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What's the future of solar energy? Fast Company gets Crystal Ballin' with Lynn Jurich, cofounder of SunRun, which is flourishing in a season that has seen a few high-profile bankruptcies in solar energy. For the latest installment in our futurist series of interviews, Crystal Ballin' , we talk to Lynn Jurich, the 32-year-old cofounder of SunRun , which specializes in installing and operating solar panels on residential rooftops.

It's here, Apple's iPhone 5, or rather the iPhone 4S--ending a ton of speculation about its name, and spurring hundreds of "what, no iPhone 5?" comments from webizens who'd been hoping for that exciting-sounding re-design to surface. The thing is, though, the iPhone for 2011 is very similar in external design to the iPhone for 2010, but its real selling power is what's inside

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If Amazon's new Kindle Fire doesn't make it; it won't be from lack of hype in the press. Actually, I can give you a list of reasons why the Fire leaves me cool. First however, let's go over the launch details.

When you dont need a full-time employee to do the task at hand, hire an e-lancer from one of these new companies. Call it the joblet recovery. With unemployment at 9 percent and 2012 looking bleak, many job seekers find themselves adrift in a modern version of the preindustrial piecework economy

This HR start-up makes it easy to screen job candidates. Can it raise $1.25 million? FOUNDER: Danielle Weinblatt LOCATION: Cambridge, Massachusetts EMPLOYEES: Five full time; three part time FOUNDED: January 2011 2011 PROJECTED REVENUE: $100,000 NUMBER OF USERS: 100 (including Cactus Restaurants, Harvard Business School, and Deloitte) VIDEOS RECORDED: 160 COST: $45 for one posting; $70—$300 for up to six postings a month; about $25,000 for an enterprise package PREVIOUS FUNDING: $200,000 in angel funding FUNDING SOUGHT: $1.25 million The Pitch: "Screening job candidates is a huge waste of time.

“You shouldn’t wait for change—you should pioneer it,” said Paul Block, CEO of Merisant, the company that makes the sugar substitute Equal, and his remark pretty well summed up the theme of last Thursday’s conference session, “Growth and Innovation: Leveraging the Momentum.” A standing-room-only audience attended the panel discussion, in which Block was joined by serial entrepreneur Howard Tullman, CEO of Tribeca Flashpoint Digital Media Arts Academy, and Lisa Price, CEO of Carol’s Daughter, a cosmetics company she launched 18 years ago while working as an assistant writer on “The Cosby Show.” Perhaps the best illustration of Block’s precept came from Price. Four years ago, she said, she and her management team had detected early signs of a major change in the tastes and preferences of their customer base, principally African-American women

Inc. has covered the Daily Deal and Local Deal space quite extensively over the last year or so. In fact my colleague Eric Markowitz has reported on the death of daily deals (and their resurrection ) in the last few weeks.

In remote areas where clean water is scarce, Sarvajal's water-dispensing ATMs provide a cheap solution.

How biofuels and speculation are driving food prices to scary new heights. Why have global food prices spiked not once, but twice in the last three years, raising the specter of famine and triggering worldwide food riots-- including the Arab Spring? Many explanations have been floated, including climate change-related droughts in Australia, volatile oil prices, “food security” export restrictions, and last but not least, feeding China’s strategic pork reserve

Netflix must feel like captain Billy Tyne in the The Perfect Storm: Just went it's hit by one massive wave, another one soon drowns the company from any possible respite.

Yes, the game-changing device still accounts for about 7 percent of quarterly revenues. But Apple's money could be better spent elsewhere. Here's why and where

Charter the quality and comfortable INEVITABLE this Thanksgiving holiday, and enjoy 8 nights for the price of 7.

A few short months ago, Netflix made the bold decision to increase the price for its DVD-by-mail and streaming subscription plan by 60% . The announcement inevitably inspired universal vitriol among customers, but Netflix stuck to its guns, saying in a recent earnings call that the negative reaction hadn't been as bad as the company anticipated. Now, however, only a short while since the price plans went into effect, Netflix is singing a much different tune: Mea culpa! Last week the company adjusted its guidance because of worse-than-expected subscriber declines (estimating a loss of 800,000 DVD-by-mail customers and 200,000 streaming customers); its stock price took a huge tumble of 19% (down 44% overall since the price plans were announced); and on Sunday night, CEO Reed Hastings took to Netflix's blog to apologize and offer a slew of (dramatic) solutions.

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