Business Today reports, “[Boston] is close to stealing an Apple from the Big Apple, in a deal that could pump tens of millions of dollars into the city’s beleagured economy, sources say. The organizer of Macworld is near an agreement with City Hall and state convention officials to bring the giant techology show for Apple Computer enthusiasts back to Boston for 2004, the maiden year of the city’s struggling $800 million convention center.” Left to work out is still the issue of the 2,400 available hotel rooms required by IDG World Expo as a condition of moving back to Beantown. Read on here.