By EMILY CHERTOFF writing for The Atlantic Good morning, gentlemen. You look lovely today. Is that a peaked lapel I see? Yes, Casual Friday is four days away. While you carve another hash mark into the wall of your cubicle, wouldn’t you like to know the origin of your wool-flannel slave-suit? This symbol of the American establishment […]

By Jo Disney, News and Features Editor, U.K. for Officing Today. Social networking is a powerful marketing tool for the business centre and flexible workspace industry. It’s also an extension of other parts of your business – including customer service, branding, sales and after care. So it pays to get it right from the start. […]

From History.com Every February 14, across the United States and in other places around the world, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. But who is this mysterious saint, and where did these traditions come from? Find out about the history of this centuries-old holiday, from […]

By Laura Northrup writing for Consumerist.com  People might have freaked out when a Starbucks opened within the Main Street Bakery at Walt Disney World, but how soon we forget. Cross-branding is nothing new. When Disneyland opened, it featured a Mexican(ish) restaurant called Casa de Fritos run by the Frito company. It was on New Orleans Street, […]

This interview with Liz Pearce, C.E.O. of LiquidPlanner, a project management software firm, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What were you like as a child? A. My mom says I was pretty strong-willed and strong-minded as a toddler. She would try to get me dressed in the morning, and I would say, […]

from Biography.com Elijah McCoy was a 19th century African-American inventor best known for inventing lubrication devices used to make train travel more efficient. Snopsis Elijah McCoy was born on May 2, 1844, in Colchester, Ontario, Canada, to parents who had fled slavery. McCoy trained as an engineer in Scotland as a teenager. Unable to find […]

BY CONNER SCHWERDTFEGER for Cinema Blend While things have never necessarily been easy for the survivors on The Walking Dead, they’re about to get a whole lot harder. When Season 6 of the hit AMC series ended for its midseason break, all of our favorite survivors had been scattered by the chaos of a walker horde, […]

By URI FRIEDMAN writing for The Atlantic On July 9, 1916, The New York Times puzzled over a fashion trend: Europeans were starting to wear bracelets with clocks on them. Time had migrated to the human wrist, and the development required some explaining. “Until recently,” the paper observed, “the bracelet watch has been looked upon by Americans […]

By By Tom Zanki writing for Law360 Swiss watchmaker Breitling has agreed to lease three levels at a prime Madison Avenue retail corner just east of its current storefront, signing a 12-year deal with owner Steinberg & Pokoik, according to CBRE Inc., which said Wednesday it brokered the deal for Steinberg. The maker of chronometer watches […]

From Foxnews.com Iowa Democratic and Republican caucuses are the most hyped presidential contests in the country but also among the most confusing. They essentially function like traditional party primaries because residents cast ballots, and the candidate with the most ballots wins. However, residents simply don’t walk into a polling site to cast their ballot, then […]