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Business travelers are still taking to the air despite the uncertain economy, but they're being a lot more careful about their spending. Here's a look at five apps that can help you make the most of your business travel budget.

In a digital era defined by sites like Facebook, Foursquare and Groupon, a new breed of consumers has emerged: social shoppers, people increasingly relying on the wisdom of the digital crowd to help them make their purchasing decisions. Sound like someone you know? Read on ...

Tens of millions of Americans take to the Web regularly to do our most important financial business. As we do, the company Corporate Insight is tracking which institutions are offering customers the best new online innovations. Here's what CI found:

Frugal foodies, rejoice! A growing list of websites is making it easier to indulge in culinary adventures that won't take a big bite out of your wallet. Here are five sites designed to help you find foodie-worthy restaurants that are affordable, too.

Here's yet another reason to watch what you say and do online: Insurance companies are already surfing social media sites to get the scoop about their customers, and what their data-miners find may soon be compiled into a new way to rate you as a risk: a social networking score.

Before Facebook goes public next year, it wants to know a bit more about what you do when you're out in public. The social networking giant is acquiring geo-social app startup Gowalla.

If you're into cheap and yummy restaurants -- and who isn't these days? -- Cheapism.com wants to be your go-to source for gastronomical wonders that will also do wonders for your wallet. The review site, which lists what it deems to be the best cheap products and services, including everything...

With 20,000 attendees and corporate outposts by the score, this year's South by Southwest Interactive has a carnival-like atmosphere. From its origin as a sort of spring break for nerds, the event has grown into something more like Disneyland for adults.

Facebook and many other tech startups have realized that the hassles and headaches of an IPO in the U.S. aren't always worthwhile. Thanks to willing venture capitalists and private investors, it's easier than ever for tech companies to avoid the lure of going public.

What's to look forward to in tech for 2011? Here are a few: Consolidation in enterprise computing, a check-in shakeout (Foursquare's Dennis Crowley pictured) and a surge in crowd-sourcing businesses.