-up communities. Now the "Globe" has decided to get rid of the annoying paywall on its online edition that was instituted in 2011 by former owner The New York Times. Over the past two years, the paywall had become so encompassing that it often blocked readers who reached the site through social media.

The way to a customer's heart is through their stomach, apparently. According to an annual survey by Waban, Mass.-based Temkin Group, grocery stores and fast-food chains ranked highest in providing positive customer experiences, while health care insurers and telecom providers were lowest. The big winners of the 2014 Temkin Experience Ratings Survey were Trader Joe's, H.E.B., Publix, ALDI, Food Lion, Kroger, Sam's Club and Piggly Wiggly. Other favorites were fast-food emporiums Chick-fil-A, Dairy Queen and Starbucks. Credit unions also fared well.

Boston Globe publisher John Henry is wasting no time rolling out new products to help expand the financially troubled newspaper's readership and advertising bases. Just days after announcing the Globe would target New England snowbirds with a Florida edition, Boston Globe Media has unveiled a new website targeted at Boston's vibrant tech-innovation community.