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In defense of Groupon, tech investors, small business hiring, a new mobile payment app worth knowing about, and how to handle a request for a raise. The Rib Man responds.

The pen and paper are losing their dominance in boardrooms across North America. Instead, workers are meeting with iPads in tow. While the laptop is often considered to be an intrusive device on the table, since the mere opening of the screen partially blocks its owner, Apple's slick tablet is a much more welcome face

J.K. Rowling has segments of the Interwebs alive with intrigue over the new site Pottermore.com , and this content-enhanced YouTube page, which goes far and above your usual smart ad. We'll find out Wednesday morning what it's all about

If you are starting up a company and find yourself pitching everything that walks upright these days, please watch this video called "Hardly Working, Start-up Guys." Clearly the folks at CollegeHumor are embellishing for the sake of parody, but boy do they offer a reality check. So how about you? Are you a start-up jerk

With the deadline for an important business-related opportunity looming, I began my day today with a sinking sensation in my heart and stomach. I have been tossing ideas around for well over a week now, and none of them stood out.

"Street Smarts" columnist and senior contributing editor Norm Brodsky is a veteran entrepreneur who has founded and built six businesses.

As much as I love all kind of cuisines, I'm not all that familiar with Singaporean food—I had nasi goreng and hainanese chicken for the first time just last year. But now I'm officially obsessed: A mouthwatering combination of Malaysian, Chinese, Indonesian, Indian and British traditions, its flavors are bright, complex, and unlike anything else

Wardrobe dilemma: How does one dress for the swanky, Havana-themed Publisher's Party at the Top of Mt. Aspen while still keeping warm?

Digital security firm Symantech has discovered a new type of viral exploit that tries to crack open a user's Bitcoin wallet and steal its contents--the virtual answer to the old-fashioned bank heist. But what's a Bitcoin, and why would anyone want one when there are gold bricks and paper dollars still ripe for a swindle?

As Stephen Hawking once said: "Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-generated robots will take over our world." So what developments in robotics happened this week? Robot breakfast We've seen research roboticists perform various odd tricks with their robots, but this one takes the pancake

People love to prognosticate about how the world will power itself in the future. But only one person can be right. Here's some of the possible ways the next 50 years might turn out.

When your company needs to use a process, concept, toolor really anything that's protected by a patent, copyright, or trademarkhere's how to license it, and avoid legal trouble. The world of intellectual property has suffered a shake up in the Internet age

Is a boozy breakfast good for a conference? Plus, how a TV celebrity chef wins stomachs in real life. Wine at 10 a.m.

South Korea is already light years ahead of the U.S.