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Court Overturns Law Allowing Guns at Work

The ruling will prevent employees from keeping firearms in their cars while parked on company property.  Read story

Banks Become Main Target of Defrauded Investors

February 17, 2005 --Who's at fault for the Internet boom and bust of a few years ago? Investors, bankers, and companies involved in the bu...  Read story

Credit Card Laundering Is Dirty Business

Credit card laundering, sometimes referred to as "factoring," works like this: A company that does not have a credit card merchant account with a bank or ...  Read story

The Name Of The Game

The year was 1971, and Ralph Anspach, a San Francisco State University economics professor, was sitting in his Berkeley home, playing Monopoly with his se...  Read story

New Legal Privilege for Your PR firm

At the first sign of trouble, call a lawyer--and have that lawyer dial a publicist.  Read story

Tax Battle Moves to Supreme Court

Ohio business owners argue that large corporations should not receive state tax incentives.  Read story

Fast-Sinking Star

After making the #1 spot on the 1996 Inc. 500, multilevel marketer Bill Gouldd slid and folded in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.  Read story

An Ounce Of Prevention

Many companies are rethinking -- and rewriting -- personnel policies to help head off employee lawsuits.  Read story

On Ownership And Justice

INC.'s story "Feuding Families" (January) referred to Oakland Scavenger Co. as "a company for Italians; no others need apply." In fact, over 41% of the co...  Read story

FTC Takes Action Against First Do-Not-Call List Violator

May 4, 2004 --The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took its first action against violators of the do-not-call list today. The FTC has filed ...  Read story

Thanks, But No Thanks

Why to avoid taking out a merchant cash advance.  Read story

Can You Spot the Real Utube?

Millions of Web surfers couldn't, so now there's a lawsuit.  Read story

A Small Businessman Challenges The Big Banks

Jackie Kleiner claimed fraud when an Atlanta bank said his loan was at the "prime rate."  Read story

InPhonic's Missed Connections

Why being No. 1 on the Inc. 500 and selling more cell phones on the Internet than anyone else wasn't enough.  Read story

Born-again Steel

David Houck worked for Big Steel all his life -- until the mill shut down. . .  Read story

Whipped!

When tiny Henri's Foods took on Kraft's Miracle Whip salad dressing, it didn't know what it was getting into. Then again, neither did Kraft.  Read story

"they Took My Name But They Didn't Get My Goat"

Taylor Wine Company prevented Walter S. Taylor from using his name on his own wines. Says Walter  Read story

Blind Ambition

Two companies fight over the patent rights to fiber optic HDTV (high-definition television).  Read story

Sugar Ray Leonard's Toughest Fight

The six-time champ is trying to build a business, promote a new generation of fighters, and clean up his sullied sport. It's not as easy as it sounds.  Read story

High Noon in Aisle Five

If Rupert Murdoch's boys rode into your company's territory, what would you do: run for the hills or stay and fight? In the tradition of Gary Cooper's greate...  Read story

Fear Of Franchising

How Carol Brothers seduced the press, the industry, and scores of franchisees with the false promise of 'the next McDonald's'  Read story

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