Cash

With Facebook's upcoming initial public offering, some Facebook fans and potential investors are looking to get into the action without plunking down some significant cash, according to a blog post on Latimes.com . Some would-be investors are turning to services that allow them to buy a single share of stock. These services, which include websites such as GiveAShare , OneShare and FrameAStock offer their customers the option to buy one share above the selling price, according to the story.

The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "MassCash" game were: 03-07-25-26-27 (three, seven, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven)

If hypocrisy had a face, a look, a certain familiar strut, it would be that of old favorite Curt Schilling as he pushed his way through a swirling collection of reporters and photographers in Providence this week with absolutely nothing of consequence to say. Curt Schilling, mute, the one time he actually owed an explanation. Perfect. But that's a minor point, really. There's a larger hypocrisy in his failing video game venture, the one that Rhode Island state officials giddily backed to the tune of $75 million in loan guarantees, which seems to be a fancy financial term for...

His cash advantage threatened, President Barack Obama and his party are redoubling their fundraising efforts after robust hauls by Republican rival Mitt Romney and a slew of GOP-leaning super PACs that are raking in cash from the party faithful highly motivated to topple the Democrat. Obama still has a significant edge, but it's shrinking rapidly. That explains why the president, fresh off of back-to-back international summits, plunged back into his re-election race Wednesday with a series of fundraising events in Denver and California's Silicon Valley.

In the final months of two mostly unmemorable terms in office, Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri boasted about his little state's big splash - stealing former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and his nascent video game company from Massachusetts. "This is a risk worth taking," said Carcieri, a Republican, announcing the 2010 deal that lured Schilling's company, 38 Studios, to Providence, and put Rhode Island taxpayers on the hook for up to $75 million in guaranteed loans to an athlete who liked video games but had never developed one. "I think the governor...

Mitt Romney has long called himself a venture capitalist, experience he says helps him understand the economy better than other candidates for president. But he spent much more of his career in leveraged buyouts than in the investments in start-up companies known as venture capital. Romney's one true venture deal was Staples Inc., the office supply superstore, two years after he started Bain Capital. He wasn't the first to discover Staples; another Boston venture firm introduced him to Staples founder Tom Stemberg.

Looking to add depth to an outfield ravaged by injury, the Boston Red Sox have acquired Scott Podsednik from the Philadelphia Phillies for cash. The slumping Red Sox announced the move Friday night. Podsednik was hitting .203 with four RBIs and six stolen bases in 22 games at Triple-A Lehigh Valley. The speedy Podsednik, 36, last appeared in the majors in 2010 with the Royals and Dodgers. He will report to Triple-A Pawtucket. With the Milwaukee Brewers in 2004, Podsednik led the National League with 70 stolen bases.

The Century Bank at 102 Fellsway West was robbed about 10:15 a.m. Monday by a man police say fled before literally running into a police cruiser. By Matt Byrne, Town Correspondent A suspected bank robber was arrested Monday morning after the fleeing man ran into traffic and struck a police cruiser, tumbling over the squad car's windshield and hood before officers caught up with him, authorities said. Timothy Walton, 25, of Boston, was scheduled for arraignment Tuesday in Somerville Municipal Court on one count of unarmed...

ORONO, Maine -- A Hermon woman who lost $4,500 in cash on Wednesday thought she would never see her money again. She was wrong. By chance, a neighbor found the rubber band-wrapped wad of cash on Route 2 and turned it into police. The cash then made its way back to Cindy Stevens, who thought the money was gone forever. Stevens was on her way to deposit the money, which was to pay for a cruise she is planning to take with her husband next month. But somehow it fell out of her purse and onto Route 2 in Hermon as she drove to work.

MALDEN - It was a mob hit in a cannoli shop. But cash not crooks descended on The Cannoli Guy Café here Friday at the city's first "cash mob. " The café opened at 7 a.m., and by midafternoon, owner Clark Heighton could not turn out the treats fast enough. "A fantastic, fantastic day," said Heighton, who rang in as many sales - 400 cannoli - in eight hours as he does in an entire week. "I'm trying to figure out a way to thank the city. " Customers found out about the event, organized by the city of Malden, days earlier on Facebook and Twitter, and they came out to support the...

