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Anatomy of a winner takes us through the key decisions that took a piece of work from good to great--and won the campaign for NTT DoCoMo Touch Wood SH-08C a Golden Lion at Cannes.

Airfarewatchdog is one of the best websites to filter through the madness and get the best deals on your next business trip. Booking air travel on the Internet used to be a simplified process. You went to Travelocity, Expedia, or relied on your internal business travel coordinators to set it all up.

It might not seem like scraping the top of a cold stick of butter with a knife could be a scientific test, but engineers at MIT say the process is very similar to the "scratch test," which is perhaps the oldest known way to assess a material's hardness and strength — or, in scientific language, its resistance to deformation.

Start-ups are always looking to increase revenue or save costs. When Sean Harper was running his e-commerce business, he started looking at costs, and zeroed in on how much he was paying his credit card processor

Getting two fluids to mix in small or confined spaces is a big problem in many industries where, for instance, the introduction of one fluid can help extract another — like water pumped underground can release oil trapped in porous rock — or where the mixing of liquids is the essential point of the process. A key example of the latter is microfluidics technology, which allows for the controlled manipulation of fluids in miniscule channels often only a few hundred nanometers wide.

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.

We continue our examination of the business book First, Break All the Rules with an interview of author Marcus Buckingham. Why did he write the book, and why are managers more important than leaders?

An inside look at X Prize's all-star brainstorming session. The X Prize Foundation has grabbed A-list investors and CNN headlines for their industry-creating multi-million dollar innovation competitions, from commercial space travel to oil-spill cleanup .

University of California-Irvine researcher Zhihong Lin is using the Jaguar supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to study fusion reactions, which produce helium from hydrogen and release energy in the process, in hopes of igniting ITER, an experimental fusion reactor being built in southern France.

By now we're grudgingly accustomed to those Captcha code boxes popping up online to verify we're humans and not bots.

Amateur chef and comedian Nadia Giosia broke into the competitive world of celebrity cooking with the power of her online community. Nadia Giosia, the saucy Italian comedian behind Cooking Channel's hit show, Bitchin' Kitchen , broke into the elite world of television chefs through the grassroots enthusiasm of her fierce online fans.

Here's a frustrating dilemma: having 500, a thousand plus Facebook friends and the prospect of zero fans on your new Facebook business page. If only you could migrate those folks right over and have an instant fan base

At the photo shoot for our April feature , the director of Pom Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold talks about the process of scavenging for cash in exchange for blatant product placement in his film ... about product placement.

An artificial "leaf" that collects energy in much the same way as a natural one could provide a day's worth of power for homes without access to an electricity grid. The leaf, a silicon-based square the size of a playing card, closely mimics the way plants use the process of photosynthesis to create energy. The device is dropped into a bucket of water, or even a muddy puddle, and placed in direct sunlight

As the ongoing nuclear saga in Japan plays out, a spotlight is being thrown on the reactor technology at the heart of it.