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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

Airlines are rushing to adapt to rising fuel costs, but most efficiency gains have already been made. If gas prices continue to rise, it may require a full rethinking of how we fly

While the tech world focuses on the strategy behind Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, we take a look at what the move means for the way we think about our smartphones, and the way they work. Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility

It may seem like I've been harping on service lately, since my last post was about tipping inattentive waitstaff .

Today, many companies offer their employees the option to work from home, even if they live relatively close to the office.

He is the CEO of Appirio, which helps companies adopt and navigate cloud-based services and solutions.

Early in August, Seattle’s Space Needle and Space Adventures launched a scheme that promised to let one lucky earthling cozy up with the stars, offering a trip to space as the prize in a contest open to the public.

Ben Chestnut is the CEO of MailChimp , a successful company that helps its customers design exceptional email campaigns. MailChimp has found great success by going freemium. Read on to learn how MailChimp funds creativity to help developers create interesting integrations with their product.

Find out what happens when a journalist crowdsources a piece about a crowdsource company to the people who work there. From DARPA soliciting the masses to design aspects of next generation combat vehicles , to

From The Art of War to Team of Rivals, the 12 management books you should read now (if you haven't already) The against-all-odds survival tale of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his 27-member crew is one of the most timeless leadership allegories out there.

GOOD, publishers of the magazine by the same name and the social action platform is acquiring Jumo, the cause-oriented social network created by Facebook and team Barack Obama veteran Chris Hughes. Jumo , the social network created by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes , and designed to help people find good causes and take meaningful action, has been acquired by GOOD , the media platform for "people who want to live well and do good." The amount or terms were not disclosed.

Last month, I had the chance to speak to a room full of entrepreneurs and angel investors at the Bethesda Green Business Incubator about the dos and don’ts of raising money from “angel investors.” Here are a few highlights from my remarks. Many service-oriented businesses can be started with minimal start-up capital

From Roman aqueducts to Chinese rail, enormous infrastructure has the potential to transform a society. To fix these economic doldrums, the government should partner with the private sector to solve society's problems

We continue our examination of the business book What Got You Here, Won't Get You There with an interview of author Marshall Goldsmith .

The Lone Star State may win the honor simply because it controls the ocean farther from the coast than most states, and the state has virtually no regulations when it comes to building. Cape Wind--the first offshore wind farm in the U.S. to receive the go-ahead for construction--has been mired in Kennedy-centered political problems for a decade