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Most people think about apps running on their smartphones, but we're seeing more and more web services launching app "stores" that allow you to beef up your account. LinkedIn's list of apps is relatively small compared to other popular marketplaces, but what the site lacks in quantity it makes up in quality

For American makers on the hunt, the landscape of funding is lean and treacherous. Here are some helpful ideas to take you to the next level.

Be wary of unanimous decisions and bold when you face them. Neuroscience and sociology, and a recent meeting I attended, underscore this point. I sat in a board meeting recently as we debated a new strategic initiative.

This time of year, goal-setting becomes a bit of a cliche.

Over the past six months, Issa's launched an interactive subcommittee livestream, produced a new form of online polling, and sponsored a bill to make government spending trackable. Engineer and congressional Republican firebrand Darrell Issa is leveraging his supporters' collective outrage against a contentious anti-piracy bill , SOPA, to showcase his new experimental crowdsourcing legislative platform.

Evidence points to information from trusted sources getting a better hold on our brains than the noise from everything else. So it's no surprise that companies want to capitalize on those feelings.

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Whenever I ask managers and business leaders about their most pressing problems at work, I’ve been a bit surprised to hear from so many who say they are struggling with a “bad boss” or a hopelessly toxic work environment. A bad boss is a big problem, and not easily fixed

The business plan is the easy part. Managing and leading a team? That's where the learning curve gets very steep.

From a bed-and-breakfast to a consulting practice: See which businesses people start most often after they quit the rat race. Some people are not looking forward to retirement—they are not ready to settle into a golf routine and move to Florida just yet.

The future of search is social. Google and Microsoft have tied their rival engines to social, mining data from various networks (Twitter, Facebook) to deliver personalized results based on what your friends and followers recommend, rather than some lifeless algorithm.

The next time you have a chance, pull a client aside and ask specific questions related to how you're doing. As someone who markets entertainment experiences--meaning I get to watch audiences react in real time--I find the power of human expression and poignant feedback is often far more meaningful than spreadsheet data. That's why I say that the next time you have the chance (and it should be as soon as today), you should pull a client aside and ask specific questions related to how you're doing.

DURBAN, South Africa When roughly 25,000 people descend on a city to talk climate change, you can expect at least two things: mountains of waste and copious emissions of the greenhouse gases that they’ve come to talk about so seriously. To offset the hundreds of thousands of tons of these lightweight gases emitted in the pursuit of a global climate treaty, recent such conferences have taken compensatory measures, such as subsidizing retrofits of Bangladeshi brick factories , so that ambassadorial emissions are offset by a reduction in pollution from kilns

New legislation could expand crowdfunding options through websites such as Kickstarter and IndieGoGo.

Business owners: For better sales efforts, do each of these 30-minute tasks just once a week--but do them every week. Feeling overwhelmed