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Daily Deals site LivingSocial is growing fast in a brand-new industry.

Facial recognition, eavesdropping apps, augmented reality...these aren't security protocols but new ways for you to be able to market your business. Marketing isn’t what it used to be.

If you going to ask for a handout, do so carefully and deliberately. You don't want to just jump into a relationship with an investor.

New York commuters can ride a vintage 1920 train in September, compliments of Nucky Thompson. The MTA is going older school than usual starting Labor Day weekend, compliments of your favorite lovable crime lord, Nucky Thompson. As part of the “Compliments of Nucky” campaign promoting the September 25 return of period drama Boardwalk Empire, HBO is putting a vintage 1920s train back on the track on New York's 2 / 3 line (Nucky refers to the show's central character, played by Steve Buscemi).

oBaz is short for online bazaar, and like that famously fluid market environment, it's all about haggling to get what you want.

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) has been profitable in only one of the past eight years. So where did Stewart go wrong

Not all financings are created equal. This is especially true when you factor in the different stages that your company will evolve through over its lifetime

With 500,000 downloads in less than a month, a neo-noir thriller by newcomer Justin Eugene Evans shoots down the standard distribution model in favor of video-sharing site VODO. For director Justin Eugene Evans, making the movie was the easy part.

The number has reached 2008 levels, but the news isn't all good. Sales of small businesses with revenues of about $350,000 rose eight percent in the second quarter of 2011 over the same period last year, but the news isn’t quite as good as it sounds. Although sales of businesses have hit the highest level since the end of 2008, a lot of sales are because owners are accepting that their businesses aren’t worth what they once were

Grouponone of the fastest growing companies everhas proven the formula works with its estimated $750 million IPO. Can still you break into the crowded daily deals space?

If it's good enough for Entourage's Ari Gold to close his deals here, then it qualifies as a power spot for us. But seriously, Mastro's Steakhouse in Beverly Hills is more than just a pretty setting for fake agents on TV shows: The restaurant—dark and intimate downstairs, and more raucously old-school (complete with piano bar) upstairs—is a great place for a special-occasion dinner.

At the AllThingsD conference Wednedsay, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings expressed lots of love for the high-end content produced by premium cable stars HBO and Showtime.

Dorsey and Square COO Keith Rabois talk to Fast Company about their unintentional, design-driven revolution, what it means for the cash register space, the deals space, and the future of buying ... everything

Groupon has already conquered the daily deals market--now they're trying to take over all other deals, too. But they may be missing one big piece of the puzzle: a social network. Groupon has already conquered the daily deals market--now they're trying to take over all other deals, too

Yep, they are 30-day hack-a-thons--and they are helping launch big products, including Facebook Deals. Welcome to what one Facebooker calls "a playground for engineers." Tech giants such as Google to Facebook are famous for hack-a-thons, all-night marathon coding sessions where eager employees build something unrelated to their current projects