As featured in the NYTimes.com: Some Small Businesses Grow, Even in a Recession Even before last fall’s crash, sales at Lexington International, a 12-employee maker of a laser device for treating hair loss, started heading south. “People cut down...

This is pretty amazing. We’ve seen this type of personalized technology before in various marketing campaigns, but when it comes from Presdient Obama, it really does feel personal in a warm and fuzzy kind of way.

1. 367 U.S. periodicals shut down in 2009 and 64 went online-only. 2. After 23 years, Pepsi abandons Super Bowl ads for online. 3. Comcast rolls out Web TV service. 4. Google introduces display ad strategy. 5. Google may acquire Yelp.

Wondering whether December is a brisk time to market your wares internationally and if people in certain countries are receptive to holiday items? You might take a look at: Wikipedia’s Christmas Worldwide Photo credit: Wikipedia, the new...

Irish America’s Annual The Business 100 is a celebration of Irish-American corporate success. The executives profiled here represent some of the most powerful corporations and in my case, global small businesses, in the world. All of the Business...