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When brands ask consumers to snap a product photo and text or email it in, Pongr recognizes the image and replies. Is that really better than QR codes? We asked its president

Learn from these entrepreneurs that ditched the office to cut overhead expenses, be closer to family, and enjoy, as one entrepreneur put it, the "10-step commute." Thinking of starting up —but don’t want the daily trek to an office? Home-based businesses, or virtual businesses, provide plenty of advantages, especially if you’re looking to bootstrap your operation. Here’s a look at 11 entrepreneurs that ditched the office to cut overhead expenses, be closer to family, and enjoy, as one entrepreneur put it, the “10-step commute.” Green and Profitable Shel Horowitz Shel Horowitz started his first home-based business in 1981 on the kitchen table of a rental apartment.

To make up for its tardiness to the online music store game, Google Music has enlisted bona fide music lovers to help curate its store. It's the Google version of "High Fidelity," with Tim Quirk as Rob Gordon.

For some Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, simply coming up with lines of well-written code can turn a startup into a smashing success. But Skybox Imaging founder Dan Berkenstock is aiming much (much) higher.

Good salespeople focus on the particular feature the customer cares about.

In his new book, "Reinventing Fire," Lovins creates a system for powering a 21st century civilization without using 20th century methods. Amory Lovins, the chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute and the author of influential books like Winning the Oil Endgame and Natural Capitalism, is back with a new book--and this time, he's claiming that the U.S.

If you didn't know what Fair Trade was five years ago, you certainly do now. As the label becomes ubiquitous, CEO Paul Rice is taking the standard into new industries and to new heights.

The same architect designed both innovative spaces. Will AOL's cool office stand the test of time, or do you "like" Facebook's better?

Inside the movement to make the coder community more female friendly.

Instead of focusing on how much investment they get, startups should make something that solves problems. If they do, they'll get loyal customers, and that's more important than investors

EdSurge--a weekly handbook for the "edsurgents" of the digital education revolution--is sharing notable news with Fast Company every week.

At the Designer Fund’s first Designer Fair, IDEO’s Elle Luna explains how brands are increasingly seeking to gain customers and build loyalty by showing their human side. Want to build your brand? Traditionally that’s meant a lot of chest thumping

A look at the key milestones--and quotes--that shaped this true visionary's career 1955: Steve Jobs was born and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, a machinist and an accountant, in Mountain View, CA. 1974: After one semester at Reed College, Jobs, at age 19, drops out and takes a job at Atari, but leaves shortly later to travel India

These elements are the building blocks of a modern society, and China has all of them. Until now

Several Scientific American staffers recently flew out to Mountain View, Calif.