Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: Getting serious about in-bar promotions. Lovely gals selling candy-colored shots to drunk guys – sounds easy as pie, right? Well, it turns out there's a little more to the formula than meets the eye. Today the Wall Street Journal profiles a service that outsources ...

By Dolly Brosan, Times Staff Writer Friday, September 3, 2010 Brownstein Engineering Richard Tillery has been named senior transportation planner at RS&H, Tampa. Tillery was a project manager at Renaissance Planning Group, Tampa. Legal Rachel L. Drude has been named an associate at Battaglia, Ross, Dicus & Wein PA, St. Petersburg, and will lead the firm's estate planning and probate department ...

Here's one man's opinion of the 50 most influential people in boxing history.

No wonder Tony Ensor was smiling. Before the promotion-packed final four games of the season, the Sky Sox's best season at the gate was assured. Friday night's attendance of 5,037 brought to 314,489 the number of people to visit Security Service...

A MALACAÑANG official assured Cebuanos last Friday that government will do its best to maintain the number of tourists coming to Cebu amid the lingering effects of the Aug. read more

Graafschap Hardware this weekend celebrated its 150th anniversary with special guests, promotions and sales. Beneath the modern marketing is something more special, a strength of tradition, of connection to a place and community that is unusual, if not rare. Here are five things to know.

LAS CRUCES - We aren't merely the chile capital of the world these days. This year, the Hatch Chile Festival people are boasting about "The Best Chile on Any Planet.

After a July and August that appeared to be positive for many Steamboat Springs businesses, some local business owners are feeling trepidation about the twin specters of shoulder season and the return of the repaving project on Lincoln Avenue through downtown.

Retail outlets generally see a boost in sales around late August, early September due to the back to school rush. Kids egg on their parents to purchase new clothes, books and supplies for the upcoming year.

Kira Florita has been named to the newly created position of senior director for advancement for the Nashville Opera. Florita had been executive director of Leadership Music.

When’s the last time you read a book without knowing the author? Or attended an art exhibit, artists not identified? Then why must we watch movies that don’t include the closing credits? TV’s elimination or squeezing of post-movie credits — a move that years ago began as a...

As teachers and administrators begin a new school year in the Pennsbury School District, students can anticipate a few exciting changes and some new elements in their overall academic program.

Kim, a single mother of two children, has seen her pay cut by 5 percent, her health benefits decrease, her 401(k) match disappear and her workload grow after her company cut workers to ride out the recession.

On July 16th, Apple announced its free Bumper case promotion to accommodate iPhone 4 users who were experiencing antennae and reception frustrations. One week later, Fusion of Ideas introduced a similar promotion offering their StealthArmor for iPhone 4 side bezel piece also for free with 1.50 flat rate shipping when ordering online. Both promotions run through September 30th.Known for ...

The NY Times' Bucks blog quotes a Kelley Blue Book expert saying, "If you just isolated this calendar year, Labor Day is the best time to buy." Why don't I believe this? Because there are several "best" times of year to buy cars. In the same post this same source basically says that the end [...]

Olly Murs reveals that his management team are keeping him away from Diana Vickers.

MOOSIC - As the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees captured the International League North Division title, the minor league baseball franchise was setting a record this season - the lowest attendance at the Lackawanna County ballpark in its 21-year history.A

What happens when we Americans can no longer measure our value -- or even feel very human -- based on our paid work? Where is our self-worth to be centered and nurtured in this unsettling new world?

Solvang’s Ashton Lockwood and his horse E Equals MC Squared — or “Einstein” as Ashton calls him — placed seventh in the American Quarter Horse Youth World Championship in the Cutting Competition in Oklahoma City, Okla., on Saturday, Aug. 7.

In a conference call with analysts on Friday, Campbell Soup President and CEO Douglas Conant expressed optimism about a new ad campaign and new store promotions. But an analyst wondered if old tactics will lure increasingly budget-constrained shoppers.