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Words to avoid in the office, CEO sisters, David Sacks of Yammer on leadership, and more.

When it comes to workplace attire, we're no longer restricted to the all-business-all-the-time suits-and-ties of Mad Men-era office culture. Colorful, fun companies like Google have proved success isn't derived from stodgy work outfits but can be achieved even in T-shirts and V-necks

Nanotechnology makes the seemingly impossible true: Trapping the sun's heat for release later, whenever and wherever you need it. MIT's researchers have discovered a way to blend carbon nanotubes , current media darlings of the chemistry world, with an existing material used for storing heat energy

"We want consumers to have a great time," says SCVNGR founder Seth Priebatsch, "and we also want business to love it enough that they're willing to pay for it." SCVNGR is a company that takes fun very seriously. Upon entering their office complex in Cambridge, MA, you'll notice quickly that this is no ordinary workplace.

Color, the $41-million app designed to share photos with those in your immediate proximity, struck out its first time at bat. MyStream works much the same way, but lets you eavesdrop on friends and strangers' songs instead of pictures.

How far will the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office go?

British journalism made headlines this week for all the wrong reasons, namely hacking. Tabloid paper News Of The World, which broke into dozens of voicemail accounts of prominent or newsworthy public figures in pursuit of scurrilous dirt, most recently crossed the line again by hacking into--and even deleting--voicemail messages of a murder victim.

The July 4th weekend is just behind us and I spent a good part of last week thinking about summer and how my expectation for work-free vacations might or might not be about to disappear with the launch of FamiliesGo!. Back when I had a staff job at a major business magazine I had an editor who asked me to miss an evening flight that would start my annual vacation to do an eleventh-hour revise on a story. Now, he'd known about my trip for well over a month and I'd filed this story several weeks earlier

I Love Rewards and other businesses find ways to bring meaning to corporate award ceremonies. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honors the year's finest film. The PEN/Faulkner Foundation honors the year's best fiction

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Fourteen company builders talk about their successes, their failures, and the lessons they learned along the way. Two were fired from the companies they formed.

Dale Ball took his company public, lost control of it, then was shown the door. He talks about his lessons learned

The Secret Service recently spilled the beans on their anti-cybercrime investigations. Fake accounts on underground websites? Elaborate multinational credit card fraud investigations with Turkish law enforcement

...now what? What's behind Google's slow-launch approach, plus, what's irking the Twitterati about the search giant's social network (hint: everything). The first formal reviews of Google+, the social-network-news-feed-video-chat hybrid, are in

How Arianna Huffington, Larry Page, Richard Branson, and others, keep on top of it all.