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Now that we've sequenced human DNA, we move on to our six-legged friends, whose genes might yield important and lucrative discoveries in many fields. The Human Genome Project was a $3.8 billion undertaking that has so far yielded over $800 billion in economic output.

Whether you're interested in selling your business or buying one, odds are you'll want to engage a business broker to help you through the process. Not unlike what you see in the real estate sector, business brokers tend to be paid by sellers: something you need to keep in mind if you're a buyer.

Leading Net radio service Pandora has just priced its IPO, ready to lead a nascent industry into the next phase.

It's nice when good things happen to good companies. After a more than decade of struggling to turn its streaming music service into a viable business (for a good primer check out Stephanie Clifford's 2007 story ), Pandora is profitable and poised for a blockbuster IPO. Today, it announced that it is raising the price of the offering by roughly 50 percent : Online radio station Pandora increased the share price for its initial public offering today, bringing the company’s valuation to nearly $2 billion, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

One of the winners of a contest to translate Prius technology to the real world, this prototype helmet will protect your head--and call an ambulance for you if you take a spill. You're in a nasty bike accident during rush hour

At this week's Research@Intel event, Fast Company had the chance to see some of the tech giant's freshest research-stage projects--from cheap power for the developing world to simple plug-and-play home energy monitoring. When a computing giant like Intel decides to get into the energy management space, it's safe to assume that big things are coming. We've seen hints of it before--Intel announced in 2009 that it was working on energy management systems for buildings--and at this week's Research@Intel event, Fast Company had the chance to see some of the company's freshest research-stage projects that could soon be changing the way the world uses and generates electricity.

There's a certain agony associated with searching for travel, some of which a flight-aggregation engine like Kayak alleviates.

The humble webcam has enabled many things: racy adventures on Chatroulette ; Skype chats with Grandma; remote learning. With this week's launch of YouEye , the hope is that the webcam will become a powerful--and inexpensive--new tool in user-experience testing for companies looking to quickly evaluate the effectiveness of their websites. YouEye pays people recruited from the client’s site, outsourced panels, or YouEye’s panel an average of $7 each to evaluate things like online advertising and attention spans by tracking their eyeball movements via their own webcams.

The discount-of-the-day site filed its papers today to become a publicly traded company. It's official.

7 days for the price of 5, 10 days for the price of 7, 14 days for the price of 10, 21 days for the price of 14 during May to October.

1. Google offers, the business model backbone behind Google Wallet NFC credit cards, kicks off tomorrow

Climate change will cause the price of staple foods like corn, rice, and wheat to more than double over the next 20 years.

Finding the balance between speed and quality in customer service For some businesses, great customer service simply means fast with a smile. For others—think luxury hotels, hair salons, and doctors' offices—it's all about time-consuming, personalized attention

Why businesses shouldn't treat technology as a young person's game Ninety percent of technology marketing targets 10 percent of the population: the young, the cool, the perceived digerati. A few niche companies address the senior market with products so simplified your cat could use them.

Kiyoshi Murota shot a 5-under 67 on Friday to take a four-stroke lead in the Senior PGA Championship over a glittering scoreboard that includes Nick Price, Hale Irwin and Tom Watson.