If you could use a car now and again but don't want to buy one, German automaker Daimler has a possible solution for you. At least if you live in Austin, Tex.
Kristin Luna reserves a car in Austin, Texas, but when she checks in, her car rental company is out of vehicles. She's free to rent from another company, but will have to pay an extra $245. Shouldn't her car rental company or travel agent help her?
CD sales are down. Digital hasn't caught up. Record companies are consolidating. New bands are trying to find their own way.
Sonic booms and at least one fireball in the sky were reported in Texas on Sunday, less than a week after two satellites collided in space and a day after the Federal Aviation Administration asked U.S. pilots to watch for "falling space debris," authorities said.
Recent world events have shown in stark relief how financial speculators hype industries up, only to scare and scatter when a bubble bursts leaving the value of stocks and shares to tumble.
A seven-state survey of the grass-roots anger and confusion generated by the proposed bailout
Violence is falling in Iraq's Anbar province, one of the top U.S. commanders in the country said Monday, but that will not mean a significant reduction in U.S. troops any time soon.
It's been five days since Hurricane Ike smashed into the Texas coast, but people are still struggling mightily with its effects.
It's no surprise: Americans are super-opinionated, especially about the cities they live in and the places they visit. In fact, their feelings are so strong that in the 2008 America's Favorite Cities survey -- conducted by travelandleisure.com and CNN Headline News -- Americans voted more than 600,000 times on 45 characteristics of 25 cities, weighing in on things like shopping, food, culture and nightlife, as well as cleanliness and affordability.
Your phone may be keeping you awake - and not because it's ringing.
If you could use a car now and again but don't want to buy one, German automaker Daimler has a possible solution for you. At least if you live in Austin, Tex.
Kristin Luna reserves a car in Austin, Texas, but when she checks in, her car rental company is out of vehicles. She's free to rent from another company, but will have to pay an extra $245. Shouldn't her car rental company or travel agent help her?
CD sales are down. Digital hasn't caught up. Record companies are consolidating. New bands are trying to find their own way.
Sonic booms and at least one fireball in the sky were reported in Texas on Sunday, less than a week after two satellites collided in space and a day after the Federal Aviation Administration asked U.S. pilots to watch for "falling space debris," authorities said.
Recent world events have shown in stark relief how financial speculators hype industries up, only to scare and scatter when a bubble bursts leaving the value of stocks and shares to tumble.
A seven-state survey of the grass-roots anger and confusion generated by the proposed bailout
Violence is falling in Iraq's Anbar province, one of the top U.S. commanders in the country said Monday, but that will not mean a significant reduction in U.S. troops any time soon.
It's been five days since Hurricane Ike smashed into the Texas coast, but people are still struggling mightily with its effects.
It's no surprise: Americans are super-opinionated, especially about the cities they live in and the places they visit. In fact, their feelings are so strong that in the 2008 America's Favorite Cities survey -- conducted by travelandleisure.com and CNN Headline News -- Americans voted more than 600,000 times on 45 characteristics of 25 cities, weighing in on things like shopping, food, culture and nightlife, as well as cleanliness and affordability.
Your phone may be keeping you awake - and not because it's ringing.
Ryan Libbey, 10, was in vacation heaven.
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. -- A frustrated Austin Rivers flipped off the TV the night of June 12. It was bad enough that a bout with bronchitis kept the son of Celtics coach Doc Rivers from flying to see Game 4 of the NBA Finals in person. Now the younger Rivers had to watch the Celtics flounder to a 24-point deficit.
iReporter James Holler is the first to admit that he drives a gas-guzzler -- in fact, he has two of them.
Lots of businesses allow employees to work from home and many rely on networks of virtual staffers. But what if the partners who own and run the business live in four different cities? Thanks to some smart technology, that's what's happening at Blastro Networks (blastro.com), an operator of several music video websites.
Texas child welfare authorities are appealing a ruling in the polygamist sect case, arguing that the state was right to put more than 440 children in foster care
"Ten years ago, there was almost nothing here," says Chris Damon of the view from his office window.
A mysterious nerve disorder that hit some slaughterhouse employees with debilitating symptoms apparently was caused by inhaling a fine mist of pig brain tissue.
A state that didn't expect to have a role in the 2008 primaries is now the crucial test. And locals are savoring every minute of it
Obama and Clinton have agreed to debate in Austin, but now the fight is over whether the public should be able to attend
Whether it's dining, shopping, culture, nightlife or people, everybody has a favorite city. Some cities are great places to live and raise a family. Others provide the backdrop for that once-in-a-lifetime vacation.
Call your best girlfriends, throw a few things in a bag and treat yourself to a well-deserved women's getaway.
College football season is upon us ... finally.
