Nearly every teen uses instant chat, text messaging, or some sort of online social network to keep in touch with friends. But ask a wired teen whether e-mail and other types of electronic communication can be considered the act of

The business community is rarely singled out for excellence in written communication, primarily because the people who practice it day after day are not professional writers. Letters, e-mails, proposals, presentations, reports, etc., are still infected with convoluted, Victorian language. Read

Hiring managers who have years of experience interviewing job candidates are reporting a sad decline in applicant behavior.

Sun Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz rightly gets credit for pioneering the corporate blog as a tool to reach customers, employees, and others. But pretty soon the novelty of his methods will wear off, he predicted. Read the original story here

Though most managers understand intellectually that time is their scarcest resource , few make the effort to gain a strategic perspective on how they spend their hours each week. Still fewer make a regular practice of keeping track of how

BABCOCK International has increased its profits by more than 50 per cent, the company announced yesterday.

SVM Asset Management, the Edinburgh-based hedge and traditional fund boutique, has more than doubled profits in 2007, despite a tough stock market environment.

FIGURES released this week in the 2007 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) report for the UK suggest that, despite a relatively favourable climate for start-ups, a g

The first message one could consider e-mail was sent more than 30 years ago, and that's probably when people began associating angst and uncertainty with the words "Inbox" and "Unread Messages." The tools available to read and send e-mails have