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Los Angeles-based startup Styku is chasing the Holy Grail of the online apparel business: making a virtual fitting room that actually works. How they're overcoming the various challenges of apparel software, including the most vexing problem of all--outfitting virtual breasts

My entrepreneurial journey has seen me start and exit four companies, one of which, my research business, was acquired by a public company.

Since I live in New York and work in digital media I sometimes mistakenly feel like the entrepreneurial community is made up entirely of button-down wearing iPad-carrying 20- or 30-something guys who talk about the latest venture-capital deals, update around the clock through Twitter, Foursquare and LinkedIn, and just last month or year started some sort of online technology service or app that’s still in beta or stealth mode. If there’s anything the 650 attending the Women Presidents’ Organization annual conference this year in Vancouver make clear, that’s not the whole startup story.

Following the recent disaster in Japan, the Tokyo Hackerspace --an open community space where hackers get together to play with hardware (among other things)--channeled its hive mind not into its usual playing with lasers and forgetting to shower, but rather into helping the country recover from earthquake and nuclear-related woes. The Tokyo Hackerspace's most high-profile project is its NETRAD geiger shield, an open-source geiger counter shield that detects local radiation levels. Eventually, the hackerspace hopes to expand its sensor network to the Fukushima region

New research suggests showing kids how to drink encourages them to abuse it later

1. Hot rumors are circulating this morning that Apple has bought the domain name iCloud.com from network cloud storage firm Xcerion in Sweden. Inside sources say Xcerion sold the name to Apple for about $4.5 million--and it's rebranded its system to CloudMe.

Philadelphia residents have a new weapon for fighting municipal corruption: An iPhone app that lets them send photos and video of money-wasting city employees directly to the controller's office. One crusading Philadelphia politician is using iPhones to fight corruption and fraud. City Controller Alan Butkovitz announced the launch of Philly Watchdog , an anti-corruption iPhone application, on April 19

Simple questionnaire effective at identifying at-risk kids even before their first birthday

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Scientists find match in leprosy strain between some patients and armadillos, which harbor bacteria that causes the disease

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There's pro-business and then there's pro-oligarchy. Our current Supreme Court, I believe, has crossed that line.

With huge budgets and entire departments dedicated to social media, big business has conceived of some very innovative ways to use social media. Here are some lessons that small business can take away from these campaigns