Rain storms across Texas have borne a thousand soggy stories during one of the wettest Junes on record
An explosive device "which could have caused substantial harm" was found Wednesday in the parking lot of an Austin, Texas, women's clinic where abortions are performed, authorities said.
The living is richer when you're the boss. But you don't need to spend years climbing the corporate ladder if you start your own business. We've taken the first steps for you, talking to entrepreneurs and experts to find new business and franchise opportunities poised to capitalize on trends that will pay off now and in your golden years.
You could do a lot worse than the hill country of central Texas this time of year. The days are warm (but not too warm), the nights cool; rain is rare and next month South by Southwest, Austin's 21...
CNN.com readers shared powerful stories of sickness and survival in response to a commentary written by Lance Armstrong, one of cycling's all-time greats and possibly the world's best known cancer survivor.
All five of last year's winners are growing rapidly. Here's an update.
Madonna is defending her recent adoption of a year-old child from Malawi, after human rights groups questioned how the adoption was handled. The international pop star says she just wants to give the child a good home, and that the media is doing a "great disservice" to all African orphans by pursuing negative stories.
PARADISE LOST...AND FOUND
It's graduation day at VT's American Freestyle Karate school in Marietta, Georgia, and the studio's junior instructor, Austin Leake, impresses students and parents with a perfectly executed flying sidekick.
Google has the power to help but also hurt any business with an online presence. Meet one entrepreneur who figured out how to thrive in this strange new world.
If realtors are trying to put Randy Calhoun out of business, he has yet to feel the heat.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Thursday that the Austin Board of Realtors agreed to end a policy the FTC claims violates anti-trust laws and harms consumers by inflating costs.
Where are the best values in spa vacation? Budget Travel magazine picked their favorites in different regions around the nation.
When four of my top employees told me in one six-week period that they were pregnant, I realized that their good news could spell disaster for my advertising agency, T3.
Today the American people are way out in front of our leaders. We're ready to face our toughest national challenges, and we deserve new and forward-looking solutions and leadership.
Since gracing our cover in March 2005, sunken-treasure recovery firm Odyssey Marine Exploration has been working toward a huge payday: the exploration of the HMS Sussex, sunk off Gibraltar in 1694 ...
Technology is a rapidly changing landscape. What is merely an idea now someday could be commonplace.
Two rubbery-looking potted plants adorn the lobby of 285 Hamilton Ave. in downtown Palo Alto. The five-story building sits across the street from City Hall and is a short bike ride from Stanford Un...
KA-CHING! Opris has worked at Whole Foods for just over a year.
PAUL ALLEN
It's usually a lot more fun to watch Office Space than to live it. But not for the lucky cubicle dwellers whose employers are enlightened enough to rent out Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Cinema for the...
Several once high-flying housing markets in the United States have come down to earth recently. Could yours be next?
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Zareh Tahmassebian is on the way to look at two of his houses in Phoenix. He is lost. Most people don't get lost driving to their own residence, but then, Tahmassebian has never actually been to th...
Tell us about up and coming events in the business and technology world. E-mail spark@cnn.com.
Dear Armchair Millionaire: Our 25-year old son (a college graduate who moved back home after college) is finally getting set to move out into his own apartment. Short of helping him pay his bills (we've had enough of that, thank you), how can we help him get off on the right foot financially? -- Austin Mom and Dad
It's what every retiree dreams of. But lately second-act home hunters have been in for some rude surprises. Sedona always sounded like a nice place to buy? Home prices are up 47% in the past three ...
Richard Florida likes to chat about cities the way most people chat about movies or pop culture. This is not to say that Florida, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, likes to discuss the bes...
Dear Armchair Millionaire: My parents and I have a long-standing disagreement. They say that when it comes to money, my generation has it much easier than theirs ever did. I say that things were easier back then. What's your perspective?
Q. One of my two jobs provides a Keogh plan, but only my employer can make contributions--and he doesn't often do so. Should I become an independent contractor and set up my own retirement plan? --...
At nine o'clock on the morning of Sept. 5, a brown-and-white calf shot out of a chute at the Travis County Exposition Center in Austin, kicking off the 20th edition of the Capital City Rodeo run by...
1 Call your assistant and tell him you're out of pocket for all July. Really, it's been far too long since you've properly celebrated Lasagna Awareness Month. While you're at it, send a shout-out u...
AUSTIN Forest Creek Golf Club Round Rock, Texas; $25-$59; www.forestcreek.com
IN OUR 16TH SURVEY OF AMERICA'S TOP TOWNS WE LOOK AT 10 BIG CITIES WHERE PEOPLE ARE MOVING AND REAL ESTATE IS BOOMING, AND FIND THE BEST NEIGHBORHOODS AND SUBURBS FOR LASTING VALUE, QUALITY OF LIFE...
