By YOKO KUBOTA INA, Japan— Toyota Motor Corp.’s production methods have been studied the world over, inspiring dozens of books about management and manufacturing. So where does Toyota go when it needs management advice? To this mountain town, where a little company called Ina Food Industry Co. makes a living turning seaweed into a gelatin-like substance […]

If you’ve noticed that your computer is slowing down to a crawl lately and for no apparent reason, one of the possible causes comes in the form of malicious internet bots that have secretly seized control over your device. What exactly is an internet bot? Internet bots, also known as web robots, WWW robots or […]

By Mary Dunlap, MBA There’s no doubt that when your employees are happy and engaged you experience better business results. There’s also no doubt that employees can become disengaged. Do you know how to best handle an unhappy employee who is not performing up to par? This article gives you guidance to address behaviors and […]

By Traci Watson, Special to USA TODAY Three trillion. That’s the staggering number of trees on Earth, according to a new tally that astounds even the scientists who compiled it. Three trillion is three followed by 12 zeroes, which is more than the number of stars in the Milky Way and more than the number of […]

Nov. 12: Birth of pro football The date was November 12, 1892, a day that would forever be etched in sports history, although no one involved that day could possibly have recognized the importance of the occasion. It was the day that the Allegheny Athletic Association football team defeated the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. The game […]

By Robbie Gonzalez writing got i09 Be careful what you touch, and what you eat. Some vegetation can snuff out your life as surely as a venomous snake. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of poisonous plants in the world, and some of them are deadly. Here are 10 of the world’s deadliest plants. We run down […]

By Jose Pagliery   @Jose_Paglier ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN CCN MONEY It sounds crazy, but 2.1 million people in the United States still use AOL dial-up to connect to the Internet. Beep-beep-beep. Chcck. Eeeerrrhhrr. Bhrrrh. Hccccchhh-ZZzzZZzzz. That. They hear that. That number was in AOL’s quarterly earnings report Friday. It’s shocking, given that 70% of Americans […]

by Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer The faraway “Star Wars” galaxy will soon be close enough to visit. “Star Wars”-themed lands will be added to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World resorts — located in Anaheim, California, and Orlando, Florida, respectively — Walt Disney Co. representatives announced at the D23 Expo 2015 over the weekend. […]

By Andrew Beattie When people talk stocks they are usually talking about companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). It’s the big daddy and the big leagues. From a corporate perspective, anyone who’s anyone is listed there, and it can be difficult for investors to imagine a time when the NYSE wasn’t synonymous […]

That little “a” with a circle curling around it that is found in email addresses is most commonly referred to as the “at” symbol. Surprisingly though, there is no official, universal name for this sign. There are dozens of strange terms to describe the @ symbol. Several languages use words that associate the shape of […]