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Bre Pettis's MakerBot has attracted millions in financing and is selling its 3-D printers as fast as it can. So how big can his business get?

Sometimes the Web services you rely on crash... or get taken down by the feds (sorry, Megaupload.com!).

They're affordable, full of start-up geeks like you, and way cooler than any office you could afford. Ready to get out of the basement and into a real office? Before you strike out on your own and get locked into a lease, consider a coworking space.

As technology generates more transparency, consumers will hold businesses to higher standards, with no room for flimflammery or deceit. Being proactively trustworthy requires you to watch out for your customer’s interest even when your customer isn’t paying attention. This past Christmas season Amazon stole business from brick-and-mortar retailers with its free Price Check app for iPhone and Android.

Brazil boasts the industrialized world's most renewable energy mix. To maintain this status while growing its electricity system to serve millions of new customers, the country is planning a major expansion of hydroelectric power in the Amazon Basin -- one of the most important ecological systems in the world. [More]

The Amazon rainforest is in flux, thanks to agricultural expansion and climate change. In other words, humans have "become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon Basin," as an international consortium of scientists wrote in a review of the state of the science on the world's largest rainforest published in Nature on January 19.

So you got a degree. Now it's time to face the realities of running a business, including these lessons you didn't learn in the classroom. At the end of our first year in business I got on my knees and prayed to God for a sign: whether we should continue our business

Amazon's erotica section isn't just rife with tales of lust, incest, violence, and straight-up kink. It's also a hotbed of masked merchants profiting from copyright infringement. And even with anti-piracy legislation looming, Amazon doesn't appear too eager to stop the forbidden author-on-author action

Blockbuster is finally coming to the iPad. The video-rental company, which Dish Network acquired in April, has been trying to remake itself in the eyes of consumers after last year's bankruptcy sale

Most people think about apps running on their smartphones, but we're seeing more and more web services launching app "stores" that allow you to beef up your account. LinkedIn's list of apps is relatively small compared to other popular marketplaces, but what the site lacks in quantity it makes up in quality

As 2011 winds to a close and 2012 begins, we do a little bit of Fast Company drumbeating. We predict a lot of stuff around here. Sometimes we're wrong.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Letter That Ousted HP CEO Now Public . The eight-page letter that accused Mark Hurd, then CEO of Hewlett-Packard, of sexually harassing an employee, is now public.

As 2011 winds to a close and 2012 begins, we do a little bit of Fast Company drumbeating. We predict a lot of stuff around here

The daily deals giant is offering a credit to buyers who support local businesses. Is Groupon the scourge or savior of small business? The online deals giant certainly is goodwill hunting this season by offering a $10 credit to the first 150,000 people who buy a local Groupon by Dec.