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Success, if not handled properly, can lead to the demise of a business. Sustain long-term growth by following these steps. A funny little thing happens on the road to success.

Starting today, the app from 1000memories lets users conveniently start digitizing the world's 4 trillion paper snapshots and slapping them on Facebook.

The latest tactic in the tech talent hunt: Get your techies to blog about how smart they are. On July 21, Filip Mares sparked a small uproar in the blogosphere with the following posting: "In order to query the post from memory, we bind a click event function to retrieve the contents for the < l i > id in question," he asserted.

Sometimes the Web services you rely on crash... or get taken down by the feds (sorry, Megaupload.com!).

Michelle Obama’s first day on Twitter was the tweet heard 'round the world, with more than 60,000 followers signing up to follow her the morning she launched.

Is 2012 the year for online poker start-ups? Some entrepreneurs are betting on it, even if they foresee a long road ahead. Stakes are high , and gaming entrepreneurs and casino moguls alike have their stacks on the table, waiting for the next draw.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Web Protests Of Privacy Acts Begin . As planned, Wikipedia , Google , and scores of other websites have gone dark to protest the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) in the U.S.

Google, Facebook, and others have made consumers particularly sensitive about their privacy online. That means you need to be sensitive about it too. Big tech companies are no strangers to privacy problems

Wikipedia, Reddit, and a host of other popular sites are gearing up for a total blackout on January 18 in protest of the controversial anti-piracy legislation. In the battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley, the tech world seems to be gaining ground. In a major protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 (PIPA), a number of high-profile sites are planning a total shutdown for January 18

As members of both the Senate and the House start falling back to a more defensible position by considering the removal of the DNS provision from SOPA and PIPA, many voices of opposition to the bills are claiming victory.

The secret to successful selling? Don't sell right away. If you’re in a position to “sell” at your company (and no matter what you do for your company, you should be), then you know it’s not always easy to get the ear of the prospect you’re trying to sell to.

When making the jump to social media marketing, small enterprises must avoid assuming that customers are ever truly engaged. There’s a turn of phrase that’s been rattling around my head recently—you know the one about being a “victim of your own success?” Sometimes I wonder whether that’s the case with social media evangelists. By any measure, we’ve helped drive ever larger numbers of businesses and independent professionals to start using social-based promotion, which is fine on its face, but how much value has been added to the lives of consumers

From coffee to crafts to paywalled blog posts, Memberly customers are building businesses based on predictability.
 Jesse Thorn produces a web series that teaches men how to dress like grown ups. But he's found a new way to make money off of his site while he's sleeping like a baby.

Amazon's erotica section isn't just rife with tales of lust, incest, violence, and straight-up kink. It's also a hotbed of masked merchants profiting from copyright infringement. And even with anti-piracy legislation looming, Amazon doesn't appear too eager to stop the forbidden author-on-author action

Last week, an Indian hacker crew successfully broke into a secured Indian military government network. The group, the Lords of Dharmaraja, posted documents that infer Apple, Nokia, and Research In Motion gave the Indian government backdoor access to their devices in exchange for mobile phone market rights.