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Author, marketing expert, and TEDTalk speaker Erika Napoletano uses a lot of salty language in her blog RedHead Writing, including the "f" word. But it took Facebook to turn her into a porn star, as first spotted by EJ ...

Roger Goodell announced this week that the NFL will examine the possibility of expanding the playoff format to include two extra teams (via ESPN.com). While there is fear that playoff expansion would minimize the importa...

By Tim O'Reilly

This natural foods maker has discovered the double-edged phenom of innovation: New products fuel growth--and nasty competition.

Each year Forbes ranks the best-performing public companies with revenues under $1 billion. While tech features heavily--we're celebrating the non-tech (think food, travel, sports and logistics) companies that are making...

It may have been a while since you've heard about rapper Coolio, but he's blowing up on Reddit today. The 50-year-old rapper crashed a party at the University of Central Lancashire in England, where he proceeded to cook...

How do you make your team more efficient? You empower them to take ownership over their work. "Empowered people are crucial to any organization’s success," says Dan Sanker, CEO of logistics outsourcing company CaseSta...

Self-storage may not be the sexiest sector in real estate, but it has piqued the interest of Wall Street. The four publicly traded self-storage real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been turning in impressive result...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- German luxury automaker BMW says sales rose 6.7 percent in September thanks to stronger demand in the United States and Asia.     

This is certainly not good PR for the military, much less the government. On Day 7 of the government shutdown, a U.S. Army recruiting command had its order filled for a mechanical bull to the tune of $47,000, as reported...

ALDIE, Va. -- ALDIE, Va. (AP) -- Authorities in northern Virginia say Jacqueline Badger Mars, an owner of candy company Mars Inc., was driving an SUV that was involved in a fatal crash. The Loudoun County Sheriff's Offic...

Stock certificates issued by The Walt Disney Company are heading off to Never Never Land.

J.C. Penney said Wednesday that Saks Chairman and CEO Stephen Sadove is joining its board of directors.

We're talking about high school interns. It may seem counterintuitive, but hiring high schoolers could do wonders for your organization.

Corporate America, especially in a down economy is a very difficult place to get ahead. In some corporate cultures, people are out to get each other as much as they are out to win business from prospective clients.

The cost to buy credit protection on debt backing restaurant operator Yum! Brands has ticked steadily higher in recent weeks, punctuated by a further rise this morning following disappointing third-quarter earnings res...

Women-owned businesses are growing fast, you might even say faster than a speeding bullet. October is National Women's Small Business Month and there's reason to celebrate. Earlier this year (March) American Express esti...

Each year, as FORBES lists America's Best Small Companies, a handful of enterprises are shut out of the list not because they've fallen from grace or hit a roadbump, but because they've met with success so great it puts ...

Online marketing has undergone a tremendous change since its early days. Where there used to be only backlinks and metadata, there is now a whole new universe of marketing channels.

Wednesday's launch of the 35th annual Forbes 100 Best Small Companies list introduced more than 25 newcomers, from snack foods to 3D printers, but what struck us the most was a counterintuitive trend: while technology co...

Each year Forbes ranks the best-performing public companies with revenues under $1 billion. While tech features heavily--we're celebrating the non-tech (think food, travel, sports and logistics) companies that are making...

Recapping winners and losers from California's recent legislative effort to "fix" Internet privacy