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Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference starts next week with a Tim Cook keynote, so the rumor mill is spinning frantically.

The United States Postal Service has banned all international shipments of electronics with lithium batteries effective May 16. The cost for families to send gadgets via private parcel service to enlisted loved ones in some countries could almost quadruple. Starting on May 16, new United States Postal Service (USPS) regulations will prohibit iPads, Kindles, smartphones, and other electronics with lithium batteries from being mailed to overseas troops or foreign customers.

Which problem-solving technique do you use? Here's four examples--as well as what each conveys about you and your company (for better or worse). As a business owner, employer, and customer, nothing irks me more than lousy problem-solving skills

How an emotional investment leads to a physical purchase, and why iPhone apps are Gillette 2.0. When I first began shaving at the tender young age of 16, I chose a Gillette razor. It seemed far cooler than my father’s buzzing electric shaver.

Negotiating is not about sealing the deal, but framing the optimal relationship. Sometimes that's impossible

Negotiating is not about sealing the deal, but framing the optimal relationship. Sometimes that's impossible. When you start negotiating—to hire someone, to put a partnership together—it's human nature to want to seal the deal

Gifford's ice cream has been a New England institution for decades. Will its super-vivid new packaging help it go national or alienate existing customers? Gifford's ice cream has been a New England institution since the family-owned creamery, based in Skowhegan, Maine, opened its first ice cream stand, in 1980.

Sometimes innovation is as simple as turning a ketchup bottle upside down. But what about putting bug repellent in clothing or carbonation in milk? It's convergence culture gone wild.

Growing up we’re always told that it’s what’s on the inside that counts. And while that’s certainly true with respect to personal integrity, I’ve learned that when it comes to beverages, if your label doesn’t catch peoples’ attention, they may not get the chance to taste what’s inside. (Unless of course you have a sampling team in the store, which is still our primary marketing strategy.) One of my favorite ways to test the effectiveness of our labels is walking into a store and seeing if I can spot our brand in a cooler in the back.

Once relegated to the domain of only large companies, business intelligence software is getting easier to implement by small and medium businesses that want to better analyze their data. People have been looking at data to bolster business since the beginning of, well, business. Go way, way back and a Roman sandal-clad street merchant 2,000 years ago might have noticed over time that he gets about a dozen more customers buying his wares on the days when he puts a canopy over his wagon as a shield from the hot midday sun.

U.S. products almost certainly have a market across the pond.

Two Northland, New Zealand–based lodges and golf courses, Kauri Cliffs and the Farm at Cape Kidnappers, along with their sister property Matakauri Lodge, are offering the new Ultimate New Zealand Golf Package for approximately $6,700 to $10,400 per person. Each of the three lodges is hosting guests for three nights ...

Inc. magazine editor-at-large Leigh Buchanan gazes back at the past 15 years of editorial content, and walks us through the highlights. I joined Inc

A team at Bing gathers every few weeks to select the photos that will appear on the homepage each day. Here's what they're looking for

There’s a new way to experience truffle season at Hotel Principe di Savoia in Milan.