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A just-released report shows how fake debt collectors, fake state troopers, and fake soulmates are responsible for a new wave of highly complicated online scams.

Meet Doug Ludlow, CEO of the postcard site Hipster, whose viral marketing campaigns have almost overshadowed the product itself.

Watch out, Craigslist: Cinchified aims to match buyers and sellers in a ridiculously simple way.

He seemed destined for music stardom, but instead Amos Winbush III started CyberSynchs, a $13.5 million-a-year New York City-based mobile phone backup company.

After 11 months and $550,000, they had gotten nowhere. Could they really gamble what was left on a hunch? Josh Levy and Ross Cohen left the offices of Beyond.com, a hiring website based outside Philadelphia, feeling like fools.

As Meg Whitman joins Zaarly, an e-commerce start-up, the company's CEO offers advice on finding your company's next advisor, and why you might want to consider a boldfaced name. Bo Fishback believes that Zaarly , the e-commerce start-up he co-founded six months ago, can change the world. But he knows he will need help building it

Jen Bilik, founder of the stationery and gift business Knock Knock, considers herself the company's "creative monarch." Jen Bilik calls herself a productive procrastinator. She took time off from her work as a freelance book editor in 2002, intending to write an illustrated memoir about high school.

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Job boards and Craigslist don't work because everybody's already there.

Experts imagine future prospects for two once-prosperous brands //Our Panel REBOOT CEO Mark Thomann, CEO of River West Brands BRAND CONSULTANT Josh Feldmeth, CEO of Interbrand New York AD MAN Huw Griffith, CEO of M&C Saatchi North America Studebaker Founded in 1852, it began making gasoline cars in 1904 and ceased production in 1966. Geocities In 1994, it was one of the first free sites to build and host a website.

When business owners want a new logo, website, or graphic design work, it's often an arduous and intimidating process that can involve filtering through vast numbers of freelancers' portfolios. Enter 99designs , a four-year-old online marketplace that is quickly becoming to graphic design what Craigslist is to housing listings

This year's Random Hacks of Kindness at Google HQ brought together programmers who tackled simple apps for crisis management, waste reduction, and neighborhood sharing.

The first wave of the Web was about anonymity and aliases. The next wave, led by Facebook, is about real identities. Here's how that's going to change online commerce.

A bootstrapper's guide to saving money on office furniture, phone service, computers, business travel, and more For self-funded entrepreneurs, there are few skills more crucial than the ability to do more with less. That could be why many business owners take pride in hunting down deals and driving hard bargains. In that spirit, we have compiled tips to help you save big on a variety of office necessities.

In the beginning, Web site owners posted words and pictures on their pages. Today we refer to that primitive time as Web 1.0.