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A Chief Digital Officer for New York
City picks entrepreneur to lead digital efforts. Meet Rachel Sterne. The 27-year-old entrepreneur was tapped by New York City Mayor Michael Bloombe... Read more
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Federal Cash for Infrastructure Slow to Flow
A year and a half after Congress voted for $862 billion in stimulus funds, huge chunks of it are still waiting to be spent. Read more
Text Polling
With a week before the election, Bush and Kerry are now in a statistical dead heat in national polls by Harris Interactive, Reuters/Zogby and the Washingt... Read more
Advertise Wisely: Less Can Be More
The fact that you don't have the budget to support half-page newspaper ads doesn't mean you should resign yourself to obscurity. In fact, since the newsp... Read more
Building a Better Hotel Lobby
Marriott International is following the lead of Sheraton and totally revamping its hotel lobbies, according to Read more
More Lost Data
A major U.S. financial institution has lost critical customer data, once again. This week, it's Citigroup, and the tapes that have gone missing have SSNs,... Read more
The Boy Who Cried Boycott
Okay, what are we boycotting this time? "Remember when we were all supposed to quit Facebook?," asks TechCrunch blogger Read more
A Danish scam, deflation, and letdown at Macworld
High-flying Danish firm exposed as a sham. The Wall Street Journal has a Read more
The Entrepreneur's Wish List
Each day, Inc .'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: ... Read more
Debating Net Neutrality
Network neutrality is a hot topic these days, with some Congressional action on Internet regulation likely in the next few weeks. The question is, should ... Read more
Web Vipers
The Washington Post's TechNews.com has posted a good collection of short articles on com... Read more
The State of Small Business 1995
Inc.'s editor-in-chief profiles the writers appearing in this special annual report, The State of Small Business. Read more
The Business Owner's Bookshelf
30 books you should read and put to use Read more
Women Entrepreneurs rock the vote
File this under 'You read it here first': Soccer Moms and Nascar Dads are out as the hot swing voter. Women entrepreneurs are in. So reports the Read more
How to Cut Your Health Care Costs
Seven ways for businesses to lower health care costs . Even if President Obama signs health care reform legislation into law in the next few months,... Read more
Facebook's New Pledge On Privacy
It took awhile, but Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is finally using water instead of kerosene to put down the firestorm over recent changes in privacy setti... Read more
Let's Get Rid Of The Corporate Income Tax
Politicians talk boastfully about taxing wealthy corporations, when they are really just using smoke and mirrors to obfuscate the issue. Read more
The Old Spice Video Phenomenon
Behind the scenes of the Old Spice viral videos. If you haven't seen Old Spice's incredibly successful (and hilarious) attempt to translate its TV ... Read more
Small is Big in D.C.
Small employers are big news around the nation's capital these days. According to the Small Business Administration, businesses with fewer than 5... Read more
An Entrepreneur We Love Lands a TV Gig
Warren Brown is ready for his close up. The Washington, D.C., entrepreneur--who left a secure government job to start a cake bakery called Cake Love--has ... Read more
Everything Old Is New Again
Has the e-commerce bubble burst? If recent reports are to be believed, online business-to-consumer (B2C) businesses are in a slump. Stock prices of many l... Read more
Everything Old Is New Again
Has the e-commerce bubble burst? If recent reports are to be believed, online business-to-consumer (B2C) businesses are in a slump. Stock prices of many l... Read more
Can Brad Pitt Save an Independent Studio?
A reprieve for the Weinsteins? Most movie studio heads would have been popping bubbly over the opening of Inglorious Basterds this weekend. (The Qu... Read more
The Dark Side of Web Tracking
The Washington Post exposes a Read more
Are guest workers really necessary?
In an provocative and contrarian op-ed in today's Washington Post, Robert J. Samuelson challenges the idea that American industry really needs access to i... Read more
Snowe Supports Net Neutrality
The LA Times published an article today on how Maine Senator Olympia Snowe has become a pivotal advocate for net neutrality. Calling her "an unli... Read more
Contributors
Liz Welch has gotten glimpses into myriad entrepreneurial lives by shadowing CEOs for The Way I Work. For this issue, she learned what's inside Aut... Read more
The Next Big Ideas: Cool Products from the Coolest Young Entrepreneurs
The entrepreneurs featured on Inc.com's 30 Under 30 list this year have brought to market a variety of products. View slideshow
Who's Next
They are transforming the Web, empowering other start-ups, and turning your conference room into one big whiteboard. A sneak preview of the latest generation... Read more
A Nation of Bloggers, Thought-Tweets, and Finding a Bank
Don't watch the stock market. Doomsaying economist Nouriel Roubini throws a bit of cold water on recent predictions of an imminent economic recover... Read more
Murdoch Vs. Google; Dealing with Shady Shoppers
Murdoch's Google gambit shakes up the blogosphere . The Financial Times Read more
Calculating Startup Costs; Obama's Small-Biz PItch
How to calculate startup costs. The Wall Street Journal takes a page (literal... Read more
Business Hours
The term "business hours" refers to the "open" and "closed" schedule that a business determines for its operations. Small and large businesses adhere to a... Read more
Unmasking Mark Zuckerberg
The Early Word on the Facebook Book? "Solid Gold." On TechCrunch , Michae... Read more
Oprah Gets Psyched
How Oprah gets psyched for boardroom showdowns -- and other pearls overheard at the nation's top daylong conference of female execs. Read more
Barbarians at the Watergate
It may have taken awhile, but Washington society is finally adjusting to a new breed: the fast-moving, different-thinking, so very dot-com riche. Read more
Building America’s Most Innovative Brands
Harvard's guru on outstanding American entrepreneurship analyzes the country's best brands, ponders the challenges of Groupon-era consumer empowerment, and e... Read more
Credit Cards Forced to Play Nice and the Facebook IPO
The government has your back (unless you're a credit card company). Serious talks are underway within the Obama administration to set up a Read more
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