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Apple is all over the tech news right now for a dozen reasons. What are the burning questions and educated guesses at answers? Read on! Will the iPad push Apple to being the top portable computer maker?

Biofuels are taking off, but if they keep being made from corn, the world will go hungry. The oceans, full of fast-growing kelp, are the next frontier of plant-based fuel.

The July 4th weekend is just behind us and I spent a good part of last week thinking about summer and how my expectation for work-free vacations might or might not be about to disappear with the launch of FamiliesGo!. Back when I had a staff job at a major business magazine I had an editor who asked me to miss an evening flight that would start my annual vacation to do an eleventh-hour revise on a story. Now, he'd known about my trip for well over a month and I'd filed this story several weeks earlier

Toyota is charging ahead with three new plug-in EVs for 2012. Other automakers are being more cautious, but remember: Toyota got the Prius to sell when no one was excited about hybrids

Despite smokers' protests, it turns out cigarettes might not be the weight-loss solution people think they are. If you're willing to put aside the cancer and emphysema and be a smoker, your last excuse might have just gone up in smoke

A rare randomized study on Facebook by MIT shows how different marketing strategies perform. Brands can increase the number of people who install their Facebook apps by 400% through a combination of private and newsfeed messaging, according to a new MIT study.

Netflix will expand its streaming service to 43 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, the company announced Monday, its largest international expansion so far. On word of the news, Netflix's share price shot up to $283, hitting a 52-week high. The move is yet another part of Netflix's plan to bring its online subscription service beyond the U.S

Facebook Likes and comments are great, but they won't save your brand. Researcher Dan Zarella (an expert in social media analysis ) set out to prove they would at least help. He found the opposite results.

While you won't have any trouble finding a way to learn Spanish, French, or German in the United States, brushing up on your Lakota or Navajo isn't so easy.

The AARP is known for the following: retirement benefits, travel discounts, and commercials of old people smiling, frowning, or falling down. But last month, the nonprofit organization for those 50 and older launched a new service that takes advantage of a massive untapped market in the digital music industry: baby boomers

The trial of the 25-year-old just cleared of murder charges was this generation's OJ drama. Only this time, the regular market of questionably tasteless T-shirts and tchotchkes was flooded with apps, tweets, streams, and SMS alert services

I recently ran into an entrepreneur on whose board I sat during my venture capital years. We awkwardly shook hands and then quickly slipped into a conversation that seemed to pick back up on the last one we had years ago. Back when I was the VC and he was the entrepreneur, we had been on opposite sides of a tense situation.

"Creativity is not some exotic, optional extra," says the author of "Out of Minds: Learning to be Creative." "It’s a strategic issue." Sir Ken Robinson is among the world’s elite thinkers when it comes to creativity and innovation. The author of Out of Minds: Learning to be Creative , a 10th anniversary edition of which was published in March, and The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything , Robinson has dedicated much of his professional life to helping governments, educational systems and businesses understand that creativity is not a fanciful luxury.

Dreaming is easy. Starting?

Chongqing city, China, is about to get a giant Orwellian surveillance network of half a million cameras that will spy on (sorry, act to prevent crime in) areas like street intersections, parks and neighborhoods. Cisco is rumored to be one of the key pieces in the network supplying, basically, the networking tech itself--the grease that'll make the whole integrated shebang work