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Want to make really smart decisions for your company? It's simple as looking into the future and assessing the data--a service that a few young companies dealing in "predictive analytics" are selling. Business swims in a sea of data.

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Once relegated to the domain of only large companies, business intelligence software is getting easier to implement by small and medium businesses that want to better analyze their data. People have been looking at data to bolster business since the beginning of, well, business. Go way, way back and a Roman sandal-clad street merchant 2,000 years ago might have noticed over time that he gets about a dozen more customers buying his wares on the days when he puts a canopy over his wagon as a shield from the hot midday sun.

Every entrepreneur makes mistakes when starting out. Some are fixable, some don’t matter that much in the long run. Some really bug you and can’t be fixed and you just have to learn to live with them for a while

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Foxconn's Huge Profit . Foxconn , maker of hardware for Apple and a number of peer computing firms, has reported $943 billion profits for the first half of 2011, a significant turnaround from its $218 million loss for all of 2010.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Samsung Reveals First AMOLED Tablet PC . Adding to its extensive, and lawsuit- mired Galaxy range Samsung just revealed the Galaxy Tab 7.7 at the IFA show

Google's digital marketing evangelist breaks down five steps to starting your company on the right web-analytics track. There are world-class analytics tools available for free from both Yahoo and Google that will get you more data than God ever intended you to have. Yet, perhaps shockingly, a vast majority of decisions website owners make are based on faith rather than data

IBM is testing a new system that--using just weather patterns and detailed maps--can accurately predict 100 hours of future river behavior. It's four days before a major flash flood will hit your local river

A new mobile analytics software installed on Americans' mobile devices is giving Nielsen a better way to gather metered data on how people use their smartphones. Nielsen Company, the group that has tracked and reported consumer information on radio, television, and the Web, has a new way of tracking what goes on in people’s mobile life

Last month we told you the best options for front office software. This month we asked the experts to weigh in on back office software to improve your business operations. Never have there been more software choices for the small business.

B2B companies have traditionally been laggards in social media , unlike their quick-adopting consumer counterparts. One reason is that B2B doesn’t facilitate the instant easy connections with customers or prospects that B2C can do so well

What happens when parent-travel website FamiliesGo! goes live. I have officially launched FamiliesGo! We decided we would open the site to the public on a Friday, so we’d have the weekend to let Google AdSense, the advertising placement service we’re using, come online and “acclimate” its ads to our content before publicizing on Monday

How often do you change your Facebook photo--and how do you measure up against the rest of the world? Okay, this Facebook post is about you. Let's conduct a little survey

The days of folders and filing are in the past. Heres why and how to simplify your business life by organizing it in the cloud, using Google products and more. When Michael Salvatore joined Bowery Lane Bicycles as chief officer of nearly everything, he set out to streamline their processes.

A social network with more privacy controls, Mark Zuckerberg's latest passion, a new ranking of top VC firms, and the rest of the day's entrepreneur news. Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today.