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Apple employs about 25,000 Americans from sea to shining sea. That sounds pretty good until you consider that the iPod/iPhone/iPad revolution has created some 250,000 jobs in China. Here's a modest proposal: bring those manufactoring jobs home, Apple

Check out the famous BBQ chain of Austin, Texas, Salt Lick Bar-B-Que , while waiting for your flight at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. The menu reads like a Southern comfort food Bible: beef, pork, sausage, and turkey. Choose from sandwiches or full plates—and don't forget the sides, which include baked beans, coleslaw, and potato salad

Why relationship building on the golf course may be as important as ever for business networking. We live in a hyper-connected society, and being disconnected for four hours if you're in sales or marketing can be daunting—and seem like a major loss of time

TripIt continues to lead the pack in organizing travel itineraries. By pulling all of your plans together in one place and making them accessible across all your devices, TripIt is a complete solution. Purchased by popular corporate travel site Concur in January for $120 million, it only continues to improve.

New program lets users earn deals for tweeting and posting to Facebook. If you are a socially savvy business traveler like Shaun Koiner, the first thing you do when you land is scan the e-mails you received while in transit, check-in on Facebook and Foursquare as you deplane, and look for breaking news on Twitter as you ride to your destination.

What items can't you live without on the road? Inc. asked readers what technology and comforts they can't live without when crossing the country for business travel.

If you work with or are expanding to foreign markets, it's important for your employees to have access to language education. We've found five engagingand freethat can start your company down the path to fluency. Yes, there's an app for that.

Meet the 2.0 car service: Uber is a start-up that lets you book a stylish ride from a smartphone app. Imagine your flight arrives four hours later than expected.

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The Power Dinner: This is where we want to go to pop some corks, get pampered, and celebrate deals, promotions, partnerships in style, without stuffiness. And if you happen to spot a luminary or two a few tables away, even better. These restaurants are our top picks.

Golf remains one of the best ways to nurture business relationships, near your office or on the road. But when you travel to play with business connections, it's important to bring the comforts of home in terms of golf gear. Here are six different products business travelers can't golf and travel without

As a recent addition to the Las Vegas Strip, the Cosmopolitan has taken a different approach to social media from the start. The hotel's website launched March 15, 2010, six months before the hotel opened.

It might be time to rethink your laptop. The 3.3-pound ThinkPad, which had a battery life of 6.5 hours after fully charged, aced our Photoshop test, applying a Liquify effect, used for retouching photos, in 44 seconds. Video looked crisp on the 12.5-inch screen.

This new financial district hotel has a 1,450-square-foot gym with boxing stations and yoga equipment, plus stationary bikes and elliptical machines. The hotel can arrange special workouts as well, including a sunset yoga session overlooking the Hudson River

On her wedding day , in the summer of 2002, Kathy Cohen reached into her makeup bag to freshen up and found a red, slimy mess of melted lipstick.