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Don't think it's possible? Try these 10 tools to give yourself a productivity boost. I don't know about you, but I can't function without having a lot on my plate.

Mark Coker of Smashwords became the leader of indie e-book writers--including some with dirty minds--in a fight against censorship and PayPal. He also has strong feelings about the DOJ's e-book pricing lawsuit.

We kick off our Leadership Hall of Fame , a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Practically Radical , written by Fast Company magazine cofounder William C. Taylor .

General Mills is moving its open innovation efforts to the digital world. With G-WIN Digital, the food company is looking for your gaming and mobile ideas

Every TV manufacturer agrees, the remote control will change more in the next three years than it has the previous six decades. But how will it actually change? Sony, Samsung, LG, and Vizio tell us

When we look back at 2011, many will remember it as the year of the Occupy Movement, as the representation for the 99% found their voice, aiming to bring about change by influencing the controls of economic wealth and political power. Meanwhile, earlier in the year, Professor Michael E

The world could burn nearly 8,000 million metric tons of coal by 2035 -- most of it in China -- unless countries radically change their energy policies, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The IEA's World Energy Outlook released this week found that China almost singlehandedly fueled the rise in coal use throughout the first decade of the 21st century

Russell Simmons--rap impresario and founder of Def Jams Records, Phat Farm and author of "Do You" has a life and career outlook that's made him one of the most successful entertainment moguls in history. His family is famous, too, with reality TV shows covering both Russell's family and his brother's family's (The Reverend Run) every move

Several investors, including some notable celebrities, are banking on the spam-free search engine to compete against Bing, Yahoo, and Google. Upstart search engine Blekko has closed a $30 million funding round in its quest to be the spam-free Google. Yandex, the most popular search engine in Russia, has invested $15 million and promised to share its servers and other technology

Dawn Halfaker, founder of Halfaker and Associates, took the stage at the Inc. 500|5000 Joining Forces Military Entrepreneurs Mentoring Fair at the Reagan Center in Washington, D.C

Ben Chestnut, CEO of MailChimp, described in the last post how the freemium model has dramatically increased business for his company. Below, Ben describes his pricing model and the types of customers his company prefers. Curt-I reviewed your company’s pricing structure and think it’s really smart how you have tailored your pricing for each buyer persona, such as the customer with high volatility in the number of emails he’s going to send or the customer with a huge volume of subscribers

From IT services to industrial supply, these are the top small businesses run by CEOs of South Asian heritage. I.T. Source Los Angeles No

From the outlook of a planet that resides next to a quiet, relatively predictable star, the circumstances that lead to dramatic stellar explosions elsewhere in the universe can sound somewhat improbable. Some such blasts, known as type Ia supernovae, occur when a small, dense star known as a white dwarf--roughly the diameter of Earth, but hundreds of thousands of times more massive--grows too large by siphoning material off a neighboring star, igniting a thermonuclear explosion.

It may not be as dramatic as Twitter or as ubiquitous as Facebook, but LinkedIn attracts dedicated users who are serious about business. Here's how to connect with them using the fast-growing service's most powerful new tools.

The environment in which a business must grow is an unpredictable terrain. Rises and dips in markets, sudden technological breakthroughs, and a finicky consumer base can all render a company's original business model obsolete.