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  • Wedding Bills
    By Kelly Nolan

    Don’t believe all those industry surveys. You can have your dream wedding without breaking the bank.

  • School of Hard Knocks
    By Steven Bertoni

    Why starting a new business might provide a better education than earning an MBA.

  • Who’s Afraid of a Recession?
    By Gina F. Faridniya

    Certainly not fledgling entrepreneurs.

  • Rating the Raters
    By Sui-Lee Wee

    Credit rating agencies are finally in the line of fire among regulators. It’s high time.

  • Ads, Ads Everywhere
    By Jay Yarow

    As you walk down the street — ping — it’s an ad on your GPS-equipped phone. The age of location-based marketing is here. And it might be less-intrusive than you think.

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Behind the News

  • Adventure Venture
    By Ana Patricia Ferrey

    Alley Pond Park in Queens opened an adventure course to attract active New Yorkers looking for a thrill and businesses searching for team-building activities. Rock climbing anyone?

  • CEO Go Go
    By Tatyana Shumsky

    Amid market turmoil chief executive officer turnover hits a record high, leaving companies worried about keeping CEOs on the job.

  • Dollars for Scholars
    By Joyce Koh

    If an educated workforce is the key to America’s future prosperity, somebody’s got to pay for it.

  • Riding With the Fishes
    By Wayne Ma

    New York City Transit plans to dispose of 1,600 old subway cars off the Atlantic coast. But do the cost savings for the city outweigh the environmental costs to the ocean?

  • Live, From a Stage 1,000 Miles Away
    By Ryan Derousseau

    Fabchannel.com streams real-time concerts from a club in the Netherlands to a computer near you. Cool. But is it profitable?

  • Good Enough for Government Work?
    By Debra Borchardt

    It’s official. Federal procurement offices must find bio-based products that don’t use fossil fuels. Soy ink anyone?

  • Regulation Nation
    By Simone Baribeau

    As the world waits for a resolution to the subprime debacle, many state governments have jumped in and proposed legislation to protect consumers and the economy.

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Fuelish Choices

By Jennifer Hodson

Coal by any other name is just as devastating to the environment. If you think liquefying it makes it green, take a drive through Appalachian coal country.

Money Talks

By Simone Baribeau

Should you tell your co-workers how much you make? In a recent survey, 88 percent of respondents said no. I say, “You bet.” And I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is.

Business Cycles

By Debra Borchardt

Mountain biking can lead a town to economic recovery, but will the town take a ride?

Tough Love

By Aliza Rosenbaum

Activist shareholders are all too often reviled as profit-hungry bullies. But by putting pressure on managers in a way individual shareholders never could, they unlock value for all.

All the News That’s Profitable

By Ryan Derousseau

The shield law passed by the U.S. House covers working journalists, but those who labor for nothing, get nothing. This means many bloggers and students go unprotected.

Call Waiting

By Wayne Ma

Apple could solve the iPhone’s Internet problem with a single move — from AT&T to T-Mobile. But the split won’t be pretty.

Only the Best

By Samar Srivastava

It’s called the points system, and it’s being sold as a modest proposal for immigration reform that would bring only skilled and much-needed workers into the country. Don’t be fooled.

Who’s Sorry Now?

By Eva Wu

Mattel apologized. China accepted. And the balance of power shifted ever so slightly.

Socially Acceptable

By J.T. Keehner

When is a mutual fund like an organic wine?

Desperate Engineers

By Smitha Ballal

A modest proposal for reversing America’s decline in home-grown engineering talent.

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