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Robert Hegyes, an actor best known for his role as Juan Epstein on the 1970s hit sitcom "Welcome Back Kotter," died in New Jersey at the age of 60. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Jon Rubinstein Leaves HP . Rubinstein , formerly of Apple and then lead at Palm during its efforts to rival the iPhone, is leaving HP

Newt Gingrich's bold plans for a moon base dominated last night's GOP debate.

The best and brightest stigmatize sales jobs. But they're fundamental to the success or failure of small business.

Leo Widrich, co-founder of the social media management tool Buffer, on how to get more out of your Tweets. If you love Twitter —and you also have a life—you probably use Buffer to schedule your tweets: To make announcements at a specific time, to send time-sensitive tweets like for limited-time offers, to communicate when your followers are most likely to notice, and to avoid membership in the tweet-a-minute club

Do your customers really trust your company? Ask yourself: If you were the customer, would you trust your company?

New report finds huge decline in lower extremity amputations in past decade

The Groupon CEO talks about competing with Google, selling his stock, and his designs on mobile coupons.

We're living in a world of beta tests and products that are released and then improved.

If 2012 is the year of Big Data, it will likely be the year vendors and consultants start to over-promise, under-deliver, and put processes in motion that will generate insights and potential risks for years to come. This year will be the year of Big Data.

When brands ask consumers to snap a product photo and text or email it in, Pongr recognizes the image and replies. Is that really better than QR codes? We asked its president

"We're rapidly moving to a world beyond plastic," says Ed McLaughlin. "In many ways, plastic is just convenient packaging." McLaughlin heads up emerging payments at MasterCard, and he's tasked with thinking big on the future of transaction technology. His group has dreamed up loads of creative ways to accept payments, from hacking an Xbox Kinect to pay-by-hand motion, to implanting NFC tech in ultrabooks , to scanning irises to prevent credit card fraud.

A new report says it may. Dr. Holly Phillips reports.

Chinese tech outfits are gaining steam against their Silicon Valley counterparts.

A Silicon Valley CEO tells how he learned that company values aren't a nice add-on. They're mandatory to holding your business together.