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A site started by travel and search industry veterans--including Calvin Yang, who designed Google's image search--gives users a peek at what's inside and outside of a hotel room, before they arrive.

Transaction costs suck up to $50 billion a year out of the economy. But they could be on their way out. Here's why.

Can't do doorbusters or sweeping discounts? Brooklyn Industries's Lexy Funk explains small-retail's tricks for profiting big this shopping season. This year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping weekend was a significant boost for U.S.

Magazine preview: China's first global brand is on the cusp of a critical transition. Which computer maker this year introduced three new tablets , a speedy new smartphone, an edgy new global branding campaign , and the launch of an outer space science competition with Google

For the fourth year in a row, LinkedIn cofounder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman is co-leading "Silicon Valley Comes To The UK"

Economists are trying to quantify both the spread of the 15-year-old biomimicry industry and its economic effects, and the results are eye-opening. Introduced in 2010, the Da Vinci Index is an attempt to quantify the impact of biomimicry in the U.S. Compiled by Lynn Reaser , chief economist at Point Loma Nazarene University's Fermanian Business & Economic Institute in San Diego, the Da Vinci Index measures the use of terms unique to biomimimetic thinking in scientific publications, patents, and grants ( PDF )

You might think a little B-school blather will impress investors and customers.

Almost every other industry has figured out a way to give back while still making a profit. But health-care providers, insurance companies, and big pharma still are trying to squeeze every last dollar out of patients, with bad results.

What's the future of solar energy? Fast Company gets Crystal Ballin' with Lynn Jurich, cofounder of SunRun, which is flourishing in a season that has seen a few high-profile bankruptcies in solar energy. For the latest installment in our futurist series of interviews, Crystal Ballin' , we talk to Lynn Jurich, the 32-year-old cofounder of SunRun , which specializes in installing and operating solar panels on residential rooftops.

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Dont let their age fool you! These longstanding companies are still growing fast. Check out their humble beginnings and rich histories.

Brooklyn Industries founder Lexy Funk shares how she went from making bags out of old billboard material to running retail stores around the country.

The popular game series Deus Ex taps real-world science for its latest installment of a transhuman dystopia. Will Rosellini is a science fiction purist.

Or are truly creative people born with something special? Clayton Christensen discusses his latest book, The Innovator's DNA, which analyzes the traits of CEOs who have disrupted their industries

A new therapy that has caught my attention is hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HOT). When I read the different illnesses it cures, it seems too good to be true. Entrepreneurs are always looking for the next big thing