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Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is a rich investor who holds stock in many of the world's largest companies, including Citigroup and News Corp. He's just announced his next investment: the world's largest tower.

National office vacancy rates are likely to top 18% in 2010, reaching their highest levels in decades and forcing landlords to negotiate more concessions with tenants, according to a new study by Grubb & Ellis.

New York's office vacancy rate started to climb dramatically after Lehman Brothers collapsed in September 2008 and has not yet recovered. New York's loss puts Washington, DC, on track to overtake New York as the most expensive place to rent office space in the U.S. That's thanks to the government expansion and the increase in the need for rental space in the nation's capital for firms that do business with government, including lobbyists, corporations and contractors.

If only the officials at Dell had watched "Office Space" not only would they have known that you always let people go on a Friday and if you do layoff workers you need to be prepared for the fallout before The Wall Street Journal reports on your 16% workforce cut in Malaysia. Otherwise you run the...

In the grand scheme of things, Get Your War On is pretty small potatoes. While the online comic strip's popularity grew last year with a series of animated segments that ran on Huffington Post, it has generally been the preserve of a small, rabidly-devoted group of fans. Consequently, when Jamba...

I have to admit that when I first saw Office Space, I only partially got the joke. After all, although I had never worked in a cubicle, I had had my fair share of menial, miserable jobs. Moreover, who can't relate to the hell of dealing with the lame, passive-aggressive jerk boss? Still, it wasn't...