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Dr. Jennifer Ashton spoke with Erica Hill on who is most at risk of radiation exposure after Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station experienced a partial meltdown.

1. Facebook 's leaping aboard the daily deals/coupon bandwagon, and will be testing out its own Groupon-like service in a limited list of U.S.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Every day the U.S. imports $1 billion worth of oil.

The threat of cyber-war--and of a catastrophic hacker attack to Germany's industrial or military infrastructure--is spurring the creation of two new high-level government organizations. The Federal Republic of Germany has just released a comprehensive cyber-security strategy that will create two high-level government agencies devoted exclusively to cyber-war

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Dr. Jennifer Ashton on varying degrees of danger people in Japan face, what could happen and how soon

As applications for the 2011 Inc. 500 | 5000 pour into our offices, we thought it would be worthwhile to shine a spotlight on some of the companies that are vying to appear on our ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. (For more information and to apply, go to http://www.inc.com/inc5000apply/2011/ .) One that caught our eye was Cotati, California-based KG Technologies .

"What's the short code for American Idol?" asks Joseph Gillespie, CEO of mobile marketing company Zoove, referring to the show's text-message voting system. "It's the largest use-case in history, but no one can remember it because the number doesn't make any sense." How brands connect to consumers is a huge headache for marketers--not just Idol fans--who've now tried almost every trick in the book to get your attention. SMS messages ("Text YES to 45938993"), QR codes, Facebook profiles, website addresses--you can't find an advertisement today that doesn't feature at least one of these marketing tactics

The founder of the Web message board 4Chan took the stage at SXSW to explain how his new project, Canvas, could far exceed 4Chan's 12-million-user popularity with Facebook-friendly appeal. Like your daughter bringing home an ex-convict for dinner and saying that he's actually a "really good guy," Christopher "moot" Poole explained how the virtue of 4Chan--instantaneous collaborative creativity--could overshadow its darker, dirtier proclivities by gaining new life in a project called Canvas .

Sunday's Groupon panel on the Fast Company and PepsiCo stage took an unexpected turn when Travis Kalanick , a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur who runs online car service Uber , spoke frankly about his negative experiences as a client of Groupon --and several Groupon staffers in the audience took issue with the story he told.

This is a promotional blog post. I was asked to cover the SXSW Film Festival screening of Morgan Spurlock's new documentary, POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold , which attempts to take a meta-look at the concept of product placement via a documentary funded entirely by product placement, because of promotional considerations: Fast Company, my employer, is featuring Spurlock, his movie, and his take on the concept of "selling out vs. buying in" as a story in the April issue

Nick Price won the Toshiba Classic on Sunday for his fourth career Champions Tour title, holding off Mark Wiebe by a stroke at Newport Beach Country Club.

Early adopters of the iPad 2 have only had the weekend to play with their new toy. That was enough time for the first reports of possible defects to come to the surface

Jimmy Roberts interviews Nick Watney after winning the 2011 WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral in Florida. (NBC Sports)

Burmester unveiled its 838 Phono Preamplifier more than 20 years ago. Today, the German brand, long known for its state-of-the-art electronics, has applied such wisdom to produce another masterpiece of analog reproduction, the Phono Preamplifier 100, which features Burmester’s trademark polished -chrome front panel and thus fits perfectly alongside the ...