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The CEO of BuyCostumes.com has a new method for predicting election results: sales of paper masks in the likenesses of the candidates.

By Ivan Semeniuk, Meredith Wadman, Susan Young, Eric Hand, Eugenie Samuel Reich & Richard Monastersky of Nature magazine "It's not every day you have robots running through your house," Barack Obama quipped last week at the White House science fair, a showcase for student exhibitors that also gave the US president a chance to reiterate a favourite theme. [More]

If Barack Obama is reelected, what would it mean for innovation, startups and science in America? His newly proposed budget--as well as past actions--offer clues

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Steve Case, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra, and NEC Director Gene Sperling use Google's new-ish social tool to talk about Startup America on behalf of the White House

Welcome to my annual list of who’s been naughty and who's been nice as a speaker or communicator. This week comprises my list of 2011’s losers. (Winners will be announced next week.) Joe Paterno:

Now that Kim Kardashian is on Google+, can we say the service has arrived? Nothing signals the success of a social network or propels its growth more than power users, the influentials who boast both clout and Klout. Their mass followings can drive a service's success, from celebs-turned-techies (Ashton Kutcher) to techies-turned-celebs (Robert Scoble)

Last night the president laid out the American Jobs Act, an initiative aimed at lowering unemployment. What does it mean for small business owners and entrepreneurs? In a persuasive speech before a joint session of Congress last night, president Barack Obama revealed his American Jobs Act, which he hopes will improve unemployment and get Americans working again.

GOOD, publishers of the magazine by the same name and the social action platform is acquiring Jumo, the cause-oriented social network created by Facebook and team Barack Obama veteran Chris Hughes. Jumo , the social network created by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes , and designed to help people find good causes and take meaningful action, has been acquired by GOOD , the media platform for "people who want to live well and do good." The amount or terms were not disclosed.

We continue our examination of the business book What Got You Here, Won't Get You There with an interview of author Marshall Goldsmith .

New media consultant Alex Torpey utilized social media to win the Mayoral Race in his New Jersey town. When Barack Obama was running for office in his memorable 2008 campaign, one of the many ways he captivated America was through social networking. He recognized that an online movement could influence offline behavior in politics

A rare randomized study on Facebook by MIT shows how different marketing strategies perform. Brands can increase the number of people who install their Facebook apps by 400% through a combination of private and newsfeed messaging, according to a new MIT study.

From Jon Stewart's The Daily Show to The Onion to Stephen Colbert's The Colbert Report, fake news has become as much a part of the national dialogue as the real news it parodies. During the 2008 presidential campaign, for example, then-candidates Barack Obama and John McCain both appeared on Stewart's program, making Comedy Central almost as much of a campaign stop as "Meet The Press." And while Bill O'Reilly might admonish viewers of such programs as "stoned slackers," at least one study has indicated that fans of fake news are also some of the best-informed. Why are Americans more and more turning to fake news

The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech space--updated all day. Facebook Prepares $100 Billion IPO (Report) Move over, Royal Wedding and Barack Obama Inauguration: Facebook's eventual IPO will eclipse Internet headlines for ages. COO Sheryl Sandberg has said that an IPO is "inevitable," because “No one is buying us, we’re going public.” The reported price would quadruple Google's $23 billion IPO.

Craig Robinson, the basketball coach at Oregon State and Michelle Obamas brother, answers questions about coping with setbacks, what you have to do to get to the No. 1 spot, and Barack Obama