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Introducing A Priceline For Live Events

Concerts and sporting events have long needed a way to efficiently fill every seat in the house. ScoreBig might be the ticket.

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The Secrets Behind Google’s Push Into Renewable Power

In the past two weeks, Google has made two staggeringly large renewable energy investments: a $168 million investment in the Ivanpah solar farm, and a $100 million investment in the world's largest wind farm . We had a chance to speak with the man behind these investments--Rick Needham, Google's Director of Green Business Operations and Strategy (pictured in stylish duds, center)--to find out why the search engine giant has seemingly all of a sudden become a major clean energy player. When Needham came to Google in 2008, the company had already made early-stage clean energy investments through Google.org (the company's philanthropic arm), but Needham spent most of his time figuring out how to make Google's own operations more energy efficient.

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China: The Small Steps Forward

Text and Photographs by Mark Leong For the residents of one neighborhood in Shenzhen, China, the New Balance sneaker is more than a shoe.

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China Gets Copyright Right, Punishes Baidu For Pirate Music Links

China may be wising up to international condemnation of its lax copyright protection standards, as the Ministry of Culture has revealed it will "punish" local search giant Baidu for facilitating illegal music downloads.

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A Vision Of Our Shopping Future

A pair of apps try to remake the experience of shopping. Are they the game-changers they think they are? Two new apps--one for the iPad, the other for the iPhone--intend to remake the way we shop

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13 foods never to feed your dog

Safe for people may not mean safe for pets, and some items on do-not-feed list might surprise you

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Truvia’s Test: Can Diet Sweeteners Go Natural?

Illustration by Dan Winters When supersecretive agriculture giant Cargill decided to attack the no-calorie-sweetener market dominated by Sweet'N Low, Splenda, and Equal, it sent its best marketers and scientists to basement war rooms and covert labs. Only now can the inside story of Truvia -- and its unlikely success -- be told. SAYS ZANNA MCFERSON , plucking a stevia leaf from a plant on her desk and biting into it, "I knew there had to be something we could do with it." Through the expansive windows of her corner office at Cargill's headquarters, an Aspen-like mega-lodge on the outskirts of suburban Minneapolis, she stares out at the snowy pines and at the horizon beyond

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A New Way to Find Parking Spots Online (And Pay What They’re Really Worth)

San Francisco, with a large population crammed into a very small footprint, can be notoriously hard to park in. But, as it's also one of the tech-savviest cities in the country, they've come up with a solution to make it easier to find a place to leave your car and to better value parking places

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Complete Rules of Entrepreneurship

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. Entrepreneurs, defined

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Women in Technology Face an Uphill Battle

The facts paint a grim picture . Women make up half of the U.S. workforce but represent only 25 percent of the technology industry.

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