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NextGen Resume: It’s An Infographic

For most of the the thousands of college students getting their sheepskins this month, next month and the months to come will likely be a sobering entrance into the job market.

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Sell Your Business to an Advertiser

The story of how Peter Shankman, founder of HARO.com, sold his company to one of his largest advertisers Being a former PR guy , Peter Shankman has a deep Rolodex of friends and acquaintances. One day, a journalist friend asked Shankman if he knew an expert source for a story he was writing. Shankman sent the journalist's request to his database of e-mail addresses and was able to find an expert keen to be quoted for the story.

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Bing’s Social Search Won’t Always Rely On Facebook "Likes"

You can't visit a webpage these days without it begging for a compliment: Like us! Share us! Follow us! Social media promotion is one big reason why--just look at The Washington Post , for example, which seems intent on replacing its brand name with the Facebook logo, and barely refrained from slapping a "Like" badge on everything from its user agreement policy to its copyright acknowledgements. But viral promotion isn't the only reason. Increasingly, social media is impacting search-engine rankings.

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The Knee Bone’s Connected To The Smartphone

That's the future we envision, after seeing this Microsoft tech that projects what's going on underneath your skin, on top of your skin. One of the greatest health scourges of this country or any one isn't a bacterium, virus, or disease at all. Rather, it's a behavior--or, to put a finer point on it, a lack of a behavior.

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Business Plans by the Numbers

When writing a business plan, here's how to run the numbers that matter without getting hung-up on those that don't. Entrepreneurs are a courageous bunch—except when it comes to math. I've seen many notoriously tough senior executives shudder at the prospect of running financial projections for their business plans.

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Metaio Bets Augmented Reality On Tablets Is The Future

Metaio has just released Junaio 2.6, the latest version of its augmented reality "browser" for mobile devices, along with a plug-in for third-party app integration and a newly freshened-up mobile developer's kit called Unifeye.

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MoonPlayer Takes On Pandora, AirBnB Gets Cash Infusion, WNBC Goes 24/7, And More..

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Watch Out Pandora Pandora is great--until it foists upon you some lame, unknown artist totally out of left field. MoonPlayer , a sleek, easy-to-use free-streaming service, aims to fix that frustration by playing only artists you select.

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Netflix Owns The Evening Web

The streaming movie service has grabbed over 30% of Net traffic into U.S. homes during peak evening hours.

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