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August is traditionally a slow news month for tech, but with its revised iPhone launch schedule Apple's still turning up plenty of rumors--along with fascinating hints at future Macs. Entirely New Product Line Japanese Mac site Macotakara is predicting Apple's got something surprising up its sleeve for the end of 2011: A completely new Mac product.

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A business is only as good as its people"and thats especially true for lean, fast-growing companies. Here's a look at seven dedicated workers from this year's Inc.

Here are a few strategies to jump-start your company's growth, increase revenues, and find new customers.

Every northern country is making territorial claims to land being exposed under melting ice, creating a truly cold new Cold War near the North Pole. If you don't believe that the Arctic ice cap is melting, ask the Russians about it.

In August 2005 the Shanghai Industrial Investment Corp. hired global engineering firm Arup to design a city for the booming commercial capital of China. Dubbed Dongtan --or "East Beach"--the new satellite city would sit on the edge of the alluvial island of Chongming in the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Skype Buys GroupMe For About $85 Million . Skype, in the midst of its deal with Microsoft, has acquired GroupMe for an estimated $85 million

Traffic in Guangzhou (as in all of China) used to be out of control. A new bus system with dedicated lanes and smarter route planning is starting to ease congestion

Special Issue: Cities The city is a solution to the problems of our age, and this week, we present it in the true urban spirit: best ideas forward

When we outsourced manufacturing to China and Japan and Taiwan, we may have lost something far more important than low-wage jobs.

Author Tina Rosenberg realized that while our common conception of peer pressure is negative, it can be used to drive people to improve their own behavior.

By Yuko Inoue and Julie Gordon TOKYO/TORONTO (Reuters) - Japanese manufacturers concerned about China's restrictive export quotas on essential rare earths may have found a way to resolve their supply concerns -- relocate production to China. [More]

BEIJING (Reuters) - ConocoPhillips China, a subsidiary of the Houston-based oil company ConocoPhillips, said on Friday that as much as 2,500 barrels of oil and mud leaked from an oilfield in China's northern Bohai Bay. A recent survey at the C platform of Penglai 19-3 oil field identified more oil-based drilling mud on the sea floor than originally estimated, the company said on its website (www.conocophillips.com.cn), adding that it expected to complete a cleanup by the end of this month.

Most people spend a major chunk of their waking hours at work, where often the boss looms large. Just how influential the boss is on an employee’s self-image might depend on culture, a study in the February 16 PLoS ONE reports

Intel, PayPal, Pepsico, Google, HP, Citi, and Microsoft are spending millions to plumb your mind. Here's how it's done.