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01 / Groupon > > For integrating web and the real-world shopping experience, changing consumer behavior, democratizing small businesses, and spawning an entire new category. The fastest-growing company in Web history, Groupon's flash deal site marries cents-off coupons to a Friday-after-Thanksgiving shopping frenzy. The company broke into the black just seven months after inception; globally, more than 500 copycat sites have already sprung up.

Critics of RIM's BlackBerry and PlayBook tablet say the devices are falling behind the technological curve.

Call it a comedy of laptop errors.

As applications for the 2011 Inc.

The beautiful thing about disposing of your old electronics is that doing the right thing gives you more than a rosy feeling; it can actually pay you.

In 2009 six weeks of wildfires in Victoria, Australia, killed 173 people and injured hundreds more, but the fires may have also led to the resurrection of a rare tree that was previously on a path to extinction. Only about 670 Buxton silver gum trees ( Eucalyptus crenulata ) were left in the wild before the devastating Black Sunday bushfires , and they weren't healthy

1. Apple TV rumors, of the big-screen rather than plug-in-peripheral kind, have come and gone. But over the last day or so a huge debate on the topic has arrived online with some heavyweight names taking part .

1. RIM's embargo on review editions of its PlayBook tablet expired this morning, so the news is full of expert opinion on the tablet PC RIM hopes will revive its future fortunes

In this installment, "The Big Thirst" author and Fast Company writer explains how every drop of water you'll ever know, from the spigot to the toilet, is about 4.3 billion years old. Facts: Two things about water are indisputable. Water is the most familiar substance in our lives, its look and feel and appeal as routine as the spray of the shower or the splash of the kitchen faucet.

In this installment, "The Big Thirst" author and Fast Company writer explains how every drop of water you'll ever know, from the spigot to the toilet, is about 4.3 billion years old. Facts: Two things about water are indisputable

The unique virtual shipyard Diverse Projects, based out of Auckland, New Zealand, handed over the custom 103-foot (31.5-meter) long-range displacement yacht Black Pearl to its owners at the end of January. Named after a Tahitian black pearl, the yacht carries out a lighthearted pirate theme while proving to be more ...

New data from research firm Common Sense Advisory suggests that if your brand is to achieve truly global reach in our online world, your website must "speak" more than 16 languages.

More hardware companies are introducing superfast laser printers, capable of shooting out dozens of pages per minute, thanks to powerful processors. Just how fast are they?

Security for smartphones is crucial, now that so many of us use them to make business calls, check work e-mail, and store information. We sampled several apps designed to take the risk out of computing on your phone.

The Scientific American supplement from December 4th, 1886 featured a drawn reproduction of a photograph taken of Amanab, the “Greek Giant.” Amanab was born in 1868 near Kerassond in Trebizonde--a successor state of the Byzantine Empire located on the Southern shore of the Black Sea. At the time of the article, he was 18 years old and measured 7 feet 9 inches in height, had a head circumference of 26