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These hackers could wreak havoc on your business.

These hackers could wreak havoc on your business. We infiltrated their ranks and studied their tactics

These hackers could wreak havoc on your business.

Sometimes leadership can involve a little sleight-of-hand. But when should you show off the rabbit you pulled out of the hat, and when should you tell everyone about all the hours of work needed to make it happen

From detergents to deodorizers, simple household items are sometimes blamed for making people feel sick. A California scientist decided to analyze dozens of them to see if there really is a problem.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Matter in the subatomic realm is, well, a different matter. In the case of strongly correlated phases of matter, one of the most surprising findings has to do with a phenomenon known as the Hall response – an important theoretical and experimental tool for describing emergent charge carriers in strongly correlated systems, examples of which include high temperature superconductors and the quantum Hall effect.

Having a hard time finding a technical founder in the Bay Area? Do what tech veteran Jason Johnson did and go hunting in China.

FedEx's response to one of its employees chucking a customer's computer monitor over a six-foot fence shows how your company should respond to a PR disaster. If you haven't seen it yet, here's a 21-second video that'll make your blood boil. And no, it's not a joke

What if you took a product, service, or company that only existed in an alternate reality--and then made it real? Thats the gist of reverse product placement.

Last year, the NBA banned start-up APL's innovative basketball shoes and sales took off. Now what? One afternoon last October , Adam Goldston met with his twin brother, Ryan, in their company's Beverly Hills, California offices to draw up marketing plans.

Gina Bianchini stepped down as CEO of Ning in 2010.

After 11 months and $550,000, they had gotten nowhere. Could they really gamble what was left on a hunch? Josh Levy and Ross Cohen left the offices of Beyond.com, a hiring website based outside Philadelphia, feeling like fools.

Vayable helps tourists get off the beaten path. Can this San Francisco start-up find its way beyond seed funding? The Pitch: "Vayable makes it easy to find unique things to do when you're traveling.

How do innovators and early adopters succeed in spreading new ideas, new tech, and even new seed corn? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series , a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from The Tipping Point (2000) by Malcolm Gladwell.

Another sci-fi dream deferred: Funding gave out before the six-year-old startup could perfect its futuristic three-wheeler. Electric car startup Aptera's futuristic three-wheeled two-seater won't be rolling off production lines anytime soon – the company has run out of gas. The company has failed to come up with enough money to produce the cars, reportedly raising only around $40 million of the $150 million it needed for a federal matching grant to keep operating.The grant would have let the company produce an all-electric four-wheel, five-passenger sedan that would have retailed for less than $30,000 – and employed some 1,400 workers in the manufacturing process