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Could the ultimate smart gadget for accessing the Web, messaging and making phone calls be…a pair of eyeglasses? We may know by the end of the year.

Business owners can save a ton of estate taxes by kicking the bucket this year rather than next. But there are less drastic solutions.

Forget Jeremy Lin. The hottest question of the week was, "Are entrepreneurs feeling optimistic?" One good thing about being the soul of free enterprise, the best hope of innovation, and the lone source of new job creation in the U.S. economy: It makes people attentive to your moods

No, not because Buffett said so. Because 2012 could be a year in which paying more now could mean paying less later

Seattle-based sports equipment manufacturer K2 has produced top-of-the-line skis for the last four decades, and this year it has teamed up with BMW M, the German brand’s high-performance sector, to develop the K2 LTD. BMW M Design Edition.

A new survey shows that business owners, as usual, are more optimistic than everyone else. Here's why that's no longer a sign that they're crazy. Small businesses owners – as a group – may be the most irrationally exuberant people in the nation right now

There's no such thing as too much employee recognition.

It’s the size of five football pitches and generates light 10 billion times brighter than the sun. As the Diamond Light Source celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, Penny Bailey visits one of the UK’s biggest scientific investments to see how it works.

In the 30 years since In Search of Excellence was published, critics have found flaws in its methodology, its content, and even its writing style.

Happy Groundhog Day! Today is the day each year in which we look towards a giant rodent to find out how much more winter we’ll have to endure. This year, we probably know the answer: winter hasn’t been very wintery, even for Los Angeles

This Valentine’s Day, La Maison du Chocolat is thinking outside the heart-shaped box with four new chocolate confections handcrafted with exotic fruits, spices, and cocoa beans from around the world.

Drybar closes a $16 million investment to help with expansion while its biggest competitor marches into its territory.

The next time humans set foot on the moon, they may well plant a five-starred red flag there. The Chinese space program is developing rapidly, and further progress should come this year when taikonauts, a colloquial term for Chinese astronauts, visit the Tiangong-1 space module. [More]

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The giant consumer technology firm revealed in its "Apple Supplier Responsibility Report" for 2012, available for perusal here , that it had carried out 229 individual audits among its diverse and largely secrecy-shrouded supplier chain. Looking for responsible behavior across all aspects of its business, Apple paid attention to labor and human rights, health and safety, environmental impact and more ephemeral aspects like ethics and business practices