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At L.A.'s Digital Music Forum last week , Anu Kirk, a product lead at digital music service MOG, shared some bad news for musicians adapting to the current state of the music industry: "It sucks," he said.

European Wax Center's David Coba (with his siblings) turned a disastrous sideline of his fathers salon business into a national franchise. Though his franchising company now boasts 215 salons, David Coba entered the industry rather reluctantly

For every 10 ears of corn that are grown in the United States today, only 2 are consumed directly by humans as food. The remaining 8 are used in almost equal shares for animal feed and for ethanol .

"It's for anyone in health care who is thinking about innovation," says ILN director Chris McCarthy.

Despite a string of funding challenges in the past year, the picture is not bleak for the carbon capture and sequestration industry. That message is in a new report being released this morning from the Global CCS Institute, an Australia-based organization that studies the industry

I’m often asked the question about why there aren’t more women who are entrepreneurs.

As storms become more powerful and more damaging, will living on the coasts become simply impossible? Insurance companies might try to price you out before we find out.

Brand strategists Chris Bryant says the U.S.

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You've heard bad things about it in the news, but one company's bankruptcy doesn't spell doom for the solar industry, or government funding of energy projects. If you've read any news recently , you've heard of Solyndra , the big solar firm whose bankruptcy is causing headaches for the Obama administration and is being used as evidence that the world isn't ready for solar power.

Since performing research for my book, Climate Capitalism (written with Hunter Lovins) a few years ago, I have become increasingly convinced that the smart grid has the potential to be one of the "holy grails" in the clean tech revolution. I believe that the smart grid can be the enabling technology that enable all kinds of other low-carbon innovations to flourish

Want to make really smart decisions for your company? It's simple as looking into the future and assessing the data--a service that a few young companies dealing in "predictive analytics" are selling. Business swims in a sea of data.

Dr. T cofounded the technology giant that is National Instruments out of his garage more than 35 years with a $10,000 loan. NI's software and hardware is behind robotics and smart cameras to medical diagnostic equipment.

A mobile app that lets people send gift cards to friends is not the work of a deals company. But it is using discounts to deliver customers--especially the specific demographics individual merchants want--into brick-and-mortar stores. Daily deals have exploded into a $4 billion industry almost overnight because there’s no shortage of merchants who would like to lure online customers into their real-world establishments.

Some businesses are using social networks to find mentors for their staff. Kathleen Lim wanted to move up the learning curve.