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The web still hasn't become its own operating system but, man, parts of it are close. Take these surprisingly powerful and useful app-like websites, for example. Do you remember how web browsers worked in 1998?

DocStoc CEO Jason Nazar needed a new product idea that might help grow the business. He got it--in a week

Dell's chief commercial officer Steve Felice thinks that his company can leverage its way into the tablet market because it's wide open. Speaking to Reuters , Felice said that Dell tablets powered by Windows 8 would arrive later in 2012, and they'd offer something no one else has: Dell's "coveted brand." The optimism didn't end there.

Apple's CFO Peter Oppenheimer will take the stage this morning to talk about Apple's cash reserves and reveal what plans Apple has for the money. At last count the reserves were nearing $100 billion, and actually growing at a rate that defies belief despite the already impressive stash. During Steve Jobs' time as CEO there was no movement on the cash issue, despite many calls for some action over the years--even when the reserves numbered just in the several billions of dollars...but now Tim Cook is at the helm, and things may change

Are there any die-hard "CrackBerry" fans anymore? What RIM must do to win back the business crowd

Any of these mistakes could cost you time, money, and the security of your business. You'd like to think of yourself as tech-savvy: You upgraded to the latest Web browser, started using CRM software in your business, and even added a new mail server running Microsoft Exchange.

Ideas, both fanciful and potentially instructive for your business, flowed over the weekend in Austin. Here are 7 interesting bits we observed.

Universal translators are something of a holy grail in mobile tech trends--and Microsoft's just revealed its latest effort at its own TechFest show. It's real-time. And it uses your own voice and face

Customers buy brands, not products. If you can't articulate the reason for your company's existence, you're going to lose out.

You're no celebrity entrepreneur--but that doesn't mean you can't grab a little bit of the spotlight. Some people get lucky. They wind up on shows like "Shark Tank" and even if they lose, their half hour of fame is enough to launch them into the spotlight and off they go

Imagine a world where there are no downloads.

Why Microsoft is backing a technology incubator for teens, an idea that Daniel Brusilovsky came up with at 15 years old. Daniel Brusilovsky started his first business when he was 14.

I’m sitting in my rental car outside of eBay headquarters on a rainy day in San Francisco. I’m about to step into my second day delivering an Outthinker workshop to group of technology execs from various companies. Television news here centers on the rapidly reorganizing technology landscape: the Yelp IPO, Yahoo suing Facebook during its pre-IPO quiet period

Nine months ago, Microsoft announced an $8.5-billion bid to buy Skype , the provider of voice-over-Internet Protocol software and services. The move promised to add an important video chat feature to help handsets running the Windows Phone operating system better compete with FaceTime on the iPhone and Android's Google Talk feature

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. EU Privacy Regulator To Investigate Google . CNIL, a data protection agency from France will investigate Google's new privacy policy to check if the company's changes flout the laws the EU has in place to protect user privacy