No life-science company in the Triangle completed an initial public offering last year, illustrating the industry’s struggles since the recession. But three already have gone or filed to go public in 2013.

Piedmont Triad Research Park in Winston-Salem is rebranded as Wake Forest Innovation Quarter.

The Triangle is making a name for itself in the industry by blending financial services with its trademark — high-technology

Cover story: A hot deal for electronic-cigarette seller blu ecigs shows where there’s no smoke, there’s fire.

Raleigh communications agency Capstrat Inc. sold itself to Ketchum Inc. to expand its reach.

Small Business of the Year Runner-up: Fuentek LLC is based on a simple premise: Brilliant minds often have tunnel vision. Potentially lucrative findings and inventions collect dust at academic institutions and government agencies because their creators don’t envision their commercial viability.

Cover story: RTI International thinks it can continue to flourish by using minds over matters.

Locked and loaded, Epic Games blasts its way up this year's ranking of private companies.

Top private companies in North Carolina are growing by acquisitions, reinvesting, rebranding, introducing new products and gaining new partners.

Shareholder return is rising faster than CEO compensation, our list shows. And that’s without a nay say-on-pay vote

Shareholder return is rising faster than CEO compensation, our list shows. And that’s without a nay say-on-pay vote

The tepid growth of the Top 75's market value reflects the recovery's current sluggish pace.

Up Front: We redesigned out website, aiming to give readers more news and easier ways to find the magazine's contents.

When Bob Geolas was a boy, his father took him to see construction at Research Triangle Park. Now he's the president and CEO of the Research Triangle Park Foundation of North Carolina.

Raleigh-based Progress Energy Inc., which plans to eliminate 700-1,000 jobs after its proposed merger with Charlotte-based Duke Energy Corp., agreed to sublease 380,000 square feet at Two Progress Plaza to Red Hat Inc. through August 2035.

Cover story: A software CEO evangelizes entrepreneurship, preaching to prisoners that the way to be free is to start your own business.