GE Healthcare today launched Stimulus Simplicity, a new financing and product-certification program that will offer zero percent interest loans to physicians’ offices, hospitals, clinics, and other organizations. The concept is to help them...

Not too long ago, the discount-clothing chain Steve & Barry's was the center of newspaper style-section stories and glossy fashion-magazine spreads. It was another example of the democratization of design.

Patent volume, based on new analysis, isn't necessarily a valid proxy for innovation. Tallies of U.S. patent grants are published every year, giving IBM reason to strut since it invariably comes out on top. (Last year, as IBM notes here, it was the...

American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) is giving its shoppers 15 seconds of fame. A 15,000 square foot LED display atop the retailer's new store in Times Square, which opened on November 19, is adding more flash to New York’s busy hub. Anyone who makes a...

My 11-year-old son had a dilemma last night. He had zipped through the first two books in the Twilight series and was keen to start on the third, Eclipse. But the book my wife quickly picked up at the library was in Spanish. Oops. So we tried an...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University aren't waiting for big car companies to bring affordable electric vehicles to the market. They're proving that with some tinkering, today's gas-powered models can be rigged to save as much as 80% in energy...

Nearly two years after the U.S. tumbled into a recession, business is starting to think about ways to grow again. And for many, this means spending more money on innovation, says a new study from Accenture. In a survey of 630 execs in the U.S. and the...