Creativity has taken center stage in recent years, with a slew of books, articles and TED talks extolling the virtues of imagination and exhorting young and old to go out and exercise their creative muscle.
Spring breaks are starting up across the country, which means it's the beginning of road trip season.
Shares of reviews site Yelp soared more than 64% Friday, in its initial public offering.
Trading volume is anemic. Bonuses are down. Investment banking activity is sluggish. But instead of singing a requiem for Wall Street, investors are treating the big banks like they are rock stars.
A third straight week of U.S. stock gains is on the line Friday as investors turning their focus to developments in Europe.
Reviews site Yelp priced its initial public offering at $15 a share late Thursday, above the target set by the company.
Google search is about to get way more personal.
When it comes to IPOs, 2012 will be the year of Facebook.
Groupon, LinkedIn and Pandora may have all plunged from the prices they hit on their first day of trading.
Yelp is the newest member of the Internet company IPO parade this year. The local business reviews site filed on Thursday afternoon to raise up to $100 million in a public offering.
Every U.S. company with more than 100 employees is required to file a one-page form each year with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an independent federal agency. Called the EEO-1, the form categorizes each company's U.S. workers by their self-identified race and gender.
For millions of Americans, yoga and Pilates keep the body toned and the mind on an even keel. For some, yoga and Pilates are also great business.
Finally, the Windows Phone 7 operating system is starting to catch up.
Former U.S. Sen. and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has a well-known Google problem.
Virtually all smartphones now include a built-in GPS receiver to enable location tracking, but only 55% of U.S. smartphone owners have used their phone's GPS to help get local directions or recommendations.
Groupon's success in the daily deals space spawned hundreds of copycat sites and inspired big companies like Google to hawk their coupon services. Skeptics said the near-immediate market saturation meant Groupon's business was easily replicated -- and therefore doomed.
Critics are considered the authorities on taste, the owners of discerning palates who tell the less-refined masses what to eat, see and do.
As location-based apps go, Foursquare or Gowalla will work just fine if you're looking for the spot where all your buddies are having a beer.
Ken Ficara is a musician, writer and technology consultant based in New York City.
As web companies strive to tailor their services to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence.
A small startup with a nearly unsearchable name introduced a new model for mobile search Monday.
As hot tech companies line up to test the IPO market, trading in restricted, private markets softened last quarter.
At about 5:30 on a Friday afternoon a few weeks ago, I was running out the door to get home when I ran into several colleagues sitting in a circle and drinking some Scotch. They invited me to celebrate the end of the week with them, and after hesitating a bit, I joined the little group. Yes, I enjoyed the single malt they gave me, but I enjoyed the conversation much more. These are people I see all the time, but nearly all of our interactions are rushed and task-oriented.
Investors spent $158 million snapping up shares of privately held companies like Facebook on SecondMarket's platform last quarter -- twice the volume the exchange had just one quarter earlier.
Popular restaurant recommendation app Urbanspoon has just launched a brand new version of its app, complete with a full redesign and the ability to rate and upload photos of your dishes.
After weeks of negotiations about a potential takeover, Groupon appears to have walked away from would-be suitor Google.
One of our Twitter followers put it best:
CNN's John Sutter and Lisa Respers France duke it out over whether to shop online or hit the mall this holiday season.
Major retailers are entering the location game, offering users discounts for "checking in" on location based services like Facebook Places, Foursquare, and Gowalla during the busiest shopping day of the year.
Editor's Note: This is part of a five-day CNN.com series about smartphones and their impact on our lives and culture.
I admit I'm pretty much a walking gender stereotype. I like shopping, getting pedicures, grabbing drinks with the girls after work, obsessing about my hair, and lusting over other women's awesome boots.
We continuously make decisions every day, from which restaurants and dry cleaners to patronize to who to vote for. Sometimes we know enough to make those decisions ourselves, but often we rely on friends, or on friends of friends, or even on strangers.
Hotels want to know who you are, especially if you're reviewing them anonymously.
Facebook's latest modifications make it pretty clear that the company is eager to spread its brand even further across the Web -- and that's left some privacy advocates a little freaked out as they look at the vast amount of personal information that Facebook has on hand.
On a recent episode of the TV show "Modern Family," a character named Mitchell gets in his car and does something that's frustratingly familiar for early adopters of technology:
Facebook on Friday proposed creating a way for people to add their locations to Facebook pages but released almost no details about how the feature will work.
Oh, the things hotels will do for a good review.
It's a good time to have an iPhone, be moderately geeky and live in New York.
As a small business in a small town, we rely heavily on phone-book advertising for our law firm. We have recently expanded to create a Web site. We have tried to keep it informative to draw in potential clients. We currently use Google AdWords and are listed as a member of the AARP Legal Services Network. Can you make any suggestions as to how we can improve our Web site to attract people who are using the Internet to search for an appropriate attorney in this area?
If your business serves consumers and hasn't been reviewed on Yelp, chances are it's only a matter of time.
Fortune: Yelp jumps the pondupdated: Fri Jan 09 2009 10:28:00
People gotta eat. They need plumbers and carpet cleaners and attorneys and dentists. And not just in the United States. These are global necessities, and now more than ever, we all have to be careful about how we spend our money on such things.
I admit, I'm pretty much a walking gender stereotype -- I like shopping, getting pedicures, grabbing drinks with the girls after work, obsessing about my hair, and lusting over other woman's awesome boots. I also hate when models brag about how they can eat anything without gaining an ounce, and I have an unhealthy addiction to gossip sites, but that may be taking it a bit too far.
If you've been slandered on the Web, your bad reputation may follow you offline too. Here are some tips for burnishing your online image
In his new book, web analyst Pete Blackshaw hails the rising influence of customer-opinion Web sites and blogs, and argues that small-business owners can profit from joining the online discussion.
Every gym has its share of grunters, groaners, heavy sweaters and hygiene queens. And then there are the aerobics assailants.
"I'm making a ton of money from Yelp, and it's freaking me out." Woe is Christopher Hall, the 34-year-old owner of Splitends, a hair salon in Orange County, Calif. Its chic décor is more architectural firm than beauty parlor. He has appeared on a reality show, in the L.A. Times, and on TV news segments. He's photogenic and has a quick wit. He serves beer to customers. So business, unsurprisingly, was decent as soon as he opened the place last December. Until March 6. That's when things got crazy.
What if you could flip through a virtual phone book looking for, say, a good dentist—but instead of just ads, you saw user-generated videos of the practitioners doing root canals? That's the idea b...
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