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Steven Spielberg’s animated feature The Adventures of Tintin opened this week, closing out another year full of big-budget movies based on comic books and graphic novels. Tintin joins properties like Captain America, X-Men, Green Lantern, Cowboys and Aliens, and Thor in the seemingly endless cavalcade of four-color characters to make it to the big screen. And 2011 was a relatively light year

As Aston Martin reconsiders its AMR-One LMP1 sports car racing project, Jaeger-LeCoultre’s new AMVOX5 World Chronograph LMP1 ($20,900) continues waving the green flag.

As Aston Martin reconsiders its AMR-One LMP1 sports car racing project, Jaeger-LeCoultre’s new AMVOX5 World Chronograph LMP1 ($20,900) continues waving the green flag. Engineered with an easy-to-read, highly accurate chronograph paired with a world time function, the 250-piece limited edition is the latest model to emerge from the seven-year collaboration. ...

Fix your passwords, safeguard against email break-ins, and theft-proof your devices before that cup of joe gets cold. As long as we’ve had computers and gadgets, there’s been a tension between security and ease of use.

Fix your passwords, safeguard against email break-ins, and theft-proof your devices before that cup of joe gets cold. As long as we’ve had computers and gadgets, there’s been a tension between security and ease of use. On one extreme, there are the passwords that are so complex you intentionally can’t remember them, and emails that involve sending an encryption key to your recipients

General Mills is moving its open innovation efforts to the digital world. With G-WIN Digital, the food company is looking for your gaming and mobile ideas

On Black Friday, Patagonia ran a full-page ad in The New York Times telling consumers not to buy one of their jackets because it takes so much water and energy to make. This was one element of the company's Common Threads initiative, a brilliant brand-within-a-brand that offers a roadmap for companies trying to promote themselves as environmentally friendly

On a summer day in 1975, I stepped up the tee at the Liberty Country Club .

Professional basketball is run by smart businesspeople. So why do they think they're exempt from the law of supply and demand? The NBA lockout came about because the league won’t admit that it has the same problem as football, hockey and baseball: Too many teams for the customer base to support

E-readers work dandy for straight stories, but some books demand the traditional treatment: lush photos, glossy pages, and a heft that commands considered travel. God bless the flip-worthy, full-color coffee-table book. Whether you're shopping for a foodie, design geek, or facial-hair devotee, we've picked a few of our recent favorites.

Stan Richards is the mastermind behind the biggest independently owned ad agency in the nation. Weve gathered some of The Richards Groups greatest hits, as well as one that missed the mark. Here are a dozen of the best-loved advertising campaigns that came from the shop of Stan Richards, the disciplinarian mastermind behind The Richards Group, the nation’s biggest independently owned ad agency

Every business runs into deadbeat customers. Here's how to make sure they don't take advantage of you.

Every business runs into deadbeat customers.

Break Media's new site, TuVez, is aimed at Hispanic males. Here's how it's been growing fast while navigating a complex new market

People aren't so gung-ho about smart meters, but they are about electric vehicles. But when they realize that combining the two can lead to huge savings, things might change. With so many promised benefits to the adoption of smart grid solutions, I have been conducting a lot of research lately on why it has taken so long to get the smart grid on track in North America.