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How Path Is Becoming A "Smart Journal"

Path steps away from the "photo-sharing" category and firmly joins the emerging rank of apps--from Facebook to Erly--that are devising ways to create digital scrapbooks of our lives. When Path launched a little over a year ago, many people were puzzled: Why would an app that was about sharing photos let you only share with 50 people

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The 3 Best Cheap Marketing Moves Of All Time

Is it possible to brand an entire country for less than $200,000? Or, for less than $2,000, can you brand a person so successfully that they create headlines worldwide? Here are three cases of successful, yet cheap marketing stunts

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What’s Your Exit Strategy?

Four-time entrepreneur Joe Apprendi talks about exiting three companies and how his latest--Collective, a New York online advertising firm--could be his home run, an IPO. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/video/201111/how-i-did-it-joe-apprendi-collective-whats-your-exit-strategy.html

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The NBA’s All-Too-Familiar Problem

Professional basketball is run by smart businesspeople. So why do they think they're exempt from the law of supply and demand? The NBA lockout came about because the league won’t admit that it has the same problem as football, hockey and baseball: Too many teams for the customer base to support

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Yelp Goes Live in Australia

Co-founder Jeremy Stoppelman hopes that the review site will go viral Down Under without a marketing campaign. As online review service Yelp prepares for its initial public offering, the company quietly has gone live in Australia today.

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Microsoft’s Windows Tablets Of Next Year…Or Never

Yesterday it emerged that Microsoft's Windows 8 tablets, running on ARM chips (less power consuming than Intel's offerings), are finally due in mid-2013. It's exciting news for Windows fans, and probably something that enterprise IT professionals will make a mental note to be pre-prepared for

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E-Readers Don’t Have Anything On These Books

E-readers work dandy for straight stories, but some books demand the traditional treatment: lush photos, glossy pages, and a heft that commands considered travel. God bless the flip-worthy, full-color coffee-table book. Whether you're shopping for a foodie, design geek, or facial-hair devotee, we've picked a few of our recent favorites.

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7 Tips to Having a Dreaded Conversation

Whether it's firing someone or telling an employee they have bad BO, Donna Flagg's cheat sheet will help you through it. Have you ever struggled over how to fire an employee?

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Do u h8 h8? DoSomething.org Wants Teens To Text For Social Good :)

Through a new membership model, Do Something is counting on text messages to create a movement of 5 million teenage activists by 2015. Can they get Generation Text to care about poverty, hunger, homelessness, and disease

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