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Greetings from Austin, Texas. I’m at the annual South By SouthWest (SXSW) Interactive festival. I’m writing a follow up story about the Small Business Web which I described last March after SXSW 2010 as “a group of software companies whose programs are connected to each other via a set of communication channels

As an eco-fuel, hydrogen has numerous advantages, including clean emissions. Storing hydrogen, however, has been proven difficult and dangerous--until now. The Department of Energy has achieved a nanotech breakthrough that will allow for the safe storage and transport of hydrogen

Rats are trying out the device, a 250-gram scanner-in-miniature. Scanning technology and behavioral observation can now work in tandem

Plenty of people use their mobile devices to gather local information. But only 1% have paid for an app to do so. If the Internet has crippled local newsgathering in many regions, could smartphones and tablets bring it back

Hard to believe, but Twitter is already five years old. To commemorate the occassion, the site's creator and Twitter's former CEO, Jack Dorsey has been retelling the company's founding story (through his Twitter page , natch). Here's an early exchange with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone: me: Biz! How goes

The Groupon competitor joins Apple, Zynga, and Lady Gaga, among others, in seeking cash for relief efforts. Not long ago, Groupon came under fire for Super Bowl ads that appeared to make light of serious situations abroad. And even if Groupon had offered support for the very causes it appeared to poke fun at, the damage was done.

Big companies enter into joint ventures—new business entities created through business agreements—all the time. In fact, many large companies now rely on partnering up with other companies, especially smaller ones, as a way to innovate by outsourcing their research and development efforts. "Companies can't do it on their own anymore," says Dr

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today

Minimalist is the answer for Bare Escentuals. Fans completely drive the conversation on wall updates, discussion boards and with pictures.Bare Escentuals adopts a "hands-off" Facebook strategy, letting unsolicited testimonials from its nearly 200,000 fans drive traffic to Bare Escentuals boutiques and resellers. Customer feedback on Facebook even led to a redesign of the firm's product packaging, says chief marketing officer Simon Cowell: "We sell loose minerals, so customers wanted something more portable

The ongoing disaster in Japan is an unprecedented human tragedy.

Humorist and TED speaker Ze Frank tells FastCompany how his new startup can help save us from living our entire online lives in blue and white. Ze Frank, the performer and humorist who once won a Webby for his personal website, is a guy who is plainly awed at the oddity of human beings on the Internet. He says the blue-and-white sterility of our popular social networks--Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Foursquare--is threatening to choke out the messy, weird home-made kitsch once typified by MySpace pages and message boards

It's a quandary that every successful restaurateur faces: Do you stay fiercely loyal to your original location, a la chef Gabrielle Hamilton and Prune, the much-loved NYC restaurant she's been running since 1999? Or do you go the way of the Flays and the Batalis of the restaurant world, expanding your empire to include Vegas outposts, cookware, and a line of designer Crocs?

Last month, Nokia's new CEO Stephen Elop sent an e-mail to his staff, the contents of which would change the course of the company. In a candid, pointed missive, the Canadian executive said, "our platform is burning." Nokia's Symbian operating system had fallen far behind in the age of smartphones, which threatened Nokia's 200 million worldwide customers

Team builders to the smartest companies in tech, the founders of the Go Game are letting everyone play their coveted "textured scavenger hunt." HR managers rejoice. You might say that the Go Game , an iPhone game launching this week at SXSW , is the best-researched project in the history of location games. Founders Ian Fraser and Finnegan Kelly have spent the last 10 years running a hacked-together version of the game at corporate team-building events for Google , Apple , EA Games, Zynga , Facebook , Microsoft , and Intuit .

Wildcat Discovery Technologies , a San Diego-based startup, thinks it has made a discovery that could, in one fell swoop, make your laptop battery, cell phone battery, and electric vehicle batteries all last between 25% and 65% longer. The key: a pair of new materials---a high-voltage electrolyte material and a high voltage cathode material--that provide vastly improved energy density compared to today's technologies (in technical terms, they have an energy density of over 675 Wh/kg while operating in fuel cells at five volts).