A new fad, when interviewing candidates for a potential job, is to ask them ridiculous questions in an effort to figure out how they→

Watson was the IBM supercomputer that played against Ken Jennings on Jeopardy last year. IBM has just announced that the next application for Watson→

When demand is greater than supply, and you have some of the supply, you can always make money. Mashable has a story about one→

I don’t know how successful the new web application upstartly will be, but I like their message: Want to be 100% sure about your→

According to USA Today, millions of gift-wrapped iPads, Kindles, Nooks and other digital reading devices resulted in an unprecedented surge in sales of e-books→

Working in partnership with the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, YesPleaseMore aims to provide an economic development platform that gives participating creatives funding for→

If you get nervous when you think that someone is about to turn you down, whether in sales or in your other relationships, there’s→

Heads up, entrepreneurs! There’s increasing political interest for an Internet sales tax. Although we’ve seen calls for this in the past, the topic has→

When most people think of garage sales, they think of junk. However, that is not necessarily what comes to mind for Ben Weissenstein. As→

According to a story in Bloomberg Businessweek, the last time Ray Lopez bought a suit, Lehman Brothers was still standing. Now the managing partner→

You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a headline these days about the booming online sales this holiday season. Too bad it doesn’t→

Comcast’s just published its survey of consumer spending for the Cyber Monday that’s just passed: It was the single biggest day ever for shopping→

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CNet is reporting that according to ComScore, consumers spent $9.01 billion during the first three weeks of November, representing a 13 percent gain over→

Walmart ups the ante for holiday shopping. They have announced free shipping on 60,000 holiday items, including electronics, video games, toys, jewelry and furniture.→

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It’s a bit early yet for Black Friday ads to appear, but Walmart is hoping to stop the early release of its blockbuster this→

According to The Associated Press, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is planning an aggressive push into urban markets with a new small format that’s a fraction→

Oregon-based Supportland is using incentives to reward consumers for choosing local businesses when they buy products and services of any kind, according to a→

According to CNNMoney, IBM and five other major U.S. corporations said they would make it easier for small companies to apply for billions of→