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People who can't manage their own lives don't make good entrepreneurs. Small businesses require multi-tasking, work prioritization, and decision-making, with no entourage of assistants and specialists

American Express is joining the ranks of old-school credit card companies that have realized they need to embrace the future of digital transactions. Its new Serve platform enables novel digital payments that threaten PayPal and pave the way for NFC

Several academic institutions are teaming up in an effort organized by the U.S.

There are some 700 million people in Africa without access to electricity. As the continent modernizes, those people will need power.

Q&A websites are plagued with problems that few have yet to solve. Social Media Q&A is all the rage: Facebook just upgraded its questions feature , TED launched a website for its own community, Quora has culled a suprising response from experts, and firebrand Congressman Anthony Weiner held a marathon Twitter session on the anniversary of the new healthcare law

Claustrophobics (and everyone else who hates lying in coffin-like spaces), take note: GE just introduced an MRI machine for arm and leg injuries that requires patients to stick only the affected limb into a doughnut-shaped scanner--no full-body scanning required. The device, dubbed the Optima MR430s , offers imaging of the elbow, wrist, hand, knee, ankle, and foot, all while allowing patients to recline in padded, adjustable chairs

Despite its mysterious PR aura, Apple is generally pretty reliable when it comes to releasing new hardware at a particular time. But now there are rumors that its hardware release dates may be pushed back later than usual this year.

Welcome to Fast Feed, the Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--bite-sized and updated all day. 'Nano-bricks' lock in food flavor longer : A new transparent packaging technology, made from the same particles used to construct clay bricks, could keep food fresh longer, maybe for years.

"Green" computer code would be increase energy efficiency in the machines running such software. A computer scientist from Binghamton University has recently scored about a half million in funding--$450,000 from the National Science Foundation, and $50,000 from Google--that will help support his interested in "green" software development.

Apple won against Nokia, but potentially could lose--big--against Kodak. Apple's legal team had a roller coaster of a weekend, winning against

Preparing for international travel is unlike planning a business trip within one's own country.

In 1970, Dov Frohman was a young electrical engineer working for a relatively unknown 100-person company called Intel. While troubleshooting a problem with an Intel product one day, Frohman stumbled upon a radically new way to record memory on a semiconductor.

An English prof gains a cult following on campus through "Jeffbook," his 3,221-entry (and counting) experiment in literary criticism, conducted exclusively on Facebook. His StairMaster mastery and Red Bull-slamming ability may also have helped

Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader is in the headlines for a number of reasons at the moment, and it's prompting a big question: With no competing device from Amazon , can the Nook steal the Kindle's throne? The original Nook was the first e-reader to challenge the Amazon Kindle with a cleverer Android-powered device that one-upped the Kindle with a second color screen.

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