Chobani has come a long way since the days of one buyer, five employees and the remains of a shuttered yogurt plant in New York. The Small Business Administration on Tuesday announced that the enormously popular Greek yogurt maker will take home its national Entrepreneurial Success of the Year Award for 2012. Now the top yogurt seller in the country, Chobani was recognized for its dramatic growth in sales and employees as well as its charitable contributions to its surrounding communities.

By Charles Black - As the space shuttles take their place in museums, having retired from service in 2011, what is NASA's strategy for the future of spaceflight? NASA wants "routine access" for both cargo and crew to the space station, and has also set its sights on deep space exploration for the longer term. To achieve these objectives NASA is outsourcing low-Earth orbit spaceflight to the commercial sector whilst developing its own capabilities for travel beyond low-Earth orbit.

Turkish American Business Conference (TABCON 2012), the leading business and networking event organized by Turkish American Business Connection Association (TABC), will be held on May 5th, 2012, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. This full day conference attended by hundreds of professionals will focus on "the entrepreneur" and offer a series of panels emphasizing current trends in the entrepreneurial and investor community.

A new magazine has filled a gap in the market in Turkey: Âlâ is a monthly publication aimed at women who wear a veil. After just a few months, it's already selling almost as many copies as the Turkish version of 'Elle.'Since it hit the shelves in June last year, Ala magazine has become a feature of the Turkish high street. The brainchild of two Turkish businessmen, it's a fashion and beauty magazine aimed at women who wear the veil. "We're saying that veiled women can follow fashion. There are more and more products on the market that veiled women can use. We're saying: let's not remain stuck with just one style," says Editor-in-chief, Ala Hülya Aslan.