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LinkedIn's new "Volunteer Experience and Causes" feature, launching today, encourages users to tout their selfless deeds to land better jobs.

The iPad starts at $499. While most every device maker has mimicked Apple's price point, none have been able to mimic Apple's sales. At last count, Apple had sold 28.7 million iPads, making the iPad the clear industry leader.

Birchbox co-founders Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp share how they manage scaling their quickly growing beauty discovery service.

Birchbox co-founders Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp share how they manage scaling their quickly growing beauty discovery service.

Is there ever a good time or right way to break bad news?

Here comes the next generation of innovators revolutionizing batteries. Brian Parsonnet led the development of the Ice Bear, a device that is attached to commercial air conditioners and uses ice to store energy, making cooling more efficient and easing the burden on the electric grid

If we are to improve the quality of life in our cities--27 of which are expected to have more than 10 million people by 2020--we will have to find a better way to build them. MIT's new software will help.

What you need to know to increase the value of your business for a financial buyer Have you ever wondered what a business like yours would sell for? It's a fair question, but focusing on your valuation is a little bit like a hypertensive person focusing on his or her blood pressure report

A Belgian company is working on removing the raw materials from dumps, making both energy and building materials out of them, and then redeveloping the land. About 50 miles east of Brussels, next to an old coal mine, lies a festering stinkhole that few people ever visit, and most people would rather forget about. Dating from the 1960s, the Remo Milieubeheer landfill at Houthalen-Hechteren is a typical dump full of industrial waste and household garbage--16.5 million tons of it in all

From LEGOs to Japanese noodles, companies are letting users control their brand--and grow it.

The oil and gas business never changes! You get oil out of the ground, turn it into gas and put it in your car. Nothing ever changes, right?

If you going to ask for a handout, do so carefully and deliberately. You don't want to just jump into a relationship with an investor.

Groupon Delaying IPO . The high-profile initial public offering of Groupon is now thought to be delayed because of highly unfavorable market conditions.

To resupply Arctic mines and oil rigs, roads are expensive (if not simply out of the question).