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Sheena Lindahl and Michael Simmons met their third day of college and started dating on their fourth. Both are business-oriented by nature; Lindahl juggled five jobs to pay for New York University and Simmons ran a Web development shop in high school. "My friend and I made $40,000 our senior year of high school, working 10 hours per week," says Simmons.

We humans can so easily give in to our vices. Something as simple as a credit card can weaken self-control. The good news is that the reverse is also true: cash can buffer us from indulgence.

The Melt, how businesses can reduce credit card fees, Roost reinvents itself, a career makeover, and a CEO's rockstar mentality. From Flip to Grilled Cheese.

"Street Smarts" columnist and senior contributing editor Norm Brodsky is a veteran entrepreneur who has founded and built six businesses.

Digital security firm Symantech has discovered a new type of viral exploit that tries to crack open a user's Bitcoin wallet and steal its contents--the virtual answer to the old-fashioned bank heist. But what's a Bitcoin, and why would anyone want one when there are gold bricks and paper dollars still ripe for a swindle?

Area 51 doesn't exist officially, but newly declassified images show an exciting glimpse into its secretive past: An A12 aircraft (shown under radar testing here), stealthy forerunner to the amazing BlackBird, crashed out in the desert and had to be completely covered up so no data leaked. It was a success, until now. 1.

Did you know that on this day in history Alcoholics Anonymous was founded, Saab made its first auto, and the first Apple II computer shipped? That was then, this is what's happening today: This is part of a 1977 advert for the Apple II. Yup, he's working the numbers over a cuppa joe while she's chopping food for dinner.

Square's gone after the clunky old cash register. Now Google's trying to reinvent how we pay for even more things

A company that started out looking to join the social commerce revolution found an opportunity in simply being useful to people trying to manage email receipts. Inboxes are the new wallets--stuffed with too many receipts to even begin to organize. That’s why Project Slice is today launching a new application that will automatically scan your emails and collect all your purchase information in a single place.

With Google's new Correlate system, companies have a powerful (and, free!) new data-mining tool on their hands. Let us imagine the ways in which we'll use it. With

1. Google's open NFC credit card secret is now confirmed: Launch partners The Container Store and Vivotech accidentally confirmed that the system is on its way in September, will be dubbed Google Wallet and that it'll all be revealed at the special Google event later today.

"Existing models don't go away until they are replaced by models that work better," PayPal's Anuj Nayar tells us. "The consumer needs to see the benefit beyond, 'This is just cool.'" When it came to the perhaps over-embellished headlines from Square's announcement yesterday--the end of the cash register as we know it!--PayPal spokesperson Anuj Nayar couldn't help but chuckle. After all, PayPal has been in the payments business roughly 12 years and boasts 98 million users

1. Sony's hack woes have deepened--now its Canadian version of the eShop has been hacked by a self-professed grey hat Lebanese hacker, and 2,000 customer records have been acquired (evidence for around 1,000 posted online).

Start-ups are always looking to increase revenue or save costs. When Sean Harper was running his e-commerce business, he started looking at costs, and zeroed in on how much he was paying his credit card processor

Square promises to put an end to the headaches of traditional purchases: having to fumble with your wallet, exchange and swipe the credit card, wait for a paper receipt. But someone still needs to convince merchants.