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The path of entrepreneurship isnt smooth. Here are five tips to survive the start-up roller coaster.

For many big nontech companies, the best way to innovate quickly is to fund startups that pioneer their future business.

A look at Baratunde Thurston, the Director of Digital at The Onion, a Harvard philosophy major turned consultant turned standup comedian and author of How to Be Black. Flux to the core.

How can you snag the best tech talent? Chris Dixon says you need to first get inside their heads.

How can you snag the best tech talent? Chris Dixon says you need to first get inside their heads

How can you snag the best tech talent?

Hackers stole credit card data from 200 businesses over three years and racked up $3 million in bogus charges. Don't think it can't happen to you.

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How FamiliesGo! founder Eileen Gunn will break away from day-to-day tasks to map out a long-term strategy. Planning and structure has been on my mind lately. As a freelance writer I’m good at imposing both of these things on my work

You've probably seen QR tags thousands of times, from advertisements in the subway to coupon flyer in the mail to products in the supermarket. They look like stamp-size bar codes, a grid of small black-and-white rectangles and squares, usually with bigger black squares in the corners.

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In addition to knowing your exact route and even how many calories you've burned, you can now find out the environmental impact of every public transit trip you take--and how much better it is than if you had taken a car. City living just got a little more smug

No more blaming being late on the subway. An online mapping tool lets you see exactly how far you can get on public transportation in a given amount of time. You have a couple hours to kill in a new city, but don't have the slightest clue how long it will take you on public transportation to get to all the good tourist destinations.

I recently toured the New York City Second Avenue Subway construction site with Monica Bradley, Scientific American 's photo editor, and photographers Jeremy Floto and Cassandra Warner. [More]

Google will keep you from sprinting to the bus every morning by telling you when it's actually coming, not just when it's supposed to come. Veteran public transit users know that scheduled departure times rarely match up to actual departures.