Austin residents enjoy the best of both worlds: a stylish, exciting urban life, but without a lot of the hassles big cities are known for.
AbiWord.com There were a few good products that came out of the dot-com craze, and SourceGear had one of them. Unfortunately, the company's IPO failed to materialize, so it gave up on its open-sour...
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How do you find good down-home food? Follow your nose, for one, but don't forget your eyes. Four rules for the road:
In the summer of 1990, a movie called Slacker opened at the Dobie Theater, just off the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. In the film a stream of smart but directionless young Austinites...
DAVID GRAY White Ladder (ATO) A Welsh singer/song-writer with a reedy rasp and a blue streak of melancholia, Gray descends from Brit folkies like Nick Drake and John Martyn. His songs are somehow b...
The Irish-born Berber is CEO of CyBerCorp, a fast-growing electronic brokerage based in Austin, Texas. Berber, 41, founded CyBerCorp (www.cybercorp.com), his second financial technology startup, af...
What's so great about Dallas?
It might make life easier if we all agreed about what's most important in a hometown--if we could somehow forge an ironclad rule about what makes a city, big or small, the best place to live. Of co...
THE RED VIOLIN Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Sony Classical): John Corigliano's aching score, performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra with soloist Joshua Bell and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salon...
A few years ago there were Texas bumper stickers that read, LORD, GIVE US ONE MORE CHANCE. WE PROMISE WE WON'T SCREW IT UP THIS TIME. This was a reference to how Texans had gone wild over rising oi...
It should come as no surprise that seven of our ten boomtowns are located in the West. After all, this part of the country has always attracted pioneers--in this case, entrepreneurs such as compute...
DEMOGRAPHICS
October's cover package--"Retire with All the Money You'll Ever Need"--connected with many of you. For one thing, our stories eased your worries about not being able to save enough for a happy reti...
FORTUNE created its list of best cities in partnership with Arthur Andersen, whose Business Location Services practice consults with companies on location strategy, selection, and implementation.
I WAS MOST INTERESTED IN "Financial Lessons From the Class of '83," September's account of how alumni of California's Palisades High School are struggling to live as well as their parents did a gen...
ONCE UPON A TIME, a lot of backyard barbecues in Raleigh/Durham's tonier suburbs involved Sansabelted tobacco and textile executives. They would stand around grumbling about business, pounding down...
1. RALEIGH/DURHAM The presence of three top universities -- Duke, University of North Carolina, and North Carolina State -- and the 7,000-acre Research Triangle Park has fueled the area's capacity ...
I agree with your ranking Austin in the top three in September's ''The Best Places to Live in America.'' But why give us only an 8 out of a possible 100 on leisure? That's like giving Malibu an F f...
No place is perfect, of course, as the table below shows. Here you'll find how each of our top 10 metro areas rates in nine broad categories, with 100 points representing the best possible score. T...
In reading your November issue, I was impressed with numerous comments such as ''your daughter the doctor'' and ''your daughter invests.'' I can't tell you how important such references are to me, ...
Rankings on access to quality labor and on pro-business attitude come from Moran Stahl & Boyer's survey of executives in America's 50 largest metropolitan areas. A rank of 1 is best, and 50 the wor...
Potential heirs, beware: your parents may not be kidding if they're riding around with one of those bumper stickers that say -- WE'RE SPENDING OUR CHILDREN'S INHERITANCE. According to a new survey ...
You can see why Provo/Orem is No. 1: it gets high scores in so many categories -- economy, housing, transportation (mass transit and commuting time) and health. The other places excelled in the eco...
Believe it or not, over the past decade when the economy was growing and unemployment was relatively low, Americans declared bankruptcy at a rate four times greater than during the Depression. Pers...
ASK A BUNCH OF CEOs about their favorite cities and you'll probably hear them evaluate urban life the same way anyone else would. They love San Francisco for the Bay and the restaurants, Seattle fo...
While it can't hurt to have your insurance agent's phone number with you while traveling, as you suggested in Family Finance (July), it is also important to carry the number of the company that iss...
Meat processor Geo. A. Hormel & Co. agreed to contracts with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union on the eve of the current contract's expiration at seven of Hormel's 26 plant...
The eight-month-old strike at the Geo. A. Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota, took a violent new turn. More than 300 demonstrators clashed with police outside the plant; 17 were arrested...
Hundreds of workers crossed picket lines at the Geo. A. Hormel & Co. plant in Austin, Minnesota, but a bitter six-month-old dispute still smoldered between Hormel and Local P-9 of the United Food a...
THE PARTY DAYS that oil brought to Texas are over -- probably for good, most Texans admit -- and the hangover in the state's economy is taking its sweet time to end. Though the state is trying to s...
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