#Business

There's a reason why mothers shouldn't judge their children in beauty pageants, why chefs rarely run the business side of restaurants successfully, and...

Merchant tools on Foursquare are free and the company claims to want to always keep them that way. It's challenging for Foursquare to make money when they...

As the madness of the holiday season dies down and the New Year gains pace, retailers will renew the cycle of offering new attractions to entice shoppers...

Since 1958, there has been an increase in the need for business intelligence. It's nothing new, but in recent years it's been much more important as the...

In 2009, Google launched Places, an offering designed to take the place of its Local Business Center. Though it delivered dramatic improvements from day...

Small kids can use them just fine. They are more portable than a laptop, more powerful than a smartphone, and perform nearly every duty that a business...

$100,000,000,000. A one followed by 11 zeroes. Has social networking truly become so lucrative that Facebook's intention of launching their initial public...

No, it's not spam, but it is associated with a pork product. Search engine optimization has a bad name in many circles. It is synonymous with spamming...

It's hard to imagine the world without Facebook right now. Even people who aren't users are affected by it even if only because they are constantly...

Most businesses are getting involved in social media in some way. Whether for marketing, customer outreach, collaboration, or any of the many ways that...

As startup success stories go, few can compare to Instagram. When they were purchased by Facebook earlier this week, there weren't many people crying the...

There has been a conspicuous lack of news about Google Apps, their cloud-based business software division, over the past few months that was highlighted...

Things didn't look good for Bill Nguyen's latest startup, Color. They announced their funding on March 23rd of last year and by the next day there were...

The latest social media phenomenon to grab our attention (and engulf the attention of some) is Pinterest. It's getting the same type of attention that...

There is an inherent problem with the "daily deals" concept. At what point does saving money on items get trumped by buying too many items that we don't...

Startups are a big part of President Obama’s economic plan, with more than $48 billion in tax breaks earmarked for small companies creating jobs,...

For the last 3 or 4 years, social media has been the hot topic that businesses have been told will save them. It has come across as both a promise and a...

For most, Facebook is an internet tool for keeping up with our friends and family while broadcasting the "interesting" things that are happening in our...

Microsoft may be trying (and failing) to slow Google's emergence into business productivity with their Google Apps for Business, but Google is heading in...

It may not be the first time Microsoft has tried to use humor and aggressive attacks to go after Google, but this time it hits a little closer to home...

When Facebook started rolling out their plan to put online stores on their platform in November, 2010, many believed that "F-Commerce" was the next big...

If this is the future of retail, I'll be shopping online more often. Takashimaya, a department store in Tokyo, is working with Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro from...

In a great economy, it's hard to start a retail company and get attention in industries where the major players have already hit the field. Things are...

The internet is rife with theft. People take content and concepts from others on a regular basis and pawn it off as their own. It's so common that many...