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You know it's important to say thank you. Here are some easy ways to express gratitude--and have it impact your bottom line

The founder of Milk has come a long way since his days as the "Dark Tipper" on Tech TV. As a well-known entrepreneur, Kevin Rose helped change the way we share news ( Digg ) and how we get tech video content online ( Revision3 ). Today, he is behind the popular review app with the quirky name, Oink .

Microsoft, Best Buy, and other tech giants are coming for you, armed with their best sales pitches. Get ready to negotiate. You may not know it, but you're a target sitting in the crosshairs of big technology vendors everywhere

Founder Scott Finkelstein is expanding NextLot, this week's Inc. 5000 applicant of the week, for the next generation of Web users. As we process applications for the 2012 Inc

If you think that PR is just about the press mention, think again. A great media campaign can actually make you money.

Last year, I received an email I will never forget: one of the world’s tobacco giants wanted me to consult for them. It’s not that I’m a stranger to requests from the tobacco industry. In fact, ever since I published Buyology in 2008, my email address appears to be on every tobacco executive’s Rolodex

To acquire a more positive attitude, all you really need is a more powerful vocabulary. Try these linguistic shifts.

No, not because Buffett said so. Because 2012 could be a year in which paying more now could mean paying less later

You can't stop really bad things--like Sept. 11th--from happening, but you can be prepared for them. Here are 7 ways.

It wasn't Abraham Lincoln's strengths but the self-discipline with which he put those strengths toward the right purpose. There is much we can learn by studying Abraham Lincoln's journey from being just another politician to becoming America's greatest president. (Wikipedia provides a compilation of "Historical rankings of Presidents of the United States" which makes it clear that in the eyes of many experts, and the public, Lincoln has consistently held this status)

Alpha Dog: Goes "Hi Ho," Romps Over Hills If you're any sort of fan of robotics, you'll know about Boston Dynamics' Big Dog and Alpha Dog--research prototype robots that will be used to inform the design of a genuine military support quadruped robot. Now DARPA has just taken Alpha Dog out into the wild to put it through some grueling tests: [youtube xY42w1w0TWk] The tests include hauling 400 pounds of cargo over 20 miles during a 24-hour window without needing refueling--exactly the sort of automated troop-following tasks that will make its military-grade offspring incredibly useful in what may be a surprisingly small number of years.

Two thousand years before smartphones, Plato suggested that excessive democracy would lead directly to tyranny, because sooner or later the majority will choose to trample the rights of the minority.

Social is one of the hottest trends in enterprise software, and many companies are considering rolling out products and services that make it easier for employees to share information with each other and communicate with customers and suppliers. Social software covers a lot of ground, but in general, products in this field enable people to share ideas and documents, find expertise and connect with colleagues, and communicate interactively with others. Gartner reports that “social software technologies as a whole are among the most hyped in the industry at the moment,” but is quick to warn companies that different social software technologies are “at different levels of maturity.” Meanwhile,

How do you create technology to recommend new channels to users? And when does a person need to step in to curate these recommendations?

I stopped asking my students to write essays years ago. When I required them, I was shocked to find nearly half of the papers had been plagiarized! These young college undergrads, studying entrepreneurship, could not understand why copying text from a Google search and pasting it into a paper as your own is wrong.