White House unveils Health Care Wizard to teach business owners about …Washington PostThe White House has kicked its Obamacare outreach and education efforts into full gear, including a new Website designed specifically for curious and confused busin…
LowCards.comSmall Business Owners Are Optimistic–But Not Racing To HireForbesThe National Small BusinessAssociation's new Mid-Year Economic Report, which surveyed 1,100 business owners in June and July, found that 40% of small business owners say …
Obama's push to clean house in home mortgage businessFox NewsIt's one more — the battered housing market is moving in the right direction at least for now. And tonight President Obama is pushing for a major change in how Americans. Finance the…
Montreal GazetteSony CEO Rejects Loeb's Call to Spin Off Entertainment BusinessWall Street Journal"After careful review, the Sony Board of Directors has unanimously concluded that continuing to own 100% of our entertainment business is the bes…
WiredPost sale hailed by business leadersWashington PostThe sale of The Washington Post to one of the Internet's foremost entrepreneurs was praised as a smart business move for both parties even as a few voiced wistful worries that their newspaper …
New York TimesAll-You-Can-Fly Airline Plies the California CoastNew York TimesBURBANK, Calif. — Meticulous, well-thought-out plans may be for some people, but not Wade Eyerly. At 16, he walked into the registrar's office at the University of Cent…
Why Edison Wants A Piece Of The Rooftop Solar BusinessForbesThe SoCore acquisition will give Edison a foothold in the business of installing and operating rooftop solar electric systems for business and industrial customers. SoCore, founded in 2008 and…
Yahoo! Movies (blog)Sometimes you just have to say … 'Risky Business' is 30NBCNews.com (blog)Joel Goodson is pushing 50 now, probably a suburban dad wrestling with kids and lawncare woes and holding only fading memories of the night he was ch…
KELOLAND TVCBS Calls Time Warner's Offer End to Battle 'a Sham'Fox Business"Anyone familiar with the entertainment business knows that the economics and structure of the cable industry doesn't work that way and isn't likely to …
WiredThe Personal Television Revolution Is Horrifying — And BrilliantWiredScience Prodigy Zhao Bowen Wants to Crack a Genetic Mystery: What Makes Some People So Smart? Subscribe. Subscribe to Wired Magazine. RSS · Search. Search. Subscribe to …
RollingStone.comCan Kickstarter Save the Movie Business?RollingStone.comMovies are expensive, studios have largely gotten out of the indie business, and other sources (MacArthur Fellowships) are few and far between. So how's a would-be filmmaker su…
Want to Sell Your Business to Foreigners? Here's How to Win Over the RegulatorsForbesBecause Smithfield is in the food business, there is concern about more than the export of jobs or U.S. technology. People worry about what might happen to the qua…
Gauging Small Business Hiring: Slight SlowdownBusinessweekThe U.S economy added 162,000 jobs last month, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after adding 176,000 jobs in June. How did Main Street contribute to national …
Boston GlobeRed Sox owner in deal to purchase GlobeBoston.comBoston Red Sox principal owner John Henry entered into an agreement early Saturday to buy The Boston Globe, a deal that will put the 141-year-old newspaper, its websites, and affiliated compa…
Funny business: Sex doesn't always sell wellUSA TODAYWhich is why I'm talking about sex on a business website. Contrary to popular belief, however, sex doesn't automatically sell well. Part of its success depends on the economy. For example…
How The Financial Crisis Helped Turn Big Banks Into Global Commodities KingsBusiness InsiderTwo years later, JP Morgan got in the mix and JP Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation — the business that was just fined by federal regulators — was born in 2…
The tricky business of a Santa Monica street performerLos Angeles TimesWorld Now · Afghanistan war · Africa · Americas · Asia · Europe · Middle East · Business · Money & Co. Technology ·…
The Race to Build a Better Business ClassNew York Times“Business class is where competition really is serious,” says Björn Bosler, the airline's manager for passenger experience design, business and premium, who led Lufthansa's team of doz…
Rearranging the Furniture in Business ClassNew York TimesThe challenge is to fit as many seats as possible within limited real estate while still providing comfort — especially that of a flat bed, which is becoming the standard in international busin…
Rearranging the Furniture in Business ClassNew York TimesThe challenge is to fit as many seats as possible within limited real estate while still providing comfort — especially that of a flat bed, which is becoming the standard in international busin…
EntrepreneurIs Facebook Getting Its Business Model Right?ForbesAfter being out of favor with Wall Street for more than a year, Facebook Facebook's (FB) stock rebounded nicely recently, following strong Q2 results that beat analyst estimates by a wi…
EntrepreneurIs Facebook Getting Its Business Model Right?ForbesAfter being out of favor with Wall Street for more than a year, Facebook Facebook's (FB) stock rebounded nicely recently, following strong Q2 results that beat analyst estimates by a wi…
The Business Of FearTechCrunchI spent much of this week at the Black Hat information security conference, after attending the head of the NSA's keynote speech; and I am pleased to report, O my readers, that here in Las Vegas I have finally achieved…
