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The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Bad News For AOL And Microsoft Beleaguered former dial-up king AOL continues to suffer, posting a $551 million revenue drop from a year ago--a whopping 17% decrease.

In this excerpt from his new book, Fixing the Game author Roger L. Martin examines what the NFL can teach the business world about managing expectations and how CEOs are rigging the game. Few people conceive of the world of business in terms of real and expectations markets

Foxconn, most famous as Apple's China-based manufacturer, has set out a stringent list of demands for Brazil to meet before it builds a $12 billion plant there. Rumors swirled for long while that Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai, was considering expanding its existing local business and opening a multi-billion dollar manufacturing facility in Brazil, with firmer data emerging only earlier this year

Sooner or later, every growing company reaches a point at which the entrepreneur behind it should start wondering whether he or she is the right person to be CEO. The answer has a lot to do with the company’s stage of development.

I run a market research firm with a virtual office. My two partners and I have 20 employees around the country.

With so many people using smartphones, everyone is searching for ways to reach would-be customers on mobile apps and websites. Here are three mobile-advertising services tailored for different business needs

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A Mountain Man Crusading editor and savvy publisher—Bil Dunaway somehow played both roles during 38 years at The Aspen Times. As editor, he turned the paper into a force for open government and better treatment of local employees. As publisher, Dunaway used the Times's monopoly of the local advertising market to amass a fortune that allowed him to buy or launch television, radio, and other newspaper properties in the region—and acquire real estate—as Aspen became a playground for the wealthy.

One morning last January, a franchisee of Nurse Next Door in Edmonton, Alberta, sent an e-mail to company headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia. John DeHart, Nurse Next Door's co-founder and co-CEO, clicked on a link in the message, which led to the website of Eldercare, a competing company based in Toronto

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Money Matters Jason Fried's article about making money [" How I Got Good at Making Money ," March] sparked a lively discussion on Inc.com.

"Oh, great! Another cupcake shop!" I hear these words as soon as I step onto M Street, the posh, townhouse-lined retail thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., and most lately the raging epicenter of the great American cupcake pandemic. I'm standing in front of an outpost of Sprinkles, a California cupcake chain that joined the fray just the week before.

"Oh, great! Another cupcake shop!" I hear these words as soon as I step onto M Street, the posh, townhouse-lined retail thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., and most lately the raging epicenter of the great American cupcake pandemic.

Right now I am staring at a message that has been haunting me for weeks, hovering dangerously at the top of my Gmail inbox.

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