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After I started my Web design and social media company, in 2008, I realized I needed a way to streamline communication with my clients, employees, and personal contacts. For about a year, I've been using a free Web-based service called Threadsy , which lets me access my e-mail, Twitter, and Facebook accounts in one place. You can access Threadsy through a Web browser, but I use a Mac app called Fluid to turn it into a desktop application.

Tablet computers are becoming more popular for Web browsing on the couch, watching Netflix movies in bed, or reading books on the train. But can a tablet replace a laptop for business travel? To find out, I grabbed an Apple iPad and the Lenovo IdeaPad U260, a new ultra-portable notebook with a 12.5-inch screen, and headed from Minneapolis to Los Angeles

Rashmi Sinha seemed destined for a career in academia. Born and raised in India, she earned her Ph.D. in psychology at Brown University and did her postdoctoral work in cognitive neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley

David Arrick thinks most cupcakes are pretty froufrou. His New York City company, Butch Bakery, makes manlier desserts. Its cupcakes, which sell for about $4.25 each, come in 12 flavors, including Home Run, a peanut butter cupcake topped with banana cream and crumbled bacon, and Beer Run, a cupcake made from chocolate, beer, and crushed pretzels

The Study: "Legitimacy Vacuum, Structural Imprinting, and the First-Mover Disadvantage," by Stanislav D.

Driving the XKR175 is as refreshing as reading a Jaguar review that has no feline references. Jaguars have never been known as hot rods; even the marque’s byword of the XK era—"Grace . .

Turning bedbugs' own pheromones against them. Bed bugs are the scourge of New York, and of other cities as well. And yet, for a number of reasons, the long-awaited War on Bedbugs has yet to arrive

A leading search marketing firm says Google's best shot at becoming competitive in social is acquiring Twitter. Yesterday, Google searches became more social with +1, which allows you to flag URLs you like for others in your social circle. It seems the next logical step in Google's gradual encroachment on the social space

When Ian Gaffney and Samantha Abrams were looking to expand their upstate New York organic, raw, and vegan snack food company, they turned to an unlikely source for business advice: Gaffney's brother's rock band. The band, the Makepeace Brothers, had just successfully paid for the recording of their latest album using IndieGoGo , the crowdfunding site that lets users raise money for projects—and that means anything from a rock album to an art projects to cancer research.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working on an advanced experimental fusion machine are readying experiments that will investigate a host of scientific puzzles, including how heat escapes as hot magnetized plasma, and what materials are best for handling intense plasma powers.

Microsoft has revealed some statistics to buff up the PR image of its Windows Phone 7 platform--and some of them are fairly impressive. But MS has been economical with the data it's willing to share. In a post on its Windows Team blog , Microsoft is setting out the "numbers that matter" after a year of Windows Phone 7's existence.

Looking for a way to angle into the burgeoning electric vehicle business? Forget cars--investing in the charging infrastructure is the way to go

Facebook just introduced a subtle tweak to its user experience: Personal profiles can now be quickly and efficiently converted to business Pages, turning your friends into fans. Facebook is realizing, it seems, that a good way to future profits is to court industry partners. With the launch of a new migration tool, Facebook is letting single users around the world create a more business-centric, limited form of Facebook entry that allows business to have thousands of "fans" rather than acting as an interactive friend resource

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today

GameSlam lets you bet one what's going to happen next during the ballgame you're watching. Opening day just got a lot more interesting.