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New Search Engine for Shoppers

Oct 31, 2006

Oct. 31, 2006 -- A new search engine, which launched today, plans to focus exclusively on shopping sites, indexing over 150 million produ...  Read story

Keep in Touch

Jan 1, 1997

Are your customers frustrated when they can't reach you? Do they have to be transferred three times before reaching the right person? Here's how three dif...  Read story

Translation Tool for Online Content

Jan 2, 2007

Jan. 2, 2007 -- SumTotal Systems, a Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of business-solution software, recently released a tool that ena...  Read story

Confab for Women Small-Business Owners

Jan 19, 2007

Jan. 19, 2007 -- Small-business owners from across the country are being invited to take part in this year's Entrepreneurial Skills Confe...  Read story

Time Is Money

By Inc Staff |  Sep 1, 1989

Boss gives employees paid time off to do volunteer work.  Read story

Minor Media

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Oct 1, 1992

Full-color glossy monthly written by and for kids.  Read story

An Online Networking Sampler

Jun 1, 2004

Web sites Friendster, Sunnyvale, Calif.: Popular free site is primarily for social, rather than ...  Read story

Play Ball

By Leslie Brokaw |  Aug 1, 1989

Start-up company is testing a system that will allow television viewers to predict sports plays via laptop computer.  Read story

Introducing The 1986 Inc. 100

By Virginia Inman |  May 1, 1986

Like a bunch of adolescents, the companies on the INC. 100 are an unsettled lot. They have grown so fast that their knees ache. They have consumed capit...  Read story

Web Shoppers Pickier

By Laura Palotie |  Mar 24, 2008

A survey finds consumers are spending more time checking out products online before buying them.  Read story

Internet Fax

By Robert A. Mamis |  Apr 1, 1994

Fax senders can save money by sending data across the Internet to relay volunteers.  Read story

In-Flight Networking

By Laura Palotie |  Jun 18, 2008

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read story

Mail

By Inc Staff |  Nov 1, 2007

The Inc. 500 Name Game Your annual list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies not only is great reading, but it also contains many imagina...  Read story

Venture Directories on Diskette

By Michael P. Cronin |  Jan 1, 1992

Various venture capital resource guides available on diskette.  Read story

Walking Bytes

By Leslie Brokaw |  Dec 1, 1989

Agilis Corp. introduces a new hand-held computer which can be networked via radio waves.  Read story

The Apple Tree

By Robert A. Mamis |  Aug 1, 1993

How Apple Computer contributed to the founding of more than 100 companies by its employees.  Read story

1-800-The-Web

By Joshua D. Macht |  Dec 15, 1996

A look at a new service that allows users to access Web pages with a common telephone by translating data to voice.  Read story

The Little Picture

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Apr 1, 1992

New business shrinks color-image files while maintaining near-perfect quality.  Read story

A Moving Picture Is Worth

By Inc Staff |  May 1, 1990

Company gets a better response from its direct mail campaign by sending out video catalogs.  Read story

Helpmate

By Leslie Brokaw |  Jan 1, 1991

Apple Computer funds start-up and gives itself nonexclusive license to manufacture the new company's technology.  Read story

Pint-size Computers

By Abby Solomon |  Mar 1, 1983

As of now, most portable computers are more deadweight than lightweight. Still, if you are looking for a complete business machine to go home to office, you ...  Read story

A New Chapter for E-Books

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Mar 15, 2000

After falling flat in the early 1990s, are digital books ready to fly? Entrepreneurs are betting that new technology is creating a legitimate market.  Read story

International: Cutting Foreign-Exchange Costs

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Mar 1, 1996

An accounts manager recalls how her company turned to a discount foreign-exchange service to improve profits.  Read story

Garbage In, Garbage Out

By Brian McWilliams |  Aug 1, 1996

Bankers and entrepreneurs explain why business-plan software can never deliver what it promises.  Read story

The Next Big Thing

By Fred Hapgood |  Mar 15, 1997

Animation may just add what's been missing from your Web site.  Read story

Large Mergers Could Signal Onset of Middle-Market Deals

By J.J. McCorvey |  Oct 7, 2009

Experts say the billion-dollar acquisitions represent a return of confidence in the economy.  Read story

Having Conquered Earth, Google Sets Its Sights on the Moon

By Peter Hoy |  Dec 20, 2006

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read story

Ask Inc.

By Inc Staff |  Apr 1, 2006

Doling out equity equitably; faster contract executions.  Read story

Let's Do Lunch

By Inc Staff |  May 1, 1990

CEO brings different segments of his company together over lunch in order to have them solve problems.  Read story

Meeting's at 9. I'll Be the One in Slippers

By John Grossmann |  May 15, 1998

Home-based businesses are gaining new legitimacy as affordable office technology levels the playing field and a growing number of downsized executives opt to...  Read story

Mail

By Inc Staff |  Oct 1, 2005

This month's letters to the editor.  Read story

Big Name Hunting

By John F. Persinos |  Dec 1, 1984

The cost of renting intellectual powers is going higher and higher. And the people bestowed with such powers are playing harder and harder to get. So, m...  Read story

Web Awards 2000: Judges

Nov 15, 2000

A list of the judges of the 2000 Inc. Web Awards.  Read story

Cashing In

By Ian Mount |  Aug 1, 2004

Profiles of four entrepreneurs who cashed in -- and what they bought.  Read story

Climbing To The Top Of The Charts

By Abby Solomon |  Sep 1, 1983

Microcomputer software sales are heading for the stratosphere. But the most popular programs aren't necessarily the best.  Read story

What They Do (and Don't) Teach You in Business School

By Hal Plotkin |  Dec 1, 1997

An M.B.A. will help you run an established business, but it can't provide the real-world experience needed to run a start-up. A look at when an M.B.A. comes ...  Read story

Hot Stuff

By John Case |  Oct 1, 2001

Is it finally time to jump on the alternative-energy bandwagon? Well, yes and no.  Read story

Profiles in Growth

By George Gendron |  May 1, 1993

Highlight of different characteristics of the CEOs of 1993 Inc. 100 companies.  Read story

Netscape's Small-Company Push

By Wendy Marx |  Dec 15, 1995

A quick overview of a new Internet product that will provide users with an on-line store right out of the box.  Read story

Small Talk

By Inc Staff |  May 15, 1996

Various entrepreneurs share their thoughts on the changing role of small businesses in the U.S.  Read story