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Apple! A year ago analysts were tripping over themselves to raise their price targets. This year, they're tripping over themselves to lower their price targets. A year ago, the stock was flying to the moon. This year the...

Home sales in the Triangle increased 15 percent in February as the market maintained strong momentum heading into the busiest selling season of the year. But the extended stretch of… Click to Continue »

The horror continues.  Thousands of dead pigs are still turning up in Shanghai's Huangpu river, after hundreds of carcasses were initially discovered last Thursday.   The number of dead pigs is now up to 5,916, aut...

Stressed, white swans can be vicious fighters.  I’ve witnessed a pair on my pond drive off an invading pair, biting, flapping and hissing hysterically.

Although the History Channel’s reality TV show Pawn Stars is entertaining, it reinforces a number of potentially harmful negotiating tactics.

Marissa Mayer’s management style is in the news yet again. Reuters is reporting that the Yahoo CEO, who caused a stir recently after banning her employees from working from home, is now personally involving hersel...

The current research and development tax credit does nothing for entrepreneurs. A proposed law could change that.

Facebook has made some pretty significant changes to its web platform since launching back in 2004.  What started off as a place for college students to connect with each other has grown into the world's largest socia...

It was on a trip to Israel 2 years ago when I started asking myself the following question: “If I had accomplished everything I wanted in life, how would I feel?  And what if I let myself feel that now, while I�...

It's been some 16 years since Clay Christensen published "The Innovator's Dilemma" and brought the concept of disruptive innovation to the wider world. Despite that, many companies and executives still haven't managed to...

Google is paying nearly $15 million in bonuses to four of the Internet search company's top executives for their performances last year. Click to Continue »

A tax-preparation software glitch caused more than 600,000 returns to be filed incorrectly, delaying refunds by as much as six weeks, the IRS tells MarketWatch.

I have a badass career. I fly an EMS helicopter in Alaska. But here's the thing: I don't really think of myself as badass. I just think of myself as a normal person who has a really cool office.

Guest Post Patent trolling is putting a significant strain on innovation, and its time to change the system.

Smart organizations are learning that they gain a great deal when they make it possible for new parents and workers with family responsibilities to slow down temporarily without being thrown from their top career track.

Lenders are willing to originate larger loans to Europe's real-estate companies, and a few are venturing into more-troubled economies such as Spain and Italy.

The US airline regulator approves a set of fixes to the battery of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, clearing the way for the aircraft to resume flights.

Hiring people is perhaps the most difficult job a manager has. A bad fit can be incredibly expensive in terms of salary, lost productivity, and the eventual cost of searching for a new candidate.  Even bad hires can p...

As a successful software engineer living in the suburbs of Minnesota, Travis Pizel never had an income problem. Along with his wife, Vonnie, the couple pulled in a cool six figures each year, more than enough to provide ...

The British Serious Fraud Office (SFO), which is said to be investigating Autonomy on charges of fraud, is also an Autonomy customer.

This chart comes from Business Insider Intelligence, a new research and and analysis service focused on the mobile and Internet industries. Sign up for a free trial here. A persistent, if often unspoken, belief in the de...