Evidence

Small business can literally be a heavy burden to bear. Here’s how to lose weight and boost your productivity in 2012.

AT&T bows to pressure from anti-trust watchdogs and spikes its $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile. Also: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce gets owned by Chinese hackers.

This past year was a tumultuous one for small businesses. Check out the top 13 events of the year, and why they mattered to small businesses.

Wendy's turns Twitter to a good cause, but McDonald's recent foray into social media doesn't turn out quite as well.

Senate Repubs block a payroll tax-cut extension by claiming that a related millionaire surtax would hurt job creation. But where's the evidence to support that claim?

Plan would require small businesses with more than $500,000 in annual "remote" sales to collect sales tax, putting a new administrative burden on e-tailers.

A European IT firm wants to boost productivity by banning internal email -- ALL internal email. It's an interesting effort, but it's also completely impractical.

It's never good business to offend potential customers. But it seems like Chick-fil-A never got the memo.

Bank of America and other big banks are killing unpopular new debit-card fees. Yet it's a safe bet that they'll recover that revenue one way or another.

The New Yorker says “Big Is Beautiful” and small businesses have been overhyped. But like other critics of small businesses, they’re missing the point.

A legal battle can be an enormous test of financial and emotional endurance. To make sure you're up for it, take these 10 steps before filing your lawsuit.

There is substantial evidence to indicate a direct correlation between continuing education and consistently high achievement.

PayPal is holding onto your money and not letting go. It may be legal, but it's still sleazy -- and there's very little victims of the policy can do about it....

China is increasingly viewed as an economic competitor rather than a partner. But that there's still room for both countries to benefit from closer trade ties.

You know the economy is in rough shape when dollar stores are the hottest properties in the nation's retail sector.

Carjacking isn't common, but when it happens it can be very dangerous. Do you take the same precautions when driving that you take to protect your place of business?

The search giant’s market share continues to slip. What's more, anecdotal evidence shows Bing users are better engaged -- and more likely to buy stuff.

There are a lot of ways to beat brain-killing jetlag. But I think the most effective one is just getting out and spending some time in the sun.

There's more evidence that tablets deliver a significant productivity boost. How significant? Enough, perhaps, to save a struggling small business.