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Investors will be able to focus more on corporate fundamentals as third-quarter earnings season enters its peak week without the distractions of a government shutdown or pending U.S. debt default.

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, k...

Even if you can't afford to stay at a 5-star hotel while traveling, you can still get a 5-star experience. Hotels.com created an exclusive list of the most underrated hotels in America. To create this list, the hotel res...

Tied to the World Food Prize Foundation's 2013 Borlaug Dialogue, the Skoll World Forum is featuring several keynote speakers writing at the nexus of three subjects central to the global challenges we face in the 21st ...

Although the sigh of relief that the nation wasn’t going to default today was worth a short bounce, the outlook for additional stock market gains seems bleak.  The agreement to open the federal government and raise th...

Every passing month and unanswered résumé dimmed Jim Glay's optimism more. So with no job in sight, he joined a growing number of older people and created his own. In…

Total digital sales are down almost 1 percent so far this year, and some in the industry cite the rise of streaming music services like Spotify and Pandora.     

Miscalculations and miscommunication can lead to some horrible results — especially in the field of science. These eight classic examples may make you laugh, cry, or just shake your head in disbelief. A simple problem ...

Software engineers are often well paid. But where are they best paid? Jobs review site Glassdoor pulled the top 25 companies around the world that pay their US-based software engineers the most.  The highest paying com...

With consumers expected to spend more cautiously this holiday season, retailers are increasing advertising, discounts and other efforts to attract them.     

Nokero just introduced its next generation of solar-powered light bulbs aimed at impoverished communities--and saving lives.

I posed that question this week to my friend Dr. Phil Windley, an expert technologist, Executive Producer of IT Conversations and a serial entrepreneur. He and co-founder Stephen Fulling have launched multiple ventures t...

While crowdfunding has received considerable positive fanfare since the JOBS Act was passed in April 2012, there has also been considerable criticism leveled against the industry covering both the companies trying to cro...

We've all been there: You land a new client but soon discover he has no idea what your company does -- let alone what he actually expects from working with you. This is the client who pisses off your employees, takes up ...

The following guest post is by Shama Kabani, a business strategist for the digital age, and serves as founder & CEO of The Marketing Zen Group (a full service web marketing & digital PR firm). She is also the author of T...

Procuring the resources needed to make products is a pillar of any business. How much easier would it be if you could simply find them washed up on a beach? Three American entrepreneurs operating in Chile are, apparently...

By Mark Chandler, the general counsel at Cisco Systems

With the U.S. economy?s slow growth in recent quarters, it may seem like nobody?s seeing much business, least of all small firms.

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday's session are McDonald's, Netflix and Texas Instruments.

As it prepared a bid to supply taxicabs to Hong Kong, Ford Motor released correspondence in which China's first president invited Henry Ford to China.     

After weeks of Washington taking the market headlines, investors can now focus on organizations that actually create wealth -- companies.

(Reuters) - U.S. housing regulators are looking to fine Bank of America more than $6 billion for its role in misleading mortgage agencies during the housing boom, compared with the $4 billion to be paid by JPMorgan Chase...