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Occupy Wall Street websites love adding Google, Facebook, and Twitter buttons--which could give law enforcement a handy back door to track users' actions--and identities. Big Data is everywhere. Occupy Wall Street protesters, however, are dealing with a special challenge: Online marketers and analytics firms tracing the minutiae of their lives--including their email contacts and physical location--and possibly passing the information on to law enforcement.

How can you get your employees whipped into a state of maximized productivity? Follow these 4 tips. In Start-up Land, the phrase, "it's not my job" is like a four-letter word.

Everyone has too much to do in too short a space of time, says Jeff Diana, chief people officer at SuccessFactors.

The Internet gives angry customers a megaphone; even one angry one can do a lot of damage. Here's how to defend your company and defuse a crisis.

Does your company need just a bit more capital to scale and make it to profitability? Or is it just a money pit? How to tell

Even if you're not the boss, you should be acting like one. Here's how to take charge of your daily life

Becoming a more charismatic leader can help your company. It can also trip it up. Very few leadership attributes have as dangerous a downside as charisma.

If you don't understand the answers to these critical questions, your sales operation may be in jeopardy.

Everyone makes mistakes, says Citrix Systems VP of product design Catherine Courage, but trying to displace blame only hurts your credibility. Instead consider these tactics. [twistage ef19811b7e550] For more bite-sized bits of wisdom on leadership and strategies for success, explore our ongoing video series at

News updates all day from your Fast Company editors. Late yesterday Apple revealed its last quarterly sales , and they were again impressive enough to beat Wall Street's expectations .

Forget what the competition is planning: Apple does not envision the iPad and MacBook Air converging at any point in the near future. Today, the company released its second-quarter financial results ($39.2 billion in revenue, $11.6 billion in net revenue), and despite selling 11.8 million iPads, Cook took time during an earnings call to discuss the potential threat of the PC and tablet spaces converging. Many expect Microsoft's latest offering, Windows 8, to unite these two sides of the spectrum, making the tablet not a post-PC device, but just a PC in a different form

Working with the right investors, vendors, and employees can mean the difference between success and failure for your business.

Five ways I was recently amazed by undergrads competing in a business plan competition at Texas Christian University. As I get older, I love to talk about how times have changed

The pilot episode of a new television series can send it rocketing toward ratings success, renewal, and eventual syndication, or plummeting toward cancellation. But in the world of Internet TV, says Netflix , "don't expect overnight results." That's the message the company sent yesterday while announcing its quarterly financial results. On Monday, the company released its first-quarter financial earnings, and beyond the immediate results (26 million global streaming users, $870 million in revenue, a $0.08 loss per share), Netflix spent time qualifying the benefits of its original programming efforts

In most cities, academic researchers have to drive across town, or even through other cities, to reach an industry incubator. In Aurora, they just walk across the street. UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights All around the country, Americans are dreaming big