Melissa Wiese

Women Who Mean Business

bizjournals.com — Join us in celebrating the 2013 Women Who Mean Business honorees.

California adds fewer jobs in April

bizjournals.com — California's jobless rate kept improving in April even as the state's employment growth started slowing down. The state added roughly 10,400 nonfarm payroll jobs last month according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the unemployment rate fell to 9 percent, a 1.7 percent drop since April 2012.

5 great hotel apps for your smartphone and tablet

bizjournals.com — Jane Reynolds for Oyster.com We here at Oyster love staying on the cutting edge, be it with hotel trendstechnology . Welove taking full advantage of everything there is to experience with hotels, and there is often no better way to do that than with some handy hotel apps.

SURF entrepreneurs: 'Running a startup is about realizing you suck at everything'

bizjournals.com — Most of us learn best by doing something, and nowhere is that more true than in the business of entrepreneurship. There's a reason many mentors say that even companies that have been in business for six months can offer helpful advice to those that have just begun; starting a company is a process and it helps to know which steps to take and when.

Apple opening S.F. store in Union Square

bizjournals.com — Staff San Francisco Business Times Apple Inc. is planning to open a new store in San Francisco's Union Square, to replace its location at Stockton and Ellis, the Chronicle reports. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will occupy a space at Stockton and Post streets that was formerly occupied by Levi's and will be about 45 percent larger than the existing location.

How can I cook up video for small business?

bizjournals.com — We've all been told that nothing engages an audience like video. What can be better than a 15 or 30 second commercial for your product right on your website? For a small business that finds posting pictures a daunting task, creating and posting a video to a website can seem like rocket science.

Newegg nukes “corporate troll” Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year

arstechnica.com — In 2011, Alcatel-Lucent had American e-commerce on the ropes. The French telecom had sued eight big retailers and Intuit, saying that their e-commerce operations infringed Alcatel patents; one by one, they were folding. Kmart, QVC, Lands' End, and Intuit paid up at various stages of the litigation.

Following the Sacramento Kings saga

storify.com — NBA owners met today to decide the fate of the Sacramento Kings. This is a timeline of the suspense leading up to the announcement and a bit of the buzz after.