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Think bars are just for unwinding after work? I built one right in my office.

Women are starting businesses at a record rate, but the number that break a million in revenues is flat. What's up with that? The start-up rate of women-owned businesses is soaring while the number in the big leagues—well above $1 million in revenue—is stagnating, according to The American Express OPEN State of Women-Owned Businesses Report .

In a 2006, season 2 episode of The Office entitled "Drug Testing," Dwight Schrute interrogates his fellow employees about the partially smoked joint he found in the parking lot.

A NCAA basketball brackets pool is a great way for employees to bond. It can also be a great way for a careless boss to get in trouble. The NCAA basketball tournament, better known as March Madness, is here again.

Forgot about National Employee Appreciation Day?

Expect zero sleep, testy employees, and tech glitches you never could have anticipated. Here's how GetHired.com made it through. When I first met Suki Shah, who was wearing a red sweater to make himself stand out in a crowd, there was little outward indication of the treadmill he had been on over the last week

Meet Doug Ludlow, CEO of the postcard site Hipster, whose viral marketing campaigns have almost overshadowed the product itself.

Home to a burgeoning concentration of tech start-ups and incubators, Detroit's "Webward Avenue" is not just a street--it's also a movement. Can it transform Detroit

The first-ever satellite office for the United States Patent and Trademark Office will open in July. Here's what it means for Detroit. When David Kappos took over the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 2009, he faced a seemingly insurmountable task: The office was dealing with a backlog of more than 750,000 patent applications, with an average wait time of three-to-four years.

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.bigbody a {color:#008CB3;} .bigbody img {display:inline-block;width:100px;vertical-align:top;} .bigbody p {display:inline-block;width:480px;vertical-align:top;} Tim Quirk Head of Android global content programming, Google The Long Earth, by Terry Pratchett "Pratchett, who's pretty much the Mark Twain of fantasy, is returning to his sci-fi roots. Speaking of Twain, where is volume two of the autobiography he wouldn't allow to be published until 100 years after his death?"

My clients are just like yours: They want to Skype, email and text. But here's why you still need face time. When the daily avalanche of emails and voice messages gets overwhelming, it’s so tempting to retreat to my office and start typing replies and returning phone calls

It is easier than ever for your customers to find your competitors. Make sure they do not need to

You're in an epic battle against distractions--and most of the time you're on the losing side.

After a couple dozen successes, Howard Tullman is building Flashpoint Academy, which he calls the front seat of the world stage. From the moment he queues up a movie, boots his computer, and hits the treadmill at 4 a.m.—unfathomably refreshed after three hours' sleep—Tullman is a blur. By 8 a.m., having consumed several newspapers, watched half a film (he sees about 120 a year for professional reasons), and cleared his first 100 e-mails, he arrives at Tribeca Flashpoint Academy, the showplace digital-media-arts college he built one summer in Chicago while all the normal people were at the beach