Connect with your audience
BOSTON - Sharing a little something of yourself in the form of personal stories can help even a fledgling public speaker connect better with the audience, says Harvard Business Review.
A club in China to help entrepreneurs go overseas
BEIJING - Chinese entrepreneur Feng Jun tried five times to set up overseas branches to market his MP3 players and other consumer electronics goods. Three of the branches made money, the other two failed, but he said they were all a "total headache."
State regulators warn companies on crowdfunding
- Some entrepreneurs are becoming so anxious to sell securities in their companies through crowdfunding sites that they are courting investors before federal rules allowing the process are in place, a state securities regulator said on Wednesday.
Lawson Products cuts jobs, has new credit facility
- Industrial products distributor Lawson Products Inc , facing growing competition and sliding sales, said it would eliminate about 100 jobs and take other steps including cutting marketing and shipping costs to save about $20 million a year.
Firms slow to move as global urban growth booms
LONDON - Businesses are failing to conduct forensic research needed to capitalize on a wave of urbanization across emerging economies that is unprecedented in its speed and scale, McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) said on Thursday.
Zynga plans to build a gamers' social network
SAN FRANCISCO - Zynga Inc unveiled a social network for gamers dubbed "Zynga with Friends" on Tuesday, hoping to wean itself from a longstanding, symbiotic relationship with Facebook Inc that has shaped two of Silicon Valley's closely watched Internet companies. | Video
Zumba no longer just exercise, it's big business
MIAMI - Alberto Perez started out as a street performer and then an aerobics teacher in Colombia, making extra cash on the side teaching the wives of businessmen how to dance in nightclubs in his hometown, Cali.
Italy's business capital Milan seeks start-ups
MILAN - Milan has asked the Rome government for tax breaks on new start-up companies in the area, in a bid to attract fresh investments and maintain its role as Italy's business capital.
From cuisine to circuses, summer camps target bored kids
HIGHGATE, Vermont - Ten-year-old Max Oreck had been planning to spend much of his summer vacation playing computer games and watching television.
Number of U.S. businesses fell in 2010: Census Bureau
WASHINGTON - The number of U.S. businesses with paid employees fell for a third straight year in 2010, but the rate of decrease slowed, the Census Bureau said on Tuesday.
Tech Tonic checks in with HealthTap
HealthTap wants to make visits to the doctor's office a thing of the past.
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