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Federal health officials are warning against eating Colorado-grown cantaloupe.

Can you build a long-term business on other people's platforms? Illustration by Brian Staufferr The oxpecker is an African bird that ekes out a living from the ticks that live on the backs of rhinoceroses. I imagine even it would be embarrassed by Zynga 's dependency on Facebook.

We will help you make sense of your broadband options and which technology will be a good fit for your business. Deciding whether to fire an unproductive employee?

The oil and gas industry hardly innovates! They just dig up oil! Who cares? Actually, I care and I believe that you should, too. I’m so interested in this that I’ve been interviewing innovative professionals in the oil and gas industry.

How one Inc. 5,000 CEO coped with losing his largest customer, and why it helped his company grow Losing a big client can spell disaster for a start-up. For Tiempo Development , it spelled opportunity

What makes a product magnetic--irresistible to customers of many stripes, and preferred over its closest competitor by 5:1, 7:1 or 10:1?

Entrepreneurs are often ousted from the companies they start. Management experts weigh in on why founder succession happens, and how you can avoid it. In July, Etsy CEO Rob Kalin was moved out of the top spot at the handmade goods retail website he founded in 2005.

There's a whole industry devoted to promulgating the myth that all an entrepreneur needs is perseverance, creative genius, and hard work. Ries learned the hard way this isn't true

Kim Kardashian knows how to stay on message, to amplify that message through partners, and to make everything look beautiful. Here are 10 lessons from her communications juggernaut that managers should adopt to make their initiatives succeed

LinkedIn's new "Volunteer Experience and Causes" feature, launching today, encourages users to tout their selfless deeds to land better jobs.

A photo series from photographer Julie Hassett Sutton shows trucks as objects of art, cruising through the beautiful frozen landscape of Montana. When you think of the transportation of global trade, you picture giant container ships, flying cargo planes, or endless trains loaded with shipping containers. What you may forget (unless you're driving on an interstate highway) is that 18-wheeler trucks move a vast amount of freight in this country.

The CEO of Ritas Italian Ice says franchising your business starts with finding the right partners.

We live in a time of two economies.

Five tips on beating out the competition and making your business stickier The ease with which Google+ is now competing with Facebook for mindshare has me thinking about barriers to entry. Warren Buffett famously invests in businesses with what he calls a protective "moat" around them, meaning that they have some protection from competition that allows them to control their pricing. Big companies lock out their competitors by out-slugging them in capital infrastructure investments (anyone care to compete against CN Rail)