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Tweeting With the Stars

Dying to get retweeted by a celebrity? Here are 20 celebrities that will tweet about your business for a price. Dying to get retweeted by a celebrity?

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How to Break Up With Employees

Now, more than ever, departing employees should be treated with care and respect. Serial entrepreneur Dave Balter explains why. To Kim N.: I’m sorry you were dismissed with anger and haste.

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Making a Market in Foreign Exchange

Kevin Millien, COO of Boston Technologies, talks about how he co-founded a software company that connects two participants to do online foreign exchange trading.

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BioBook, A Gates-Funded iPad Textbook, Plans A Free Database For Customized Learning

The BioBook is an interactive iPad biology college textbook that allows students and professors to create their own customized learning experience. Since the launch of the iPad, colledge educators have been seeking an inexpensive alternative to paper textbooks that could leverage the collective knowledge of teachers and students. With a $249,000 grant from the Gates Foundation's

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Hot Off The Twitter Bot: How To Train Your Newspaper To Survive The Digital Age

By embracing a "digital first" approach, The Guardian has seen readership on its website shoot up by over 40% year over the past two years. Its latest feature, the Twitter-scaling search bot @GuardianTagBot, should only help. “It has fun and charm, but it's also fantastically useful and structurally sound,” Janine Gibson, who leads the papers' digital operations in the U.S., tells us

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Is the GOP Bad at Social Media?

Each candidate has his or her own strategy; some work, others fail. Here's what you can learn from the social media accounts of the 2012 presidential candidates.

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Prep Schools Lead The Way On Sustainable Living

A prep school's new environmental center turns energy use into a living game. Illustration by Radio After spending their childhood playing online games, students at Choate Rosemary Hall will soon be able to live inside one

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How Bad Plans And "Good Ideas" Ruin Meetings

Does your company plan things correctly? Or are meetings unproductive due to poor planning? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Getting Things Done (2001) by David Allen.

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Get a "Buy Local" Boost

How can you capitalize on the good will felt toward small business this holiday season? We've scoured the statistics and tapped experts for their best strategies

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Break Into the Big Boxes

Do you dream of seeing your products line the shelves at big box stores or major retailers?

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