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Steve Jobs is out, and Tim Cook is in. It's too early to tell what the future holds, but here's a look at upcoming Apple product launches. With Steve Jobs exiting as Apple CEO, one has to wonder: What does this mean for the tech giant’s near-term product launches?

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Instead of cashing in on what could be a $1.2 trillion industry, our patchwork collection of local, city, and state governments fight over who should pay to update our infrastructure. This needs to stop. The hottest wave in technology today is not about the individual consumer, but the “smart city.”

Kauffman Foundation analysis shows even successful small businesses aren't adding jobs at the rates they did in previous decades. New businesses are starting smaller, surviving less often, and creating fewer jobs even when they thrive, according to new research. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s analysis of Labor Department and U.S

It's time to start writing epitaphs.

What's up with all those green-collar jobs we keep being promised? A new report shows they aren't necessarily where you would think they'd be.

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Learning to take responsibility for your mistakes Lately, several CEOs of troubled businesses have come to me for help, and they've reminded me of an important lesson: You've got to take responsibility for the messes you get your company into. Problems will keep resurfacing until you recognize how your actions helped create them in the first place. That may seem obvious, but most people have a hard time seeing the role they played.

How much are Americans being paid in 2011? What effect has the recession had?

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How can you get your non-sales employees to help "sell" your business? If you have salespeople, you know what they're usually motivated by: cold hard cash. And if they're not, they shouldn't be your salespeople

A new school for 30 under-30 marketers opens at the Cannes Lions festival. But can creativity be taught in a week? The Cannes Lions was once an event solely for advertising creatives

By increasing the volume of "spray-and-pray" candidates, is LinkedIn really helping the hiring process?

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The crucial element in well-run companies? Leaders who know what they believe in.