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Reading the vague fine print on cruise transfers

Ground transfers are supposedly included in Robert Brown's Viking River Cruise. But he supposes wrong, and now he's being asked to pay extra for them.

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Buyers Circle Yahoo, RIM Expands Enterprise Servers to Android/iOS, ARM Launches Android Development Kit

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. [youtube SH-LEYKzXDg] Daredevil Jetman Yves Rossy flew recently his jet-powered wings in one of the most daring maneuvers yet: In tight formation with jet aircraft from the Breitling team

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When Lack of Nerve Is Your Biggest Obstacle

What happens when an entrepreneur does everything right... but can't seize the day. Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life

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Question for Job Creators: What Is A Good Job?

As someone who works with entrepreneurs for a living, I'm always very proud of the role business owners play in supporting the economy. As someone who works with entrepreneurs for a living, I'm always very proud of the role business owners play in supporting the economy. Among the many by-products of their efforts is job creation.

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Why You Shouldn’t Care About Facebook’s IPO

Don't look to Facebook's financial future to learn much; it's the company's early history that start-up founders should study. In case you hadn't heard the latest rumors—that is, in case you've been off-planet for the last day or two— Facebook plans a $100 billion valuation IPO , probably in the April to June 2012 range. Lots of buzz about this in high tech, but don't pay any attention

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How to Design Your Business Card

Tips to create a business card that helps you build relationships, and win business. Also get advice from Shama Kabani, CEO of the Marketing Zen Group.

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Mallika Chopra on Harnessing the Power of Intent

The daughter of Deepak Chopra talks about choosing--and achieving--what you really want in life. Intent means "purpose." No one understands this better than Mallika Chopra. Taught how to meditate at the age of nine by her world-renowned father Deepak Chopra, an authority in the practice of mind-body medicine and spiritual healing, Mallika is well-versed on how to harness the power of intention.

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Flavors.me Wants To Curate Your Fragmented Social Media

Oversharing is an overwhelming problem online. Keeping up with all your news and interests and social channels can be exhausting--it's why innumerable aggregators exist (from Huffington Post to Reddit and Pinterest) to help us manage our consumption habits. Today, the startup Flavors.me takes another swipe at the problem, launching a new version of the service aimed at tackling our social media A.D.D

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Carl F. Bucherer’s Center of Attention

The steel Manero CentralChrono ($7,100) by Carl F. Bucherer breaks from traditional chronograph design by using centrally mounted hands to track the elapsing minutes and seconds of the stopwatch function instead of typical sub-dial totalizers.

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No Joke. BustedTees Drives Holiday Sales

CollegeHumor co-founder Josh Abramson gets serious about his next venture: funny t-shirts. In 1999, when Josh Abramson was a sophomore in college, he co-founded the website CollegeHumor, a central portal where he and his friends could post funny pictures and videos they were circulating anyway. Five years later, looking to diversify revenue streams, Abramson started BustedTees, which sells t-shirts and other knickknacks that carry many of the funny slogans from CollegeHumor

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