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• It's official: Craft brewers are beating big beer

  1:02 PM ET Sun, 2 March 2014

  Despite a slowdown in traditional beer production, craft breweries are experiencing almost a 10 percent increase because of shifting consumer tastes.

• Scanning for profit: Drones invade the Arctic

  9:55 AM ET Thu, 20 Feb 2014

  Companies are preparing to launch unmanned aircraft in the Arctic this summer to aid in energy exploration, climatology research and shipping.

• The best perk ever? Unlimited paid vacation

  7:53 AM ET Tue, 18 Feb 2014

  It sounds too good to be true, but companies are starting to let employees take as much time off as they want ... and it's all paid.

• Google makes huge investment in clean energy

  11:39 AM ET Tue, 18 Feb 2014

  Google is moving to solar, wind and other alternative energies to power its data centers and banks of servers.

• Online courses trim billions in personnel training

  9:23 AM ET Fri, 17 Oct 2014

  MOOCs may yet upend higher education. For companies, though, MOOCs are already cutting into the $160 billion spent each year on job training.

• A $99 3-D-printed drone could change toy industry

  11:01 AM ET Fri, 14 Feb 2014

  Three-dimensional printing is going to revolutionize the toy industry, one 3-D printing company exec says.

• Delish! Entrepreneurs sell food made with insects

  9:41 AM ET Thu, 13 Feb 2014

  Insects as a food source? Social entrepreneurs say eating bugs is good for the planet and great for personal nutrition.

• Wearable smart bands set for 350% growth in 2014

  11:14 AM ET Wed, 12 Feb 2014

  Shipments of smart wearable bands – currently a relatively small sector - are set to grow by mammoth proportions in 2014, according to analyst Canalys.

• Fox (and Mindy) push limits of native advertising

  2:27 PM ET Fri, 7 Feb 2014

  An experiment by Fox on a dating website to promote its hit series "The Mindy Project" tests the limits of native advertising.

• Cramer: This soda deal is a 'game changer'

  2:53 PM ET Thu, 6 Feb 2014

  The bear case against Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has evaporated, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Thursday.

• Payback is a switch: Business case for EV charging

  11:14 AM ET Wed, 27 April 2016

  As electric vehicles catch on, business owners wonder whether the upfront cost of an EV charging station will pay them back in terms of customers.

• Cable merger future-proofs against Internet's rise

  10:00 AM ET Fri, 7 March 2014

  Charter's pursuit of Time Warner Cable shows how cable television is trying to protect itself against Internet services like Hulu and Netflix.

• Four smart business lessons from NFL playbook

  4:03 PM ET Fri, 31 Jan 2014

  From Richard Sherman's outburst to Peyton Manning's style, here are some lessons executives can learn from the NFL.

• Obamacare prices may lure employers to exchanges

  11:18 AM ET Thu, 30 Jan 2014

  Premiums for health plans sold on Obamacare exchanges are about the same or cheaper than premiums for employer-offered plans, a study finds.

• Rise of the machines: Robots on the factory floor

  4:48 PM ET Mon, 27 Jan 2014

  Small shops are on the cusp of turning to new, low-cost and more versatile robots in hopes of increasing their productivity and their bottom line.

• Soros-backed fund aims to fix global supply chain

  8:01 AM ET Fri, 24 Jan 2014

  A new Tau Investment Management fund aims to revamp the vast infrastructure that moves millions of products and materials around the world.