The Century Bank at 102 Fellsway West was robbed about 10:15 a.m. Monday by a man police say fled before literally running into a police cruiser. By Matt Byrne, Town Correspondent A suspected bank robber was arrested Monday morning after the fleeing man ran into traffic and struck a police cruiser, tumbling over the squad car's windshield and hood before officers caught up with him, authorities said. Timothy Walton, 25, of Boston, was scheduled for arraignment Tuesday in Somerville Municipal Court on one count of unarmed robbery after he...

Kidney dialysis services provider DaVita Inc. said Monday that it has agreed to buy the doctor network operator HealthCare Partners in a cash-stock deal worth about $4.42 billion. Denver-based DaVita said it will pay about $3.66 billion in cash and contributed common stock valued at $758 million as of last Friday to the deal. It also could pay an additional $275 million in cash if HealthCare Partners achieves performance targets this year and next. HealthCare Partners manages and runs medical groups and doctor networks, with operations...

MANY CORPORATE GIANTS count on billion-dollar blockbuster products, from Coca-Cola to the iPad, to make money. Covidien PLC, on the other hand, has stitched together a bulging catalog of more than 50,000 obscure health products, ranging from surgical instruments to bandages, that together generate billions of dollars in sales a year. Solid sales and profit growth drove Covidien to number 16 on the Globe 100 - the highest for a medical device maker this year. In 2011, Covidien reported $11.7 billion in revenue, up 11 percent from the previous year.

Apple Inc. lost 2.9 percent, sending its market value to $495.7 billion. Its market capitalization had topped $500 billion in February, cementing its lead as the most valuable company. SAC Capital Advisors and Viking Global were among hedge funds that sold a net 6.1 million shares of Apple last quarter, taking advantage of a 48 percent jump in the stock.

The photo looked like a snap from the glory days: Retired Red Sox great Curt Schilling surrounded by a swarm of reporters pressing in close with notebooks and cameras. But there was nothing glorious about the scene this week, when Schilling met with Rhode Island economic officials scrambling to keep his 38 Studios computer gaming company afloat. Those state officials were already on the hook for $75 million in business loan guarantees — one of the great bonehead economic development deals of recent history — and publicly questioning whether additional aid Schilling is seeking...

Manchester United revealed the financial impact on Thursday of its early exit from the Champions League, with earnings dropping and cash reserves being halved in the first three months of the year. United was deposed as Premier League champions by Manchester City on Sunday and eliminated from the lucrative Champions League at the group stage in December. The quarterly accounts show that earnings for the club owned by the American Glazer family dipped by almost 10 percent year-on-year to 20.4 million pounds ($32.3 million)

I was one of the many who rolled his or her eyes when the suggestion came up in recent weeks. But after watching what the Giants did to the Patriots' offense last night, I'm on board. Bring him in.

The Friends of the Arts Campaign obtained 135 advertisements and nearly $1,000 in family sponsorships during its annual major fund-raising campaign for the Nashoba Regional School District's music and drama programs. The arts advocacy group will continue to take donations throughout the school year. - Matt Gunderson

Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney and his party together raised $40.1 million in April. The figures put the likely GOP nominee's fundraising haul closer to the $43.6 million that President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party raised last month. Romney's campaign pulled in about $12.5 million in March. April's reports provide the first fundraising tallies of the general election. Romney began raising cash in conjunction with the GOP last month. The new fundraising totals don't include the hundreds of millions of dollars being spent by "super" political action...

Ecuador's official news agency says police have found a cocaine-processing lab near where a small Mexican-registered plane crashed over the weekend with $1.3 million in cash aboard. Andina news agency says three people were arrested and a half ton of cocaine seized at the lab Wednesday. Andina also says authorities assume the plane was carrying more than the $1.3 million that was found after it crashed, killing the pilot and co-pilot. It identifies them as presumed members of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel.