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Austin may be a top choice for growth, jobs, and quality of life, but as usual there's more to the story for companies and workers thinking of moving there.

A historic dry spell in many states is likely to impact everything from food prices to tourism.

Connecticut has become the first state to mandate paid sick leave for workers. Is this yet-another burden or actually good medicine for small business?

Are you aware of your consumer rights? Learn the five ways you can empower yourself during National Consumer Protection Week.

It is a perfect storm. Very cold Winters in the U.S. and Europe putting pressure on heating oil supplies and costs, increased crude oil demand in China, and end of the year reductions...

And energy is frequently difficult to muster during tough financial times. Bank balances, payroll costs, and vendor bills are often as draining on an owner's energy as they are on a bank account....

The real point here is McDonald's to blame for a child's weight and sature? Is Burger King the culprit? Or, is Mar the perfect example of modern day parenthood: Blaming everyone else, especially...

Sweat in restaurant kitchens is a very sticky subject. It is hardly appealing to see a chef dripping with seat especially when preparing food. Worse, it is less appetizing when a server sweats...

A host of tools, including TerrAlign, RegioGraph, AlignStar, and ProAlign, is available to help sales managers with territory management and optimization.

Whenever we began a project we would think of an idea. We would then begin to develop the concep Then the adventure began. Exploring concepts and comparing them to ours and extracting design...

The law's author, Ken Yeager claims that by taking the toys away children will not want to eat unhealthy food. Yeager claims food chains and marketers use the toys to entice kids to...

Several communities around the country are conducting drives this week to gather and collect "e-waste"

You'll need to learn the laws regarding sales tax, use tax, and business and occupation tax for any state in which you plan to operate.

Does a person's choice in meals mean that we need the government to ban the toys, count the calories, publish the fat content, place salt on the illegal drug list and organize the...

Hoover's Editors analyze the state of the largest corporations in some of the cities that made Forbes.com's dubious list of America's Most Miserable Cities.

I’d like to focus on several pieces of technology, the importance of back ups, and one piece of technology I wish I had.

If you decide to contract with the government, beware these pitfalls.

President Obama asked Congress to raise the caps on small business loans, hopefully making it easier to borrow money to buy a franchise.

The buzz on the other side of the Mayacamas, in Napa, is the town has hit a home run by enticing three stars to open restaurants in the new Riverfront Development that everyone...