The Business Of FearTechCrunchI spent much of this week at the Black Hat information security conference, after attending the head of the NSA's keynote speech; and I am pleased to report, O my readers, that here in Las Vegas I have finally achieved…
ABC NewsPostal Service Considers Cutting Into Alcohol Shipping BusinessABC NewsAs the U.S. Postal Service faces $15 billion in losses this year as fewer people send mail, one of the ways it hopes to raise money is by shipping alcohol. Private carriers …
ABC NewsPostal Service Considers Cutting Into Alcohol Shipping BusinessABC NewsAs the U.S. Postal Service faces $15 billion in losses this year as fewer people send mail, one of the ways it hopes to raise money is by shipping alcohol. Private carriers …
The GuardianBT and Vodafone among telecoms companies passing details to GCHQThe GuardianBT, Vodafone Cable, and the American firm Verizon Business – together with four other smaller providers – have given GCHQ secret unlimited access to their netwo…
The GuardianBT and Vodafone among telecoms companies passing details to GCHQThe GuardianBT, Vodafone Cable, and the American firm Verizon Business – together with four other smaller providers – have given GCHQ secret unlimited access to their netwo…
Boston HeraldWe Never Need To Worry About The Future Of Journalism AgainBusiness InsiderThe New York Times's digital news business will not support a newsroom the size of the New York Times' current newsroom. As the New York Times' print ed…
Detroit's Skilled Workers ProblemFox BusinessGoodwill Industries has formed businesses in Detroit that it uses to train workers. An automotive supply business fills orders for Ford, Chrysler and GM, and a company called Green Works strips down powe…
Big business in chicken wingsCNNThere are at least 20 chains, and together they make up nearly 2,000 restaurants across the United States. Add independent wing restaurants, and the count might double. Wings were once the least desirable part of the bir…
GamingBoltActivision CEO: 'Business as usual' after pushing through buyout dealZDNet (blog)Activision CEO: 'Business as usual' after pushing through buyout deal. Summary: After finalizing a deal to buy back the company's majority st…
BloombergGoogle's Motorola Unveils Moto X Phone to Revive BusinessBloombergGoogle Inc. (GOOG)'s Motorola Mobility unit today announced a flagship Moto X smartphone with customizable colors, in an effort to revive the business after falling behi…
Los Angeles TimesSmall-business workers' health care choices, ratesSan Francisco ChronicleIn San Francisco, businesses with 50 or fewer workers will be able to pick a level of coverage from a standardized set of benefits. Their employees will then …
Business InsiderAfter Snowden, no business as usual for US and RussiaReutersWhile the Kremlin played down any bilateral friction, Obama administration officials and top lawmakers suggested it would not be business as usual now that Russia has given Sno…
Los Angeles TimesHealth insurance rates for California's small businesses unveiledLos Angeles TimesSACRAMENTO — California's small businesses next year will have a range of competitively priced options offered by a new state government health…
UN's messy, billion-dollar peacekeeping air charter business hugely …Fox NewsFour years after United Nations auditors declared that the U.N.'s billion-dollar program for moving people and equipment on peacekeeping charter flights was a mess, …
NPRPrivate Equity Fund Eyes The Business Of PotNPRA couple of guys with serious investment banking experience are moving into the marijuana business. They've launched the first multimillion-dollar private equity fund devoted entirely to what they l…
Against All Odds — Launching A Retail Organic Foods BusinessForbesThe dramatic rise in sales of organic foods and beverages from $1 billion in 1990 to $26 billion in 2013 has encouraged many aspiring entrepreneurs to start organic or natural foods bus…
BloombergObama Urges Business Tax Rewrite to Help Spur New JobsBloombergPresident Barack Obama, prodding Congress to consider fresh economic proposals after two years of gridlock, called for restructuring business taxes so long as the initial revenue g…
Data For Dummies, What Does Your Small Business Need? (Part 1)ForbesIf you are a small business owner you are aware that data is being collected about you and data is available about your customers. In fact many small business owners don't realize …
Boston GlobeAppeal of weekend train to Cape Cod is growingBoston GlobeElizabeth Wurfbain, executive director of the Hyannis Main Street Business Improvement District, said the train has introduced a new group of people to Hyannis — young bicycle enth…
RigzoneHess selling energy marketing business for $1.03BUSA TODAYNEW YORK (AP) — Hess is selling its energy marketing business to a subsidiary of Centrica PLC for approximately $1.03 billion. The sale is part of Hess' plan to focus on its explora…
AFPPfizer Settles Marketing Case Dating to Wyeth ConductFox BusinessPfizer earlier this year completed the spinoff of its own animal health business into a new company called Zoetis, only months after selling off its nutritional products business. It a…
Small business contracting numbers inflated by errors and exclusions, data showWashington PostThe federal government is required by law to try to direct nearly a quarter of all contracting dollars to small businesses, and every year since 2005, officia…
No Business Is Too Small for HackersFox BusinessWhether it's a state sponsored cyber war, a hactivist or your run of the mill hacker, small business owners have to be prepared if their computer resources go down. Most small businesses would survive…