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Taking steps to improve profitability can actually help you to increase customer value and build brand equity. Every business has a break-even volume on their product line.

Rufflebutts founder Amber Schaub reinvented the bloomers from her youth, which led to a full-fledged childrens apparel company she now runs with her husband. As we process applications for the 2012 Inc.

For good or bad, from 1980-2010, North America lost some of its oil production edge. Thirty (two) years ago, this region of the world represented 20% of the world’s crude oil production

Despite major oil finds off Brazil's coast, new fields in North Dakota and ongoing increases in the conversion of tar sands to oil in Canada , fresh supplies of petroleum are only just enough to offset the production decline from older fields. At best, the world is now living off an oil plateau--roughly 75 million barrels of oil produced each and every day--since at least 2005, according to a new comment published in Nature on January 26. ( Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.) That is a year earlier than estimated by the International Energy Agency--an energy cartel for oil consuming nations

RALEIGH, N.C. Does writing about climate change or childhood vaccinations necessarily mean you’ve got an agenda? That’s one of the questions tackled at last week’s ScienceOnline 2012 meeting, a gathering of some 450 scientists, bloggers, scientist-bloggers, journalists and other communicators on the campus of North Carolina State University.

RALEIGH, N.C. Bone-hunters and anthropologists typically guard their fossils as priceless specimens.

In the Wild, Wild West-era of digital media, there is no cowboy quite like Kim Dotcom. Part Sean Parker, part Kevin Mitnick, with a whiff of Notorious B.I.G., Dotcom embodies the most savage age of online piracy, having made a fortune on the edges of Internet freedom. Dotcom, the megamind behind Megaupload , was arrested yesterday in New Zealand, his panic-room door busted down by officials, who found the hacker

Is the economic turmoil overseas a crisis--or an opportunity? Here's a look at a few savvy American companies reaping the benefits of European market instability

A retailer expanding its locations holds lessons for any growth-oriented company. In our previous article, The Secret to Retail Store Profitability , we discussed a retailer client that was unsure whether to expand or close its three-store chain of French clothing boutiques.

Shazam's future involves applying its discovery engine to television and all of the brands that flow through it, says CEO Andrew Fisher. And it could be as simple as a button on your channel flipper

At Kohort, we take a cue from theater and comedy to generate new ideas--and enhance morale. Once a company starts operating, brainstorming often falls by the wayside.

Bats have an image problem.

How one retailer discovered the secret to expanding from three to 15 stores profitably.

How one retailer discovered the secret to expanding from three to 15 stores profitably.

Simpa Networks, the latest company by former Microsoft employee Paul Needham, is introducing pay-as-you-go solar power to rural India.