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The startup's capital comes from big names like Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock, and its tech team includes a co-founder of Silicon Graphics and the man who was the chief architect for Palm's revolutionary webOS software.

Turns out that building bike lanes isn't just a benefit for bikers. Building those bike lanes provides a big boost to the economy.

I'm pleased, although not surprised, by the incredible wave of reactions to and comments about my post, "Great People Are Overrated." (I'm also not surprised by the vitriol and personal nature of some of the barbs aimed at me. That seems to go with the territory whenever you question an article of faith among the web startup crowd.) My guess is that the post touched a nerve because it touched on one of the great dividing lines in our business culture today. As members of an economy, a society, and a collection of companies, all of us are engaged in a conversation (sometimes explicit, mainly implicit) about what makes the world go 'round -- individual brilliance or group genius, self-possessed superstars or well-rounded teams.

Here's how you may soon charge your phone by tapping on it rather than plugging it in. Thanks, science! Australian researchers have made a breakthrough in thin-film piezoelectric technology, working out a way to turn the chunky piezo electric tech we're already familiar with into super-thin layers that are actually much more useful. If your eyes glaze over at the merest mention of physics then at least read this: The tech could abolish wall wart power plugs forever.

Women are more prolific networkers in male-dominated industries. Is social media correcting the real-life old-boys' club? Women are the best networkers in the tobacco and ranching industries; men rule cosmetics, according to LinkedIn 's new study of the 21st century workforce, Battle of the Sexes, in which the social network tapped its massive trove of user data to examine gender imbalances between industries.

People taking high dose statins found to be 12 percent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes

More small businesses are choosing to pay out-of-pocket for employee health claims, rather than a fixed monthly premium to an insurance carrier. Here are the pros and cons. As insurance premiums skyrocket and uncertainty surrounds the 2010 health care reform bill, small and mid-sized companies are increasingly looking to contain a spiraling employee health bill

John Schmitt opted to self-fund his employees' medical claims, and saw his company health insurance costs drop 20 percent. John Charles Schmitt II , who heads up Plans for Professionals, a 300-person life insurance firm in Orange, Connecticut, used to work with Connecticut Blue Cross and Blue Shield to cover his employee health insurance costs. But as premiums rose and new healthcare guidelines started to come into effect, even Schmitt—who played ten football seasons with the Jets, won the 1969 Super Bowl with quarterback Joe Namath and had 16 operations due to football injuries—became nervous.

He is the founder of Trada, a crowdsourced paid search marketplace, as well as the founder of the Crowdsortium, an organization for crowdsourcing professionals.

Now that we've sequenced human DNA, we move on to our six-legged friends, whose genes might yield important and lucrative discoveries in many fields. The Human Genome Project was a $3.8 billion undertaking that has so far yielded over $800 billion in economic output.

PGT: This might come as a surprise to some, but the 22-year-old U.S. Open champion has no grand designs of an American invasion.

%excerpt% Originally posted here: PGT: No surprise — Tiger to miss AT&T National

Danny Jakubowitz suffered for 21 years with epilepsy; Five months after risky brain surgery, he's seizure-free

Newly crowned U.S.

CBS News RAW: Hundreds of yoga enthusiasts filled the northern half of New York City's Times Square in a massive group yoga class organizers called, 'Mind over Madness'.