According to The Fashion Law, Crocs has sued on the basis of both trade dress and its patents. These patents are based not only on the shoe itself but also its small plastic charms, called Jibbitz, ...

Your spouse or life partner won’t build your company for you, but the right one can influence the person who does.

Shizu Okusa says founders have to keep creating before customers know exactly what to ask for. For Apothékary, that meant building a Kyoto retreat around the brand’s Japanese heritage and ...

Rising beef costs are squeezing margins, forcing restaurant owners to rethink menus built around one of the state’s most iconic dishes.

Dislike negotiating? Hate to haggle? This phrase short-circuits the back and forth--and results in better deals.

The Small Business Administration stopped non-bank lender exams just one week before lifting a nearly 40-year moratorium on ...

Today, AI can spin up ads and buy reach in an afternoon, but it can’t buy customer loyalty once the spending stops. For that ...

AI is increasingly creating polished-looking work that is passed on unreviewed to colleagues who have to fix it. Shopify's CEO calls it a slop grenade.

Workers are nearly four times more likely to talk about work problems with an AI chatbot than to use mental health support available through their company.

Wildfires just got a formidable new enemy. Prime Minute emerged from stealth on Thursday with $15 million in pre-seed funding and a mission to become the “prime contractor” for disaster response. With ...

The Florida-based passenger railroad's total debt is $5.5 billion. A Chapter 11 filing would allow it to restructure.

Ford’s quality turnaround shows why AI works best alongside experienced people, like veteran engineers, not instead of them.