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BMW AG is rolling out a new model for its retail sales to "future-proof" its distribution. Translation: Make sure its dealerships don't become obsolescent, says Peter Miles, executive vice president of the company's Nor...

Web design trends come and go every year, and it's important for designers and business owners to keep up with them in order to stay up-to-date and avoid having an outdated website. Although minor trends pop up all the t...

A new 15-minute at-home test for Alzheimer's found that 28 percent of those 50 and older had cognitive impairment. Take it yourself to find out where you stand.

The Internal Revenue Service is one of the biggest losers in the 2014 budget deal agreed to last night by House and Senate negotiators. Under the agreement, the service would get just $11.3 billion, which is $526 million...

How do you turn a talent for baking into a business? Camilla Stephens, award-winning founder of the hugely successful Higgidy pie company, tells how she started with one oven and now produces 150 miles of made-from-scrat...

Japanese spirits giant Suntory has acquired American bourbon whiskey company Jim Bean for a deal valued at some $16 billion. The horizon for the spirits industry shows promising developments on the opposite side of the s...

Google's decision to buy Nest for $3.2 billion is fascinating to intellectual-property experts, who see indirect gains here for patent king Nathan Myhrvold and his firm, Intellectual Ventures.

You gotta walk the walk if you're gonna talk the talk.

Getting kids interested in robots isn't the hard part. Providing them a way to explore the field is getting easier, too.

Failure, as defined by the folks at Oxford, means to omit an expected action. The question I ask is, to whose expectation does this refer? I'd say too often to the wrong person.

A lot of businesses experience the January doldrums during the first few weeks of the year. Not only do sales slow down after an active holiday season, but most employees are still in vacation mode, which diminishes prod...

The ever-worsening news from Target's breach of credit card and customer data highlights the need to implement a more secure U.S. system to process our card payments.

Just when is the DSUE amount available to a surviving spouse or the estate of a surviving spouse for use in determining the surviving spouse's applicable exclusion amount?

How do you build a team from scratch? That's what I'm doing right now in Hong Kong, and here's how I'm doing it.

A culture of performance is not always a culture that seems catchy.

By the time he died this past December, hedge fund manager and philanthropist Robert W. Wilson had done many notable things. In the '70s, he'd survived what Forbes called "the most catastrophic short play in modern times...

Many are stunned to learn that it is a Democratic Member of the City Council in Maryland's Prince George's County proposing an exemption from a minimum wage increase. But the move comes as no surprise to anyone who under...

Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff built Honest Tea from scratch into a $100 million enterprise. In my recent article on Forbes, you get a few lessons and a compelling story of their journey. But wait, because there's one m...

Diversity is critical for organization's ability to innovate and adapt in a fast-changing environment. Take a look at how Progressive Insurance invites and nurtures diversity to build an inclusive culture.

By Dorie Clark

I recommend that entrepreneurs - regardless of where they live - check out the New York Tech Meetup (NYTM).

When word came out that the FDA was shutting down the popular Silicon-valley based genetic testing service 23andme, public sentiment was on the side of the company. With that said, proponents of shutting down 23andme wer...