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#OpMegaupload , a reaction by the hacktivists group Anonymous to a strict takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload (and the arrest of employees) on piracy charges, has been pretty successful in disabling the websites of the Department of Justice, the MPAA, the RIAA and others. Partly carried out via Twitter messages, this new effort by Anonymous is only superficially similar to previous distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that Anonymous has carried out to punish its targets

HP, Best Buy, and JetBlue reveal how they use Twitter's enhanced profile pages to make every tweet sing. It’s still officially in velvet-rope mode, but Twitter’s enhanced profile pages are heavily in play for those brands among the first to sign up. So how are the early reviews?

Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, on how she came up with the idea for footless pantyhose.

Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, explains the steps she took to land her girdles on Oprah and, ultimately, built the Spanx brand. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/sara-blakely/how-sara-blakely-got-spanx-on-oprah.html Advertisement: Are your best customers still out there?

Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, talks about how she picked her team members, handled public relations, and avoided paying for advertising. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/sara-blakely/how-sara-blakely-grew-spanx.html Advertisement: Are your best customers still out there?

The founder of Spanx talks about how she avoided discouragement before she launched by keeping her idea to herself, and developing it for a year, before she mentioned it to friends or family. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/sara-blakely/how-sara-blakely-differentiated-her-business-idea-for-spanx.html Advertisement: Are your best customers still out there?

How Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, took $5,000 and an idea for footless pantyhose, and turned it into a multi-million dollar women's undergarment business. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/sara-blakely/the-spanx-story-how-sara-blakely-turned-footless-pantyhose-into-a-business.html Advertisement: Are your best customers still out there?

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Google Q4 Earnings Not Google-y Enough . There were several handsome numbers in

Last year saw the explosion of deals companies trying to duplicate the success of first-mover Groupon.

Millions of retailers have filed an antitrust suit against big bank credit card companies. The goal? Cutting interchange fees and ending a crushing monopoly

A new report shows that venture capitalists invested much more in 2011 than in 2010 -- but that the amount of money going into seed-stage deals plummeted.

Kiva's director of social performance illuminates how the nonprofit has confronted naysayers as it expands its microlending to the U.S.

LiveJournal, one of the web's most popular early blogging sites, is launching a comeback in the United States. Their plans for 2012 include massive changes for users

Two consumer electronics retailers: One gets it, the other doesn't even come close. One of the biggest mistakes Web designers make is cram too much information on a homepage