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With the holiday season upon us, high-yield retailers face a test of how heavier debt loads can weather chillier consumer sentiment.

Content marketing isn?t necessarily something new, but how brands and marketers are leveraging new digital technologies to create and promote compelling content is. According to a recent Forrester report, consumers are n...

Not all entrepreneurs who want to "scale" a business find that a cash infusion is the secret to success.

David Lee Roth, the legendary lead singer for the band Van Halen, was the poster child for 1980s excess. He was chastised in the news media for demanding only non-brown M&M's in his dressing room, the presumably obvious ...

I had not been in Rome for decades.   My memory of driving through the streets seeing intermittent archaeological ruins -- and of course the famous ones -- was as vivid as ever.  All are glorious to behold!

Does the U.S. corporate tax rate incentivize foreign acquisitions by cash-rich multinationals?

The helicopter dunk tank scenario is not a favorite of the Marines, but still, it saves lives. In it, Marines mount up into a modified helicopter hull and strap in. Then the hull dunks into the water and rolls over. The ...

Want to read 15 famous business books in under a minute? To save you some time and money, we've made it possible. We boiled down some of the most popular and influential business books out there to their central lesson...

CALGARY - The Fort Hills oilsands mine is a go after years of delay, Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU) announced Wednesday. Canada's largest energy company says the project's total cost -- shared between Suncor and partners To...

In the last Presidential election, I knew my candidate, Jill Stein, was not going to win.  I was comforted by the belief that at the Sesquicentennial of the Gettysburg Address, we would have either a member of Mr. Linco...

The safest man to have sex with in America lives in Los Angeles. He has been working on "the social side of technology" for some years now. And, he was slapped by a date who thought he had a sexually transmitted disease....

Athlete stock trading company signs another football player, but many questions regarding the viability of the offering remain.

After the Million-Dollar, One-Person Business series ran on this blog, I heard from a number of readers who were very curious about what types of internet businesses are generating seven-figure revenues with no employees...

What's been your experience with startup equity payout? This question was originally answered on Quora by Michael Wolfe.

Morgan Stanley makes a troubling prediction: the upcoming holiday shopping season will be the worst since 2008. In a new report — titled "Expect Coal: We Predict the Weakest Holiday Since 2008" — Morgan Stanley analy...

Vodafone India will cut data rates with effect from 1 November

A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked a judge's order that required changes to the New York City Police Department's stop-and-frisk practices.  The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also removed Judge Shira Sch...

At Hipmob, we spend all day thinking about how to help mobile businesses better talk to customers. Talking to customers helps you understand them better, better solve their problems, and grow your business. Our product i...

The healthcare flexible spending arrangement rules just got more complicated.

Markets slipped a bit today, but they continue to be a handful of points from their all-time highs. First, the scoreboard: Dow: 15,545.7, -73.0, -0.4% S&P 500: 1,756.5, -6.7, -0.3% NASDAQ: 3,919.7, -10.9, -0.2% And no...

What does your startup do? Who does it serve, and how are you different or unique?

Hillary Clinton spoke at two Goldman Sachs events over the past few days, the National Review's Alec Torres reports. Clinton takes home about $200,000 per speech, which apparently is around the going rate for the "former...