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Launching a new brand is expensive. Far easier, these days: Bring back (or polish up) an old one. "At one point , we were going to call ourselves 'The Re Company,'" says Mark Thomann.

Given the modern scale of Facebook-- deals with Ticketmaster , moving to a huge new campus , and everybody you know using it--it’s hard to imagine the company moving fast enough to mimic the features of the social network Google launched just two months ago. But anyone who’s spent 10 minutes inside Google+ will see quite a few similarities to what’s coming to their Facebook account

Why do you put things off, buy over-priced items, and stick with decisions that aren't paying off? Your strangely wired brain, silly.

Online dating startups are using quirky concepts, and emerging technology--from facial recognition to geolocation--to challenge traditional predecessors like Match.com and eHarmony. Where’s the love and where’s the money? Like so much online content, love don't cost a thing.

Caffeine is a trickier substance than we generally acknowledge. Here's what you need to know to get more out of caffeine--starting with a suggestion to go cold turkey. Caffeine seems so simple, even if you're a veteran user.

Creatives gravitate to a showy New York hotel lobby to work hard and look good doing so.

Tackling the topic of neuromarketing for Fast Company magazine, our author finds himself talking to the CEO of top neuromarketing firm NeuroFocus, and wonders how much can Pradeep really tell from his brain scan. I'm in a ballroom inside New York's Marriot Marquis at the 75th annual Advertising Research Foundation conference, meeting with A.K. Pradeep, founder and CEO of NeuroFocus, a Berkeley, CA-based research firm that analyzes brain waves to reveal what consumers really want.

The payments space is evolving quickly, and lots of NFC-enabled schemes are brewing, but SparkBase has leaped ahead and is launching a wireless store loyalty card scheme that works using existing tech.

The sole supply of Ospina Coffee Co.’s latest blend, Ospina Dynasty Coffee, Premier Grand Cru, Grand Reserve—a mere 100 pounds available for the year—went up for grabs in late May. After five years of development and planning, the Charlotte, N.C.–based company released the limited- production coffee this year to celebrate ...

The sole supply of Ospina Coffee Co.’s latest blend, Ospina Dynasty Coffee, Premier Grand Cru, Grand Reserve—a mere 100 pounds available for the year—went up for grabs in late May. After five years of development and planning, the Charlotte, N.C.–based company released the limited- production coffee this year to celebrate ...

There was a lot of snickering Thursday after Groupon announced an IPO valuing it at $30 billion. But the company might actually be worth a lot more than people think. It didn’t take long after Groupon filed for an IPO Thursday that valued the company at $20 billion for the snark to start flying around the web.

Two very big developments are about to happen in the NFC space, and together they might eliminate credit cards as we know them. Google has been courting the idea of NFC technology for a while, and it now seems poised to launch a potential game-changer (as Google is wont to do). The Wall Street Journal reported that an announcement from Google on Thursday will reveal its new NFC mobile-payment tech

The early Facebook investor just gave 24 kids $100,000 each to leave college, plus Zynga's looming IPO, and the rest of today's news. Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today

The “list” gets longer and longer. Ideas and goals fall to the wayside remaining incomplete or never even seeing the light of day. There’s just no time; even less energy.