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The warm, brown winter that has disappointed snow lovers in much of the U.S. has put more green in the pockets of state and local governments that had their budgets busted last year by the high cost of keeping streets and highways clear.

In a bad economy, talent is everything. Unemployment and lowered budgets force companies to latch onto their most productive employees to fill the voids left by downsizing.

In tech and other industries, it can be even harder as the top talent is well aware that their services are at high demand.

How can businesses determine when a rockstar is on the verge of leaving?

A Michigan plan to replace state employees at a veterans’ facility with contract workers highlights the difficulty of outsourcing in the face of strained budgets.

Tabletop directors are commercial artists whose goal is to make mundane foods look so irresistible that people want to eat the TV.

The web has done wonders for shrinking sales and marketing budgets. But we are a long way from getting the most out our e-commerce efforts.

What follows will help.

For four years and counting, Congress has been unable to approve long-term authority for the agency’s budgets.

We assist small businesses with low budgets to promote themselves as a large corporation.

Louisville’s efforts to combat obesity are instructive at a time when federal dollars are becoming more scarce and budgets are pinched.

Filed under: Budgets, TechnologyIntuit has released Quicken 2011, a new personal finance management tool that represents the first collaborative Quicken release between the Quicken Desktop and Mint.com teams.

The result is a desktop personal finance tool that looks and feels in some areas like a website with a new and improved dashboard to guide your finances, yet it retains the benefits of an offline personal finance tool that many Quicken users want.

One of the areas that received a big overhaul was the dashboard, or home screen, which now gives users an easy to understand summary of the im

Sales taxes are supposed to be paid on most online purchases, but they rarely are. With their budgets in crisis, states are determined to get their share.