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When the infomercial company Beachbody introduced a set of fitness DVDs called P90X in 2005, the product bombed. Carl Daikeler explains how he turned it into $700m in sales. When the infomercial company Beachbody introduced a $120 set of home fitness DVDs called P90X in 2005, the product bombed.

Collaboration--or lack of it--can determine whether an enterprise survives or fails, William Bratton told an audience at the Inc.

Voxy is more than Rosetta Stone meets The New York Times--it also provides location-based lessons about your immediate surroundings, and provides access to tutors via video chats. "Language learning is like learning how to cook or how to surf," says Voxy founder Paul Gollash. It’s not something that is best learned in a classroom.

Technically it's a yapp (get it, your app?), but it still might change your life.

There’s a new generation gap brewing.

A new startup hopes their integrated freelancer workflow and financials system will change the media industry. New startup Assignmint has an ambitious goal: To change freelance journalism as we know it.

By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's defenses against a major tsunami and the safety of its nuclear plants were thrown into further doubt after two official studies predicted much higher waves could hit and that Tokyo quake damage could be bigger than it was prepared for. The reports, carried in the media over the weekend, are likely to intensify the debate about whether to restart Japan's 54 nuclear reactors, all but one of which are shut amid public fears about nuclear safety sparked by the Fukushima disaster in March 2011.

Adrian Grenier doesn't mind if you call him Vince. But he'd also like you to call him a community builder who has some big ideas about turning media culture into a positive way to engage teens. Oh, and he thinks you should try a little of his retro-inspired beer

Are you relevant? (Are you sure?) Here are the top warning signs you may be alienating your customers. It seems the more market intelligence top executives possess, the less in touch they are with their target audiences

Do you have what it takes to start a business? A veteran entrepreneur suggests a surprising character for start-up life

A lot of CEOs tell me their B2B companies just don't need social media. Here's why they are dead wrong. I have been doing a lot of speaking engagements lately before CEOs of business-to-business (or "B2B") companies

Online communities don't have to replace face-to-face interactions with social media, says IBM's Worldwide Social Media Strategist Ryan Boyles.

If your beta product isn't ready for prime time, the last thing you need is attention from the media. As someone with a marketing background, I've always been overly zealous to make noise about what I'm working on even before the product is entirely ready for public consumption

Agency or freelancer? Big firm or small? And will this really work

In December, MIT Media Lab researchers caused a stir by releasing a slow-motion video of a burst of light traveling the length of a plastic bottle. But the experimental setup that enabled that video was designed for a much different application: a camera that can see around corners.