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The owners of Manhattan%u2019s landmark Lipstick Building, which housed convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff's opulent offices, has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Could new owners make the economics work?

Thousands of office workers are taking out their own trash, as employers seek to save money and boost recycling efforts. In Texas, 20,000 state workers now haul their own garbage and recyclables to common receptacles, The Wall Street Journal reported. In the past, that was a duty for the night...

Software giant Microsoft (MSFT) is preparing to offer a free, web-based version of its popular Office software suite next week, according to the Financial Times. Microsoft is targeting Google (GOOG), which has aggressively pushed into the web-based software space with its Google Docs product. It's...

Great news for anyone looking for a free way to edit and share Microsoft Office documents like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote - Microsoft is giving anyone with a free Windows Live account access to the Microsoft Office Web Apps and 25GB of free storage on SkyDrive. These free Microsoft...

Staples and Entrepreneur are offering small business owners the chance to win a $10,000 office makeover designed to transform ho-hum work spaces from corporate blah to groovy, global green. To enter from now until June 4, go to www.Entrepreneur.com/greenoffice and write in 100 words or less how...

Microsoft has finally made renting out copies of Windows and Office legal for businesses -- including allowing Internet cafes, airport kiosks and your friendly neighborhood Kinko's to rent the use of Microsoft products as well as the computer itself -- something most were already doing...

What's most striking about the commercial real estate market is how quiet it is. "It's like a storm is brewing and it has everyone standing on the sidelines," says Bob Spratt, president of commercial real estate firm Hill Partners Inc. And that near silence is expected to continue until 2010, when...

Amid all the talk about economic green shoots, small businesses are still hurting, according to the suppliers that sell them paper and pens. "Customers are waiting [to place new orders] until the ink is not visible on paper anymore and buying one cartridge instead of three of four" says Sam Duncan,...

I don't have a Twiiter, I've never had a Twitter, and I never will have a Twitter. But in a sign of social networking site's soaring popularity, and possibly of the apocalpse, the USA Today's business section has done a feature story on it.For the uninitiated. here's a quick summary of how the site...

Every day, WalletPop will be bringing you information about a fantastic freebie. Like what you see? Check back tomorrow for more!3M is offering the favorite toy of the anal retentive office worker: Post-it Flags, those little tabs that you can put at the top of pages in a binder for easy skimming....