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Also: Barack Obama will be a fan of the Washington Post Company product, according to a begging-to-be-viral promotional video. The Washington Post Company gets with the times in a big way today, with Trove, a personalized news aggregation site. Trove personalizes news in a couple of ways--it uses Facebook Connect to cull information about your interests, and it offers pairs of articles for you to choose from, Hot-or-Not style

01 / Zynga > > For dominating--and monetizing--the social-gaming industry. The largest social-games developer in the world touts hundreds of millions of monthly active users on FarmVille, Treasure Isle, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars, and more

We always hear about hot startups like Foursquare, Instagram, Foodspotting, or GroupMe. But another startup is making more waves than all of these social media companies combined

How Facebook pages psychologically manipulate us into liking brands. Many of the world's most powerful brands are doubling down on Facebook, from President Obama to The New Yorker

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Prospecting, Sales, Marketing – oh my! It can all feel quite overwhelming and frustrating at times, can’t it? Recently, I spoke with an acquaintance who has been in the job market for over a year. I noticed a pattern in John’s marketing of himself that I’ve seen in many business owners as well.

Rashmi Sinha seemed destined for a career in academia. Born and raised in India, she earned her Ph.D. in psychology at Brown University and did her postdoctoral work in cognitive neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley

Willamette University Taught by: Rob Wiltbank Investors excel at sizing up entrepreneurial companies, because they see so many. Rob Wiltbank wants students similarly exposed.

Facebook just introduced a subtle tweak to its user experience: Personal profiles can now be quickly and efficiently converted to business Pages, turning your friends into fans. Facebook is realizing, it seems, that a good way to future profits is to court industry partners. With the launch of a new migration tool, Facebook is letting single users around the world create a more business-centric, limited form of Facebook entry that allows business to have thousands of "fans" rather than acting as an interactive friend resource

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today

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Google encroaches on social, with its new +1 feature. You click on stuff that your friends like.

The founder and CEO of the National Cash Register Co. was known to be a stern control freak.

Last night, Zynga brought virtual reality to real life. At a press event in New York City, the social gaming giant erected highly detailed sets for its most popular games, including a pastoral landscape complete with watering cans and crates of actual FarmVille apples; a dusty old-western saloon for FrontierVille; and an upstairs speakeasy with bartenders serving 1920s-style cocktails in honor of Mafia Wars

New smartphone technologies target parents worried about reckless teen drivers. The market's so hot, apparently, that even average GPS companies are marketing in this space